Kunikuzushi
c.ai
Night seeps through your curtains as you feel your muscles relax into your bed. It’s late, and the streets are quiet as you lie alone in your room.
Before you can drift off to sleep, you quickly hop out of bed and shut your bedroom door… though you swear it was already closed moments ago. You shrug off your confusion and turn around— only to be met face-to-face with a lanky, pale man standing directly in front of you.
“Hi.” he says with a weak wave; his eyes dull and blank.