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Paintings on the Walls

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Aug 16, 2025

Day 6.

Honestly I don’t know why I’m labeling these entries like this. I can’t see the sun, since it’s always dark outside this dreaded hallway, so I have no real way of telling time. No real way of knowing how long I’ve been here. How much longer I’ll be here. 

Maybe I’ll be here forever. 

Maybe I’ll never escape.

Maybe I’ll just be stuck here

With these creepy paintings

Until

I

Go

INSANE.


.


I tried walking as far as I could in one direction through the hallway to see if I could find the end, another door, maybe a way out, but.

All I found was a wall.

A.

FCKING.

WALL.


Not even a door. No. That I could deal with. That I could hope with.

No.

A wall.

So I tried going the other way as well.

Another wall.

I tried the windows.

Locked.

I tried to find something to break the windows with.

Nothing.

Just another fcking key.

It doesn’t even open any of the rooms.

And I know cause I tried.

I tried all of them.

One by one.

But nothing opened.


So I got mad and I broke one of the lamps off the walls. Hoping I could break the windows with that.

And

The 

World

Went

Dark.


I know I said the air was dark before, but it’s so much darker now. It’s cold. The painting’s expressions have all changed. Before the lights in their eyes just went out. They still smiled. Still used beguiling words to taunt me. 

But no.

Not now.

Now their painted faces have been contorted into scowls,

Their eyes gone even colder,

Their whispers are angry and full of menace.


The creatures are angier, too. I can feel it in the walls. I’ve done something bad. I’ve messed up. And it’s dark.

So dark.

And it’s taking much longer for the lights to come back on.

.


I’m scared.


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just a silly little short horror/liminal-space-ish story i made for my creative writing club :p
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