The Wistful Asylum

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The whispering was not a sound so much as a pressure, a low hum in the back of the throat that grew heavier with every hour of the night shift, pressing against the eardrums until the silence of the empty east wing felt less like absence and more like a held breath. I stood at the reception desk, the ledger of patient admissions open before me, its pages yellowed and brittle, the ink of the...

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