There is nothing here—only ghosts and memories.
 
When Deirdre Ashlyn returns to the abandoned asylum where she once worked, she expects only silence and decay. But within the peeling walls and drifting dust, echoes of her past, and of one mysterious patient, come to life.
 
Brayden was a delusional old man who claimed to be a wizard trapped in the wrong world. His ramblings about magic, stories, and worlds born from imagination haunted Deirdre long after his death. Now, as she walks the empty halls of the asylum once more, she finds words written on the walls, passages from her own stories, and a presence waiting for her.
 
Has she stumbled into madness herself, or has she finally opened the doorway Brayden promised existed all along?
 
A haunting tale of creativity, belief, and the thin boundary between imagination and reality.
 
Recommended for fans of: Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman
 
2900 Words
 
Content Advisory – The Asylum Wall
 
Genre(s): Dark Fantasy • Supernatural Mystery • Psychological Horror
 
Age Guidance: 15+ – eerie atmosphere, death themes, and psychologically intense scenes
 
Content Ratings (Wolf Paw Scale: 0–5)
Language: [no paws] — none
Sexual Content: [no paws] — none
Violence: 🐾🐾 — non-graphic death; mild physical threat
Dark Themes: 🐾🐾🐾 — ghosts, psychological tension, mental illness, death, and crossing worlds
 
A haunting, introspective tale that blends supernatural mystery with psychological unease. Readers should be prepared for themes of death, mental health, and liminal reality.