Sub-basement: A Ghost Story

Catherine’s life is starting to come back together after a delusional breakdown landed her in a psych ward a year ago. Her boyfriend Ryan supported her through it all, and now she's started college and has a new job at a community clinic that resides in the ER of a creepy, abandoned hospital. But Catherine dreads the end of her shift when she has to drag the day’s trash bags through the gloomy corridors of the old hospital. Dreads the yawning darkness of the stairs to the basement. Dreads the black void that awaits her further below ground. In the sub-basement. When a photography opportunity beckons, she’s grateful for Ryan’s sweet, reassuring presence at her side as they explore the pitch-black rooms and corridors where it's said a serial killer spent the last years of his life. But somehow, once they leave the sub-basement, Ryan isn’t the same. Has the darkness followed them up, or–more frightening still–is Catherine losing her mind again? A Ghost Story is a novella of 30k words. If a trigger warning is something you need, you might want to consider skipping it.