“Standing outside was a bald man in a black suit. A smile split his face, and a perfect row of teeth glinted under the hallway light’s fluorescent glow. Stapled to his eyes were squares of gauze, and Katie noticed, as her throat grew dry and coarse, that he had no tongue. She saw the severed flesh bobbing around behind his perfectly straight teeth.”

– The Peephole Man, Dream of Shadows, August 2022