She liked the silence. Until the screams came.Janey lived a quiet, careful life. The kind of life where nothing unexpected ever happened-and that was just how she wanted it.Until Lucy and her mother moved in across the hall.They brought noise. Shadows. Something wrong.One night, Janey hears Lucy scream-and watches her being dragged into the apartment. But when she tries to get help, there's a problem: No one else remembers Lucy.No one else believes she ever existed.As Janey digs deeper, reality begins to slip. The lines blur between memory and madness, between what's real and what's hiding behind the walls.Who can she trust-when she can't even trust herself?A chilling psychological thriller of gaslighting, buried trauma, and the horrors that hide in plain sight This is a version of the short story published in "Beneath and Lies and Ashes" From the Author of "The Mind of Madness"