What disappears does not always depart.
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My phone beeps.
The screen lights up.
Back—
forth.
Up—
down.
No post.
But my phone
recalls.
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Flash.
Flash.
Reminders.
I scroll
Past.
They used to jab .
Now-
Stirring.
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The room-
Floods with them.
Dad’s laugh – cut off.
His sobs – unlear.
I sit–
Not moving.
Back–
Forth.
Up–
Down.
ðŸ’ðŸ’
Reminders.
Flash.
Flash.
He walks.
Into the space.
With me.
And lingers.
ðŸ’ðŸ’
Original poem by Michelle Liew Tsui-lin. AI tags are coincidental.
Mirrors of the Mind by Michelle Liew is a collection of psychological and supernatural short stories that explore the quiet unease beneath ordinary moments. These are not tales of spectacle, but of subtle fracture — where memory distorts, silence speaks, and the self is not always singular. In these stories, what is unseen often carries the greatest weight, and what lingers is not what is shown, but what is felt.
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