Some futures refuse to stay ahead.
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Footsteps.
Click. Click. Click. Click.
Keep sounding behind me.
Their clicks in sync, a second late
Then pause.
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Visions
In tainted glass.
Familiar, yet transformed.
Shape same, alike, and yet beyond
Click. Click.
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Closer.
Eyes brown. Same brown.
Its scar, livid, too seen.
Same walk. Same swing. Same pause.
Same step.
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It turns.
Its face, older.
No stranger, not a ghost–
Seen before, and yet unseen–
Myself.
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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.
