A curious student uncovers the identity of the mysterious figure restoring his town’s walls before sunrise
“Vandals! Our town’s not their art gallery!” Mayor George Sketch scanned the drawing-filled walls.
He had to find the graffiti addicts before Artisol flooded with unsmiling Mona Lisas.
But residents woke each morning to find artwork —
Missing.
Nosy student John Looks was curious to know who the unwanted artist was. He stayed up through the night.
And waited.
A lone figure materialised.
John’s eyes stayed glued to the figure as it swiped the graffiti purposefully.
The morning light fell on the person’s surprisingly familiar form.
Artisol’s mayor.
Mayor Sketch.
He glanced at the art on the walls and lifted his thinner-soaked sponge.
George Sketch, sincere yet distinguished politician, with ordinary clothes and rolled-up sleeves.
Sketch glanced at Looks and blushed, sheepish.
“ They — “he pointed to the walls — “were dirty.”
John Looks grinned and looked up. To him.
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.