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The gargoyles returned to Fr Primwell, coursing the moonlit skies with triumphant wings.
One of them, Clutch of the Grotesque Claw, had a sombre announcement.
“Perchwick is dead.”
Fr. Primwell’s heart sank. Perchwick —
Morally —
Lifeless.
Clutch let out a dramatic sigh.
“The townspeople have started —
Dying.
The very thing you are afraid of, Father.”
They wanted Perchwick administratively —
Alive. Mortality needed correction.
Dead torches were replaced.
Candles were relit.
Rewound watches ticked.
Death lived.
Another successful Gargoylian campaign.
But Fr Primwell sighed.
The good priest nodded in resigned understanding.
They hadn’t defeated death —
Merely erased it temporarily.
Mortality still needed convincing.
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.
