Clara Wong’s writing appetite was voracious.
Nothing escaped her laptop.
Family drama.
Embarrassing moments.
Overheard quarrels.
Her friend, Mara, approached her with a devastating secret and a caveat —
“This stays between us.”
Clara agreed.
But…such a scintillating headline!
Mara’s secret couldn’t go to waste.
It could be —
Fiction.
A different name. A different place.
Same hurt. Same tension. Same drama.
Mara wouldn’t be the wiser.
She uploaded it.
Likes. Comments. Traction.
Guilt visited — only briefly.
Her next teaser —
“Ready for more?”
But the readers weren’t the ready ones.
Her laptop accessed private sites —
Voraciously.
It deleted entries.
Exposed private messages —
A secret confession.
Click. Fiction.
Shocked, she shut it.
The cursor jumped.
Clara had only seconds to stop the gobbling.
She tried to delete the story —
But the laptop became even more voracious.
Then, the cursor hovered, blinking.
Over Mara’s angst.
Then, she knew.
She deleted the wayward fiction.
The cursor waited, blinking.
Clara typed.
Her own story.
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
