Quiet Ones

A Deadly Silence Short Story

De: Sara Lea

Narrado por: Sarah Dodge

Welcome to Deadly Silence, a multi-author collection of chilling short stories where every pause hides a threat. Crafted to make your pulse quicken and your nerves tighten, these thrillers and light horror tales uncover the terror that lurks in the quiet, waiting to be noticed—or ignored.

Silence is the first rule of the group home.
No running. No shouting. No sudden movement. And never, ever touch the doll.

On her first night as a caretaker, Emily Richards is warned about one resident in particular—a small, unfailingly polite girl who never raises her voice and never lets go of the heavy, antique doll she carries everywhere. The staff speak of her in careful tones. One of the quiet ones. The relief behind their smiles feels rehearsed.

But soon, it becomes evident that something more is going on.

Floors bow under invisible pressure. Doors refuse to open. Furniture grinds toward the girl’s room when emotions run too high. Emily realizes the truth the institution has buried under paperwork and rules: Lily isn’t being protected from the world. The world is being protected from her.

When the doll is taken away, restraint fails.

QUIET ONES is a slow, suffocating horror novel about suppressed power, institutional cruelty, and the terrifying cost of demanding silence from children who are holding gravity itself at bay.

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