Martyr

No light. No air. No escape. [15-30 Minute Short Read]

In a dystopian metropolis where enforcers patrol in grim pairs and neighbours turn informant on every shadow of dissent, the sky hangs heavy with the unseen virus's claws. A bunting of tattered masks - stained with sweat and fear - snag like discarded freedoms in skeletal branches. A sixteen-year-old girl is sealed in her family's basement by her father, his paranoia inflamed by looped media psyops that twist truth into terror. Endless broadcasts drone, and headlines scream: "Stay inside or die - it's for your own good." In the dank, airless hollow below, her thoughts unravel against the weight of enforced entrapment. What was meant to protect twists into a cage of doubt and decay, where every breath questions what's real. Martyr is a bone-chilling descent into isolation and dread. Can she escape the grotesque tomb her father’s government-induced paranoia has forged?