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The Night Orderly (Part One)
Nobody remembers hiring him. The paperwork is perfect, which is how I knew it was fake. He arrives at midnight, mops until three, and the floor is still dry in the morning.
Ward 02
Story Ward
Tales, fragments and things that should stay in the dark.
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The records room. Every file in here is a story, a fragment, or a confession that got out of hand. Some are finished. Some are still pacing the halls.
Read them in order or at random. The archive below is pulled from the ward database, newest first.
From the Reading Room
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The Night Orderly
File type: short story
He mops the same corridor every night. The floor is never wet, and the footprints never lead out.
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Room 217½
File type: fragment
The building has 216 rooms. The elevator button for the other one is warm.
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What the Intercom Said
File type: flash fiction
It only ever says one sentence, and it is always your name.
The Archive
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Room 217½: A Fragment
The lift lists floors one through six. Someone has scratched a small seven into the paint, and underneath it, quietly: not for visitors.
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Letters to the Night Shift
Dear whoever is reading this at 3 a.m., Please stop turning the lights off. We both know I did not leave them on.