Prompt: Complete exhaustion
Card: 9 of Swords from The Art of Adventure Tarot
It was three days ago.
I heard faint whispering while I started a load of laundry. It was subtle, I assumed it was just the neighbor chatting away on the phone again.
For some reason, I had trouble sleeping that night.
Yesterday morning, while in the shower, I heard a delicate voice while I rinsed my hair. I could almost feel a cold breath blow over my neck as the words seeped through the tattered shower curtain.
Another restless night.
An hour after I went to bed, the voice started up again. Louder than ever and coming from the closet…
A Six Word Story inspired by the prompt and card:
“The faceless voices kept growing louder.”
8 of Swords... ?