Jun 11, 2026 · 23 min · 7 segments
*The Study of Quiet Things is a serialised gothic folk-horror mystery, written & narrated by Harriet Loveluck.* **In Today's Episode:** **Chapter 2** - Small Village Horrors - Blog Post 1 **Chapter…
Honestly, I can't remember the first time I noticed.
It kind of crept into my mind and veins slowly like poison.
And now it's all I see, all I feel, all there is.
It's darkness.
Like a heavy cloud of something pressing down on the outside and swelling up from within all at the same time.
It's unbearable.
And the weird thing is, I think I recognise it in others.
In the way they look at me.
The hollow behind their eyes.
School has become some sort of funeral work.
Nobody has really recovered from what happened here two years ago.
Not that anyone was ever happy in this shitty little excuse for a school before, but now there's something else behind the gloom and suppression of this small-town consciousness.
Before, there was hopelessness.
Now, there is only silent despair, and nobody will talk about it.
Honestly, I can't remember the first time I noticed.
It kind of crept into my mind and veins slowly like poison.
And now it's all I see, all I feel, all there is.
It's darkness.
Like a heavy cloud of something pressing down on the outside and swelling up from within all at the same time.
It's unbearable.
And the weird thing is, I think I recognise it in others.
In the way they look at me.
The hollow behind their eyes.
School has become some sort of funeral work.
Nobody has really recovered from what happened here two years ago.
Not that anyone was ever happy in this shitty little excuse for a school before, but now there's something else behind the gloom and suppression of this small-town consciousness.
Before, there was hopelessness.
Now, there is only silent despair, and nobody will talk about it.
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