Her Ghost Showers At Midnight

Moore shares a cheap apartment with Hannah, a gentle university senior who is finishing her thesis. For a week, deep-night showers and intimate moans have bled through the thin walls, wrecking his sleep before his soul-crushing corporate shifts. When he finally texts her about the noise, Hannah replies that she has been staying at the dorms and has not been home at all, suggesting a leak instead.

Returning after midnight drinks, Moore finds a charred ritual parchment on his welcome mat. Inside the dark apartment, the shower roars to life again, the moan follows, and the living room light flickers silently beneath his door. He grabs an aluminum baseball bat and bursts out, but the apartment falls instantly silent and the tub is bone dry.

Locking himself in, he sets a water glass against Hannah's locked door as a trap and waits, unable to sleep.