Brainflayer -

By the time you realize your fortress is gone, you’re standing over what’s left of your best friend’s memory — and smiling with its smile.

You don’t feel the invasion. You feel a headache behind your left eye. Then a dream you never dreamed — someone else’s childhood, humid and wrong. Then a voice that uses your own breath to speak. brainflayer

Here’s a short piece for — a dark fantasy / sci-fi horror concept, written as an atmospheric intro or flavor text. Title: The Second Skull By the time you realize your fortress is

They said the mind was a fortress. Stone walls of memory. Iron gates of will. But every fortress has a flaw — a seam where the wind gets in. brainflayer