THE WIFE YOU LEFT
His eyes met mine for a brief moment, and what I saw there shook me to my core: a plea for death, for release.
Cell after cell, the sights grew unbearable. One woman was clawing at her own skin, her nails bloody, her movements frantic and unhinged. Another man sat slumped against the bars, his face mutilated beyond recognition. The floor of his cell was littered with teeth, his or someone else’s, I couldn’t tell.
The sounds were relentless: sobbing, screams, the clinking of chains, and the low moans of those too broken to resist anymore. It was a symphony of suffering, the kind of noise that gets under your skin and stays there, echoing in your mind long after the silence returns.
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