The seven shrouds

His wide eyes were fixed on the screen in front of him as he watched what was happening on it in amazement that gradually turned into terrifying shock, causing his mouth to gape and his throat to dry, and his whole body to turn into a cold, scared statue. But the strange thing was that the film shown on the television in front of him was not frightening in itself, on the contrary, it was an ordinary social drama with nothing to scare. Only that all the characters seemed as if they were talking about him, in a way he initially thought was skillful simulation of imagination to reality, until those characters started talking to him, not just about him, looking directly at him, responding to what was running through his mind, and reacting with terrifying accuracy to every movement or sound he made, as if they saw him exactly as he saw them. Author: Al-Shimha Al-Sayoufi Number of pages: 152