Weight of Silence

Some secrets stay buried. Others wait for someone to press play.In 1989, Thomas Whitlock has built a quiet life upon an old silence. Then an unexpected videotape arrives.There is no explanation for who sent it or why it has appeared now. But what Thomas sees recorded on the tape reaches into a part of his past he has spent years trying to forget.Soon, unfamiliar headlights begin appearing in his rearview mirror. Questions he thought were long forgotten return with unsettling precision, and the ordinary road home becomes a tightening passage through paranoia, guilt, and dread.Someone knows what happened.Someone has been waiting.And whatever began with the videotape is far from over.The first book in Nova Nightwood's Obscura Archive, The Weight of Silence is a dark psychological short horror story about buried secrets, unseen watchers, and the dangerous belief that the past can remain silent forever.Length: 10 pages