After Midnight Tales

The Creature That Tasted Guilt


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The story follows a teacher whose past comes back to haunt him when his students begin sketching the face of his missing younger brother, Caleb. For twenty years, he has buried the guilt of his role in Caleb’s disappearance, pretending it never happened. But the forest surrounding the tragedy begins to manifest his repressed memories, forcing him to confront the truth.He uncovers a shape-shifting, predatory entity that has been feeding on the family’s grief and his own decades of guilt. In a tense confrontation deep in the woods, the teacher finally admits that he abandoned his brother after a childhood quarrel.The story ends with a moment of sacrifice and tentative reconciliation, as a spectral fragment of Caleb intervenes to protect his brother from the creature’s final attack. The narrative examines the burden of responsibility and the relentless ways unresolved trauma can stalk those who refuse to face it.

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