"The Light Beyond" written by Scott Savino

In the premiere episode of Scott Savino’s Series of Grave Mistakes, a boy wakes in a dark sewer. He's disoriented, alone, and shin-deep in a black, viscous current beneath a city he doesn’t remember.

Ahead of him, a distant figure—a kid with a flashlight—moves through the tunnels with impossible speed, always just out of reach. As the boy follows, he begins to understand the sewers for what they truly are: the pulsing veins of something ancient that lives beneath the city... and he is not alone down there.

What begins as a desperate search for light becomes a recursive descent through identity, unreality, and something far worse than being lost.

This original short horror story blends cosmic horror, psychological dread, urban paranoia, and body horror into a narrative where every choice bleeds in only one direction.

► Written by Scott Savino, writer of queer horror and weird fiction author

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