Schema

A short work of literary horror.

A man dies in Sycamore Street.

In the immediate aftermath – and the years that follow – no two people remember the same dead person. The only thing they seem to agree on is the beige jacket he always wore.

Told through a series of interconnected vignettes, Schema explores how people shape each other through memory, rumour and repetition, and how guilt and imagination can harden into something that feels like a haunting.

This is not a traditional ghost story. There are no answers, no final reveal. Only the slow, unsettling realisation that the most powerful hauntings are authored by the living.

And once written, they can’t be erased.