This piece is inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which is about the mental decline of an anonymous narrator who is confined to a nursery by her physician husband under the guise of "treatment" for her nervous depression. As her imprisonment continues, the narrator shows an increasing obsession with the yellow paper on the wall. She ends up liberating herself only when she pulls the paper off. My story is an imagined sequal to Gilman's work, exploring how the narrator haunts a new version of herself, emphasising the cyclicality of women's treatment in the medical sphere.

Before history claimed him -- he was hers.