A cheap, tidy flat with only one unsettling condition from the letting agent: never open the attic door. At first he brushes it off, but the strange warning begins to gnaw at him. Intrusive thoughts grow into fixation, and his life slowly unravels under the weight of curiosity.

A princess, tormented by the prison of her own mind, seeks out Nestor, the magician of memories, begging him to mend what's broken so as to be whole again. For a fleeting moment, she tastes the sweetness of life she always dreamed of, until the dream curdles and she collapses into a nostalgia far crueler than the pain she tried to escape.

Finn, a man battling depression in a remote cabin, hears a bear cub crying in the winter woods and ventures out to rescue it. But when the ice beneath them shatters, he plunges into freezing waters, trapped between hallucination and reality. Just as he’s ready to surrender, the cub’s mother appears, saving him. Through this encounter, Finn discovers a flicker of hope he thought he’d lost.

Sometimes life feels hard, but please ask for help. Nothing is lost.

An alarm sounded at the wrong time, but the right moment.

Sophie is not ready to face the day. She has to face possibly the hardest task of her life, saying goodbye to her best friend, Amy.

In the heart-wrenching yet ultimately uplifting mini-novella, The Echoes of Laughter, we follow John's extraordinary journey through the tumultuous landscape of mental illness, loss, and the enduring power of human connection. From the tender age of one, when his father's tragic passing casts a long shadow over his life, to his present day at 35, where he stands on the precipice of newfound hope and self-acceptance, John's story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.