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Secret Bloom, St John (2026)

29/05/2026

The first time I realized something was wrong with this world… was during a company first-aid training session.
The instructor pointed at the human body model and said:
“Remember, human blood is blue. It only gradually turns red after it comes into contact with oxygen in the air.”
At first, I thought he was joking.
But when I saw everyone else nodding seriously and writing it down, I couldn’t help but raise my hand.
“Excuse me, sir. Did you make a mistake? Blood is always red.”
The instructor and all my colleagues turned to look at me like I was a freak.
He frowned, flipped open the training manual, and showed it to me. On the white page with black text, it clearly stated:
“Blood is blue.”
I was stunned into silence.
I quickly pulled out my phone and searched it. The results were exactly the same as what was in the manual.
My colleague Jessica quietly tugged at my sleeve and whispered with a worried look:
“Have you been overworking yourself lately? How could you forget something so basic?”
I didn’t know how to answer her.
Under everyone’s strange stares, I forced a smile and said I was just joking.
As soon as the training ended, I rushed straight to the bathroom.
Gritting my teeth, I used a safety pin to prick the tip of my finger.
Bright red blood immediately welled up.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
My memory wasn’t wrong.
I still didn’t understand what was happening… but these people were clearly playing a sick, elaborate prank on me.
Just as I was about to leave, I overheard two colleagues talking outside.
“Sarah was so funny today, claiming that blood is always red.”
“Yeah. What a coincidence — my gums are bleeding right now. I almost wanted to call her over to see.”
I secretly peeked through the gap in the bathroom stall door.
My colleague smiled in front of the mirror, using a tissue to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth.
On her pale white teeth…
A line of blue blood was slowly turning red.

This was probably the first time I had ever seen blue blood on a human being.
I was so horrified that I instinctively covered my mouth, not daring to make a sound.
They weren’t wrong.
I wasn’t wrong either.
So… where exactly was the mistake?
I waited a long time after they left, making sure the bathroom was empty, before quietly slipping out.
As I walked through the office, everything that should have felt familiar now felt terrifyingly alien.
Because I had realized I was different from them.
I feared I was an outsider — a freak in this world.
Back at my desk, my direct supervisor, Mr. Thompson, quickly called me into his office.
“I heard you haven’t been resting well lately. Is the pressure getting to you?”
I knew what he was implying, but I didn’t have the courage to admit the truth.
Deep down, I felt that being seen as “different” was not a good thing.
I brushed it off with a few vague words, insisting it was just a joke and that I didn’t expect everyone to take it seriously.
Thankfully, Mr. Thompson didn’t press further. He just smiled politely and told me to take better care of myself.
That night, I locked all the windows and the front door, drew the curtains, lit a scented candle, and went to bed early.
I hoped this was all just a dream, my own imagination. I hoped that when I woke up, everything would return to the world I remembered.
But I stayed awake until 3 a.m., becoming more and more certain that I wasn’t the one with the problem.
So what the hell was going on?
I got out of bed, opened my laptop, and searched about blood again. The results were the same as during the day.
No — it wasn’t just the same. I made even more shocking discoveries.
The introduction for the Empire State Building said it was a symbolic landmark in downtown Manhattan, completed long before the 2008 Olympics.
I searched for “One World Trade Center.” The images that appeared were three strange buildings I had never seen before, called the “Financial Triad Towers.”
I searched for the “Hudson River,” and the result showed “the river flowing through Newark.”
I slammed the laptop shut, breathing heavily.
This was insane.
At the same time, I confirmed that this world was definitely not the one I was familiar with.
However, I didn’t say anything out loud.
When I posted online expressing doubts about all of this, I quickly received two replies:
[OP should go see a doctor.]
[OP didn’t escape from somewhere, did they?]
The second reply immediately served as a warning.
I was not from this world. To me, this might be more than just shocking.
If I recklessly exposed myself, it could bring real danger.
So I immediately deleted the post and began disguising myself in daily life.
I tried hard to act like a “normal” person.
At the same time, I carefully observed everything in this world.
Fortunately, aside from a few basic facts that differed from my memory, I hadn’t yet found anything that seriously affected my daily life.
This made me breathe a little easier. Maybe my earlier worries were unnecessary.
But three days later, the first-aid instructor returned to our company.
He handed out a test sheet to everyone, instructing us not to discuss and to submit it directly once finished. He said it was to evaluate the training results.
At first, I didn’t think much of it — until a long-time employee muttered:
“We’ve had this training for years, but this is the first time we’ve had to take a test.”
My heart skipped a beat.
Was this aimed at me?
I secretly glanced at my colleague’s paper.
Cold sweat instantly broke out on my back.
Everyone else’s questions were standard first-aid knowledge.
Mine were different.
The first question: What color is human blood?
The second question: What color is a newborn baby’s hair when they are born?..
I quickly realized I was being watched.
I didn’t know what this meant, but my instincts told me it was nothing good.
Suppressing the trembling in my fingers, I calmly wrote down “blue” and “white.”
When I handed in the test, the instructor looked at me meaningfully but said nothing.
I wasn’t sure if I had passed or not, but I knew that from now on, I had to be even more careful with every single moment.

The next day at lunch, I went with a few colleagues to a new restaurant near the office.
Everything that had happened recently made me unconsciously more sensitive to my surroundings.
That’s why I quickly noticed a man in a gray coat sitting alone at a table diagonally behind us.
I had a vague feeling I had seen him on the subway that morning.
Right now, there was a single meal in front of him, but he wasn’t touching it. He kept staring at his phone.
I picked up my own phone and used the screen as a mirror, pretending to touch up my makeup while watching him.
Within less than a minute, he looked up three times — each time “accidentally” glancing at me in an eerily precise way.
I knew it in my gut. He was here for me.
I didn’t confront him. I pretended not to notice, finished eating, and left with my colleagues.
In the afternoon, I made several excuses to go down to the convenience store on the ground floor. As expected, I “coincidentally” ran into him each time.
When it was time to leave work, I stood at the entrance of the office building, hesitating.
Should I take a taxi home to shake him off?
Should I follow my usual route and accept his “coincidental” company?
Or should I walk straight up and ask him what the hell he wanted?
I wasn’t fearless, but deep down, I desperately wanted to understand what was happening.
So I made a bold decision.
Instead of taking the main road home as usual, I turned into the narrow alleys of the old neighborhood where I used to rent an apartment.
After turning at three intersections, I slipped into a convenience store, ordered some hot food, and openly sat by the floor-to-ceiling window to wait.
The path leading down from the store was a dead-end alley.
The only resident there was my former landlord.
So I just needed to wait for the man in the gray coat to turn back — and I would have him cornered.
No matter what excuse he gave, there would be no way to explain why he was following me.
So far, neither the instructor nor the man in the gray coat had confronted me directly, which meant they still didn’t want to do anything to me yet.
That was my biggest trump card — I was still safe.
But after the man in the gray coat walked past the store window, I waited for a long time… and he never came back.
The sky grew dark. I stood outside the convenience store in surprise, staring down the right side of the alley.
The dead-end alley was quiet and empty. Only the streetlights had automatically turned on, casting their glow on the weathered stone walls and the ground.
The man in the gray coat had vanished, as if he had never existed.
At that moment, I once again felt a chill run down my spine.

25/05/2026

The Last Bus Ticket
For twelve years, I cut my father out of my life completely.
After my mother died, he became distant and started drinking. On the day I left for university, we had a big fight and I swore I would never return to Montana.
Last week, the hospital called:
“Your father had a severe stroke. He’s asking for you.”
When I arrived, he pointed to the drawer beside his bed. Inside was an old faded bus ticket from the exact day I left home twelve years ago, along with a worn notebook.
In that notebook were 214 entries — one for almost every long-distance trip he drove over the past twelve years.
What I read in the final entry made me break down in tears beside his bed.
For twelve years, while I thought he didn’t care, my father had been carrying my memory on every lonely mountain road he drove.
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25/05/2026

For twenty-three years, I was ashamed of my mother because she worked as a street cleaner.
I distanced myself from her, moved abroad, and barely called. I sent her money but never visited.
Last winter, I received the call:
“Your mother had a serious accident. Come home quickly.”
When I rushed to the hospital, she pointed weakly to the cabinet and whispered:
“Top drawer… red scarf…”
Inside was a beautiful, long red scarf she had knitted by hand — and a diary.
She had knitted one row every single night for 23 years.
8,412 rows in total.
When I read her diary entries, I broke down crying beside her bed. My mother had been quietly pouring her love into that scarf every night, even when I abandoned her.
The final entry she wrote before the accident left me completely shattered.
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22/05/2026

The Empty Coffee Mug
For nine years, I ghosted my older brother Matthew after failing in business and owing him a lot of money. Out of shame, I changed my number and disappeared from his life.
Last Friday, I received a package with no return address. Inside was his old blue coffee mug — the one he used every morning — and a letter.
When I read that letter, I collapsed on the floor, crying uncontrollably.
For nine years, while I was avoiding him, my brother had been drinking coffee from that mug every single day, thinking about me. He had been secretly following my life and preparing something for me before he passed away.
The truth he left behind completely shattered my heart.
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21/05/2026

The Last Row Seat
For ten years, I abandoned my father after he remarried.
I felt replaced. I got angry, said cruel things, and never looked back. I built my own family in Chicago and never invited him to my wedding or let him meet his grandson.
Last Sunday, I received the call:
“Your father had a stroke. He keeps calling your name.”
When I rushed to the hospital, my stepmother gave me an envelope my father had prepared.
Inside was a old graduation ticket… and a letter that made me fall to my knees crying.
For ten years, while I thought he had forgotten me, my father had been sitting in the last row at every important moment of my life — watching silently from a distance.
The truth he left behind completely shattered my heart.
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21/05/2026

The Midnight Library
For fourteen years, I never spoke to my mother again.
After a huge fight on my high school graduation night, I called her controlling and left our small town for New York. I built a successful life as an editor, but deep down I never forgot the pain.
Three days ago, I received the call:
“Emma, your mother passed away from cancer. She didn’t want us to tell you until the end.”
When I returned to our old house, I found a note from her leading me to a hidden room in the attic — a secret midnight library.
Inside were hundreds of books I once dreamed of reading… and a thick journal filled with letters she wrote to me every month for fourteen years.
When I opened her final letter and read what she had been hiding all this time, I collapsed on the floor, sobbing uncontrollably.
My mother had been secretly watching over my life for fourteen years while I thought she hated me.
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20/05/2026

The Empty Swing in the Garden
We were twin sisters — inseparable since birth.
But after our parents’ divorce, one terrible fight on our 21st birthday tore us apart. For nine long years, Amelia and I never spoke again. No calls. No messages. Complete silence.
Three days ago, I received the message I never wanted to hear:
“Sophia, come home quickly. Amelia has stage four breast cancer. She doesn’t have much time left.”
I drove 28 hours without stopping. When I saw my twin sister lying weak in the hospital bed, something deep inside me broke.
I brought her home and cared for her every day. Yesterday, while she was sleeping, I walked into our old childhood garden. The wooden swing our father built for us when we were six was still there.
Hanging above the swing, hidden on the tree branch, I found a small waterproof box.
Inside was a thick notebook and a sealed letter addressed to me… written just before she got sick.
When I opened that letter and started reading, I fell to my knees in tears. I never imagined what my sister had been hiding from me for nine years.
The truth inside that box completely shattered my heart.
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20/05/2026

The Last Lantern on the Pier
For seven years, I hated my father.
After Mom died, he became a stranger — cold, silent, and distant. Every single night he would walk to the old pier behind our house in Maine, light a lantern, and stare into the dark ocean for hours. I asked him many times why he did it. He only ever answered: “Some things a man has to carry alone, son.”
At 19, I left home and never looked back. I built a new life in Boston. The only message I received from him every year on my birthday was: “The lantern is still burning.”
Last month, the hospital called.
“Your father has late-stage lung cancer. He’s been refusing treatment. He wants to see you before he dies.”
I drove through the storm back to Maine with anger and guilt burning in my chest. When I found the old lantern still lit on the pier that night, I discovered something hidden beneath it.
A small metal box.
Inside were dozens of letters written to me over the past seven years… and a truth about my family that completely shattered everything I thought I knew.
I sat on the cold wooden pier, reading the final letter with tears streaming down my face, unable to believe what my father had been hiding from me all this time.
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18/05/2026

The Crimson Canvas

I used to live in a permanent whirlwind of million-dollar auctions and heavy art insurance contracts in downtown Manhattan. The only thing that defined my existence was valuation numbers, fake high-society galas, and endless transatlantic flights. Twelve years ago, my older brother—a genius painter—abruptly perished in a studio fire, leaving a gaping void in our family. I chose to bury myself in work to escape the grief, unintentionally cutting off contact and abandoning my aging father, an antique art restorer, to live in complete isolation for three long years in a small town in Tuscany, Italy.

Last night, I woke up to a violent storm shaking my high-rise window, when my phone buzzed aggressively. It was a call from my father’s lifelong housekeeper, her voice choking through tears: “Leo, you need to catch the earliest flight to Italy immediately! Your father just suffered a stroke following an armed break-in at the studio, and he is in critical condition!” My face turned white. I flew across the ocean in the dead of night, racing to the old stone villa in the Italian countryside. When I saw my father laying frail in the hospital bed, covered in bruises and gasping for breath, my heart ripped through my chest.

I decided to stay at the ancient estate to care for him and clean up the restoration studio, which had been completely ransacked by the intruders. This morning, while moving a massive, slashed oil painting off the floor, my heel struck an unusual crack in the antique terracotta tiles. I knelt down, pried open the loose brick, and pulled out a rustic, leather-bound wooden box my father had hidden beneath the ground. On the lid was his rugged handwriting, carved hastily years ago: "For Leo. The truth about that fateful night."

When I popped the latch and saw what my father had been hiding from me all this time… my heart completely stopped. It wasn’t old family photos or my brother's old paintbrushes; it was a sketch drawn in blood, exposing the face of the arsonist from twelve years ago—a powerful figure whom the entire global art world currently worships. I still can’t believe the deadly secret my father carried all alone to protect my life while I abandoned him to chase fame and fortune.

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17/05/2026

The Heavy Steel Locker Beneath the Sub-Level Reactor Floorboards

I lived in a permanent whirlwind of international nuclear infrastructure projects in downtown Chicago. The only thing that defined my existence was automated cooling algorithms, midnight emergency reactor logs, and cold takeout boxes. Ten years ago, my mother passed away from a sudden laboratory accident, leaving a gaping void in our family. I chose to bury myself in thermal programming to escape the grief, unintentionally pushing my aging father, Arthur—a retired nuclear safety inspector—completely out of my world for three long years, leaving him alone in our old family estate near a decommissioned research reactor in the plains of Illinois.
Last night, I woke up to a violent storm shaking my high-rise window, when my phone buzzed aggressively. It was my father's former lead technician, his voice filled with panic. “Ethan, you need to catch the next flight home! A freak lightning strike just triggered a massive thermal runaway in the old sub-level core, and your father ran into the lower pressure vault to manually open the emergency coolant valves! But the automatic blast doors just jammed shut!” My face turned white. I boarded a private emergency medical charter immediately in the dead of night, racing against a literal fourteen-second countdown before a localized core meltdown.

When I arrived at dawn, my heart ripped through my chest. The main control room's electronic overrides were completely fried, trapping my father in the suffocating, scorching vault below. The primary automated coolant valve switch was broken, and the room was filled with toxic steam. Suddenly, through a tiny six-inch drainage pipe near the base of the wall, I saw a flash of silver fur. It was Pip, a stray ferret my father had rescued from the facility's outer fields years ago and allowed to nest in the maintenance tunnels.Inside the sparks-showering pressure vault, the temperature was rising exponentially. Pip refused to let his savior burn. Despite the drainage tunnel being filled with blinding steam and scalding water, the agile ferret used his flexible body to navigate the tight wiring conduits behind the main panel. He gripped a severed emergency bypass wire with his teeth and dragged it three feet through a narrow gap, jamming the copper end directly into the secondary power terminal. The manual coolant valves roared open just 3 seconds before the pressure would have breached the core.

This morning, while my father was recovering from smoke inhalation in the local medical wing, Pip slipped into my jacket pocket, his sleek fur slightly singed from the heat. He dropped a heavy, unique steel locker key from his mouth directly into my hand—a key he had scavenged from a hidden floor cavity beneath the primary coolant tank during the chaos. I recognized the security emblem stamped on the metal; it belonged to a heavy steel locker my father had kept bolted deep under the sub-level floorboards for decades.
When I unlocked that hidden locker and saw what experimental clean-energy patents and personal letters my father had been hiding from me all this time… my heart stopped. I still can’t believe the secret he kept while I was away.

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