Lighting the Candle

When the rain refuses to stop for seven days straight in Mountain City, reality begins to unravel. A girl vanishes into living mud. Wax figures walk away from their pedestals. A portrait that cannot burn no matter the flame. One by one, the impossible becomes inevitable, and neither the living nor the dead are safe from what's awakening. In a world where ghostly power knows no bounds but only a chosen few can fight back, survival means lighting a single candle against the encroaching darkness—and finding hope in the narrowest crevices of sanity. This is her story: a girl who refused to become…