Leon always believed madness was something that happened to other people—until it started happening to him. The whispers in the walls, the shifting reflections, the memories slipping through his fingers like sand. He knows he doesn’t have much time left before his mind is no longer his own.
Determined to make the most of his last moments of clarity, he sets out to mend broken relationships, seek closure, and hold onto the people he loves—his sister Amara, his best friend Jide, and his ex-girlfriend Ada. But how do you say goodbye when you’re still here? How do you prepare for a descent you can’t escape?
Told through multiple perspectives, *Between Sanity and Shadows* is a haunting, deeply emotional tale of love, loss, and the terrifying fragility of the mind. As Leon drifts further into the abyss, those around him are left to wonder—will anything of him remain when the darkness finally takes over?
A gripping psychological drama that lingers long after the last page.
Leon isn't himself. He moves through the house differently now - his steps hesitant, as if expecting the floor to fall away beneath him. He flinches at sounds I don't hear, his shoulders tensing, his head tilting ever so slightly, like he's listening to something just beyond my reach.
One night, I wake up to find him standing in front of the mirror, perfectly still. My throat tightens. "Leon?"
He doesn't answer. I step closer, my reflection moving in the glass while his remains frozen.
"What are you looking at?"
Finally, he turns to me, his face pale, his eyes wide with something I can't name. "It smiled at me," he whispers.
A chill crawls down my spine. I tell him to see a doctor. He doesn't respond. Instead, he walks past me like a ghost.
I don't know what to do. I feel like I'm watching him unravel, thread by thread, and I don't know how to hold him together.
