"If you're not careful, and you turn around in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backhalls. No one knows what causes it. Some people say it only happens when you stop paying attention to where you are for a second too long. Others say it’s already connected to every apartment building, and sometimes it just opens. You won’t find an exit that makes sense. Stairwells repeat. Elevators never match the buttons you pressed. Hallways loop in ways they shouldn’t, even in buildings that are only supposed to have a few floors.Sometimes one will be open that wasn’t before. Sometimes your own apartment number shows up where it shouldn’t be. Don’t go inside. There are things in the Backhalls. They call them Humans. They look like people at a distance. Close up, they’re wrong in ways you notice too late. Bodies that don’t match themselves. Movements that don’t line up right. Faces that feel like they were copied instead of born. Once a Human notices you, it starts following you. First it walks. Then it remembers how to run. They don’t stop. If a Human catches you, there is nothing left that anyone would recognize as you afterward. The worst part is not the chasing. It’s that sometimes, you hear them on the other side of apartment doors… moving like they’re trying to learn how to live there."
a short horror story made by me and my little brother.
