✍️ The Corridor of Sins

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The Corridor of Sins

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The protagonist is trapped in an infinite corridor which displays a person’s portrait, name, age and the biggest sin they committed on each section of the wall. The protagonist can hear the thoughts of the people displayed on the portrait by touching their section of the wall. As protagonist walks down the hallway, he sees people who have committed worse sins and sees more disturbing alterations to the walls, for example bloodstains or glitchy portraits.

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The corridor stretched endlessly before him, a narrow passageway lined with portraits that seemed to pulse with a life of their own. Each section of the wall was dedicated to a single person, displaying their portrait, name, age, and the biggest sin they had committed. The air was thick with an oppressive silence, broken only by the soft hum of unseen machinery.

Ethan took a hesitant step forward, his eyes drawn to the first portrait. It was a young woman named Sarah, age 24. Beneath her serene face, the words "Theft" were etched in a cold, metallic script. He reached out, his fingers trembling as they brushed against the wall. Instantly, a flood of thoughts invaded his mind.

"I didn't mean to take it... I was desperate... I needed the money for my brother's medicine..."

Ethan recoiled, the weight of her guilt pressing down on him. He moved on, each step taking him deeper into the corridor and further into the darkness of human nature. The next portrait was of an older man, Robert, age 56. "Adultery" was his sin. Ethan touched the wall again.

"It was a mistake... I loved my wife, but I was weak... I couldn't resist..."

The thoughts were a cacophony of regret and self-loathing. Ethan's heart ached with the burden of their confessions, but he couldn't stop. He had to keep moving, had to find a way out of this nightmarish place.

As he walked, the sins grew darker, more twisted. The walls began to change, too. Bloodstains appeared, smeared across the portraits, as if the very walls were bleeding. Some of the portraits started to glitch, the faces distorting into grotesque parodies of themselves.

He came across a portrait of a man named Victor, age 34. "Murder" was written beneath his image. Ethan hesitated, but curiosity got the better of him. He touched the wall.

"I had no choice... He was going to ruin everything... I had to protect my family..."

The thoughts were cold, calculated, devoid of the remorse that had filled the others. Ethan shuddered, pulling his hand back as if burned. The corridor seemed to close in around him, the walls narrowing, the air growing colder.

Further down, the portraits became more disturbing. A woman named Emily, age 29, had "Torture" listed as her sin. Her portrait was smeared with blood, her eyes hollow and lifeless. Ethan didn't dare touch the wall this time, the malevolence radiating from it was palpable.

The corridor twisted and turned, leading him deeper into the abyss. The portraits became more fragmented, the sins more heinous. He saw faces twisted in agony, names he didn't recognize, ages that spanned from the very young to the very old. The walls were now covered in a patchwork of blood, grime, and digital glitches that made the faces flicker and warp.

Ethan's mind was a whirlwind of emotions, the thoughts of the damned echoing in his head. He felt their pain, their regret, their anger. It was overwhelming, suffocating. He stumbled, his legs weak, his vision blurring.

Just when he thought he couldn't take anymore, he saw a portrait that made his blood run cold. It was his own face staring back at him, his name, his age. Beneath his image, the words "Yet to be determined" were written.

He reached out, his hand trembling, and touched the wall. There were no thoughts, no flood of emotions. Just a chilling silence that seemed to seep into his very soul.

Ethan fell to his knees, the weight of the corridor pressing down on him. He realized then that this was his fate, to walk this infinite hallway, to bear witness to the sins of others, and to confront his own. There was no escape, no end. Only the endless corridor and the haunting portraits that lined its walls.

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