Second Floor Office: A Horror Novella

By Toby Mikle

Ray Voss built a life out of paperwork: deferred repairs, buried notices, signed denials, and the kind of polite language that made harm sound like process.

Then he arrives at his second-floor property office and finds the appointment book full.

One by one, the people he ruined come in with exact memories. A woman remembers the smell in the hallway before the fire. A contractor remembers the porch Ray made him sign off on. A widow remembers the furnace repair that waited while a profitable remodel did not. A mother remembers being silenced by procedure, and a closing table remembers the disclosure Ray refused to amend.

Outside Ray's window, the street begins showing what his files left out: smoke, winter, stretchers, eviction boxes, and a child's bicycle in the road.

Hell has not sent Ray monsters.

It has sent him meetings.

And every meeting gives him one chance to tell the truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H636SJTQ
• ISBN13: 9798182324571
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"