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Be Careful What You Wish For

At first glance, it’s just another aging apartment complex in the heart of the city. But behind its unassuming façade, 30 apartments hide 30 buried desires—and something far older than concrete and steel is listening. When a man is found murdered in his home with a chilling message scrawled in blood—“He promised me. Now he’s come to collect.”—the fragile peace among the tenants shatters. Surveillance footage shows impossible events. Time distorts. Faces shift. And from Apartment 202, six-year-old Lia begins drawing scenes of death in vivid red crayon… before they happen. But Lia isn’t just predicting the future—she’s shaping it. As more residents vanish in grotesque, symbolic killings tied to their hidden longings (invisibility, omniscience, revenge), a secret group known as The Circle of the 31 Echos emerges—descendants of a forgotten cult that once made a pact with the building itself. They believe the structure is an altar, the deaths are payments, and the true 31st tenant—the one who never appears on any registry—is waking up. Meanwhile, Camila, the enigmatic woman from 402 with a past soaked in blood and prophecy, knows the truth: the building houses The Black Box, a relic from a failed 1984 experiment that turned human desire into flesh-eating reality. And now, after decades of silence, someone has wished too loudly. As paranoia consumes the floors, walls bleed memories, elevators descend to a non-existent basement labeled 000, and the line between resident and monster dissolves, only Lia remains eerily calm—drawing not just deaths, but doors. Doors that lead inward. Doors that remember. In a final descent into the building’s living core—a pulsating labyrinth of guilt, regret, and stolen dreams—an ex-detective, a repentant scientist, and a child who may be the embodiment of collective trauma must decide: Can you kill a wish? Or will the building keep feeding… forever?

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Posted:
01/10/2026
Updated:
01/10/2026
Author Bio:
Angolan writer • Architect of metaphysical horror • Voice of ancestral memory

Born in Uíge and raised between the silence of Huíla and the echoes of Angola’s haunted past, Meireles André is an internationally awarded author whose work defies genre, geography, and time. At just 25, he has already published over ten books that blend folklore, spiritual resistance, poetic dread, and the unspoken traumas of collective memory.

His writing does not tell stories—it returns them.

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