Stories from Beyond The Veil: Stories from Beyond the Veil, #2

By Shweta Iyer

This second volume contains 8 stories of intrigue, loss and horror.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shweta Iyer
• Release date: Oct 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393335801

Shweta Iyer

Shweta has been an avid horror, mystery, thriller, and ghost stories reader. She has a handful of favourites in both English and Marathi literature. The stories in this book are being written and compiled since over a decade now. Only 4 are chosen here and there will be future volumes coming soon. Happy reading ❣️💌

Book preview

MIND GAMES

Mrs Shaila Raman had recently lost her husband to a long battle with lung cancer. She now had her 24 year old son, and nobody else in the world to hold on to.

Ishan has recently started working on a big MNC. The first job of his career kept him busy and it helped in coping with his father’s loss. Shaila, however was struggling. She was in deep depression and wasn’t able to accept the loss of her Soulmate at this stage in life. They remained madly in love till his last days. She still loved him and cried bitter tears, hiding them from her son.

Ishan did what he could to support and help her. But all his efforts were fruitless as she needed professional help to accept her loss and deal with the grief. He suggested to his mother, that a psychiatrist would help, if she was willing. He could check for some reputed psychiatrist and take her there himself.

Shaila said she would think about it, and stopped that topic at least for today. She had indeed thought of taking professional help, but didn’t want to trouble her son. He had just started out in his career and had a long way to go to gain some success. She wanted him to focus on that and then in a few year’s time get married and settle down. For this his career had to be stable and secure.

Shaila was spending a lot of time on online forums where people would share their personal stories of loss and help each other overcome and move on. One such forum was for her own city. There was a contributor on this forum who used to give advice and help the participants. He was a psychiatrist and certified hypno-therapist. He was ready to provide his services at a discount if anyone on this forum wanted to consult with him in person.

Shaila sent him a private message asking for his fee and the location his clinic. He replied and asked for her number. He called immediately and spoke to her. She wrote down his address and booked an appointment for the next week.

She didn’t want to tell Ishan yet. She wanted to first see how this person turns out. Being from an older generation, she wasn’t comfortable telling any family or friends that she was going to start therapy. It isn’t very common in our society and people think it is unnecessary and judge you as being mentally unsound. Shaila herself was well read and educated enough to know that taking psychiatric help was normal, but still decided not to share this information with anyone.

Aweek later, she went to meet Dr Mehul Shah at his clinic. He spoke to her for a long time, noted her family and health history. Relation with husband and son. Gave her some solid advice and spoke comfortingly. He asked if she would like to do a small hypnotherapy session of 5 minutes. It could be done later in the next appointment if she wants, in the presence of her son or a family member so she can trust the therapist to be genuine.

Shaila said she already trusted him. He was a professional afterall and would like the session right now. So the doctor then put her under hypnotic sleep for 5 minutes. She didn’t remember anything at all, but she did feel like a heavy burden had been lifted off of her shoulders.

She thanked the doctor, paid his consultation fee and left. He had given her just one pill to be taken an hour before sleeping.

The very first night, she dreamed of some incidents from her past. It was the day her grandmother passed away. She was just 10 years old and had pushed away this memory in her subconscious. It suddenly resurfaced and became a nightmare. Shaila woke up in cold sweat, shaking and shivering all over. The doctor  had warned her that some old memories may resurface. She should write these down in a journal and show it to him in the next visit so he could understand how the treatment was going.

Shaila wrote down all that she could remember from the dream in her journal. She felt immense sadness at remembering her grandmother’s passing. It was surprising how much it was affecting her after these many years. Decades! She could not go back to sleep that night.

Her treatment continued and