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In Her Own Hand
C2 · Proficient · fiction · 9 scenes · Free to read
A C2 psychological thriller. Marina, a solitary literary translator wracked by insomnia, begins finding pages of a manuscript under her door each night — a story that narrates her own days and even her secret thoughts, always a step ahead. Certain she is being watched, she bolts the door and keeps vigil, only to wake with fresh ink on her fingers. When the manuscript's handwriting proves identical to her own, an elderly psychiatrist names the disorder that divides her — yet she cannot remember him at all, and the ending leaves waking life and delusion impossible to tell apart. A closed, interior tale of an unreliable narrator, the fragility of the self, memory, guilt, and doubling.
Characters
- Marina (Марина) — The unreliable narrator
- The Other (Та, другая) — The invisible hand
- Viktor Sergeyevich (Виктор Сергеевич) — The psychiatrist
Vocabulary from this story
- бессонница — insomnia
- рассудок — reason
- сознание — consciousness
- память — memory
- паранойя — paranoia
- тревога — anxiety
- наваждение — delusion
- расстройство — disorder
- безумие — madness
- двойник — double
- личность — personality
- транс — trance