Unblockable Creatures 【2025】
The creature tilted its fractured head. “That word doesn’t mean what you think it means.”
That worked fine until the day the creature in the library sat down across from him. It was tall, human-shaped, but with a face like a shattered mirror—each shard reflecting a different version of Leo: Leo crying at his father’s funeral, Leo laughing at a bad joke, Leo asleep, Leo screaming. It placed a hand on the table between them. The hand went through the wood without disturbing a single grain. unblockable creatures
Leo tried everything. He moved apartments. He changed cities. He bought a steel door, then a concrete wall, then a salt circle, then a prayer from a monk who laughed and said, “For these? No lock holds them.” He learned that creatures like these don’t care about physics. They care about attention . The more he tried to block them, the more they noticed him. The creature tilted its fractured head
He spent the next twenty years pretending they didn’t exist. It placed a hand on the table between them