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The Stutter That Stays
In the summer of 1997, Minneapolis went silent.
Clara Voss, a beloved speech-language pathologist, finished her last session, waved goodbye...and disappeared. Her car was left open two blocks from the clinic. A single blue folder lay on the dash, its page blank, its promise unfinished.
Then the voices started coming back.
Patients began to speak with her cadence. Recordings replayed words she never said. Phones hummed, saying session starts now before the line went dead. A new therapist heard Clara’s rhythm slip into her own speech, syllable by syllable, until her voice wasn’t hers anymore.
Now, beneath the flickering neon sign of the old Language Lab, every word carries a ghost. Every breath holds something borrowed. And if you speak at 4:15 p.m., when the lights hum and the air feels heavy, she might answer.
The Stutter That Stays is a literary supernatural thriller about language, grief, and identity—how far a voice will travel to be heard again.
Fans of The Silent Patient, The Haunting of Hill House, and The Night Film will feel at home in this cold, careful dread.
Because the session never ends. It just waits for you to speak next.
Clara Voss, a beloved speech-language pathologist, finished her last session, waved goodbye...and disappeared. Her car was left open two blocks from the clinic. A single blue folder lay on the dash, its page blank, its promise unfinished.
Then the voices started coming back.
Patients began to speak with her cadence. Recordings replayed words she never said. Phones hummed, saying session starts now before the line went dead. A new therapist heard Clara’s rhythm slip into her own speech, syllable by syllable, until her voice wasn’t hers anymore.
Now, beneath the flickering neon sign of the old Language Lab, every word carries a ghost. Every breath holds something borrowed. And if you speak at 4:15 p.m., when the lights hum and the air feels heavy, she might answer.
The Stutter That Stays is a literary supernatural thriller about language, grief, and identity—how far a voice will travel to be heard again.
Fans of The Silent Patient, The Haunting of Hill House, and The Night Film will feel at home in this cold, careful dread.
Because the session never ends. It just waits for you to speak next.
4 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 2, 2025
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