The Blinking Cursor Symphony — Zoe Miller

Eliza's attic studio pulsed with an oppressive aura, as if the very air had solidified into doubt. Cobwebs, spun by dust motes and whispered anxieties, adorned the skylights, each strand a mocking filament of her stalled imagination. Her magnum opus, a sweeping saga of star-crossed sorcerers and forgotten kingdoms, lay crumpled on the floor, each discarded page a battle flag surrendered in the war against writer's block. Weeks had bled into months, the manuscript transforming from a tapestry of vibrant threads into a shroud woven from the whispers of failure.