Invisible Traces · A Horror Story No. 13
Inside the Voice
Alex Moonn
I mean that there's another one. And that the other one knows we're here.
São Paulo, 2019. Celina Vasconcellos is thirty-seven, with a speech-therapy practice in Jardins, two teenage daughters and a marriage she describes as “structurally intact.” She has spent her life listening to what lies beneath other people's voices. Now, sitting across from a psychiatrist at Hospital das Clínicas, she tries to tell him what happened while she can still speak in her own voice. The audio of the session degrades, and no one can find a technical fault to explain it.
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“What do you mean by ‘your own voice’?”
“I mean that there’s another one.”
[Seventeen-second pause in the recording.]
“And that the other one knows we’re here.”
[The transcriber noted in the margin, by hand: during those seventeen seconds there is no silence. There is a very low sound, below the threshold of speech, with the cadence of someone breathing close to the microphone. In the video, Celina’s mouth is closed.]
English edition, available on Amazon.
