The footsteps following me sounded closer. I ran through the empty corridors of the hospital, my heart pounding with terror.

I turned a corner and stopped short. I had reached a dead end.

Bam! Goes a door far down the hallway, the sound echoing eerily in the silence.

I gulped, feeling the wall with my hands — the light had long since died on its own.

There was no way out — going back would be suicide,...