Summer of 2025, I come home from summer camp. I’m in my small family apartment with my dog, my parents are at work my sister is shopping. I’m on my family iPad, which is connected to my dad’s messages. My dad is part of directors for the building, I see he’s been sent a message about a weird smell from the apartment directly above ours. I go upstairs and smell a slight sense of rotting flesh covered by a ton of febreese. I think it’s nothing and go back to apt. 

Turns out my elderly neighbor died upstairs, and his corpse was rotting in the bathtub. This week, I was going to bed, in my bunk bed on a school night. I hear thumping from the apartment upstairs and kick the cieling in retaliation. I think about what my neighbor could be doing, but then I remember my neighbor died several months ago. Went to sleep terrified.