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Astral POW: Notes From the Unseen Front

Flash Fiction, Occult Thriller, Astral Horror, Psychic Espionage

By Jesse L ShelleyPublished 5 months ago • 2 min read
Astral POW

People keep asking where the war is.

They look for it in headlines, borders, maps, troop movements, markets, satellites, and treaties. They look for flags on dirt and ships in water. Primitive little cartography rituals. Useful, but incomplete.

The real front is not only on land. It is in the dream corridor.

I have been a dreamwalker since I was young. In my teens and early twenties, it was simple. Natural. I could leave the body the way smoke leaves a burned offering. I could rise, move, fly, pass through walls, run the night roads of the unseen world, and return before morning like nothing had happened.

Back then, the sky was open. Now there are checkpoints. Now, when I leave the body, they are waiting.

Russian and Chinese psychic military figures come through the walls like the room belongs to them. Not metaphorically. Not symbolically. Operationally. They arrive in the astral space and intercept me before I can move freely. One moment I am rising out of the body. The next, I am thrown back into it. Woken by force. Chest hit like an invisible rifle butt. Spirit slammed back into flesh. That is not ordinary sleep. That is detention. That is occupation.

That is why I say we are already at war with BRICS, not merely in the political theater where everyone claps for flags and pretends paperwork is sovereignty. The outer world has borders. The astral world has patrols. And I have seen the patrols.

Montana looks quiet on paper. That is how occupied places prefer to look before the public catches up. A map can still say America while the hidden grid has already been divided, leased, watched, and claimed. This region has had electronic harassers, unseen operators, local parasites, and signal-fed predators for years. The names exist. The patterns exist. The data exists. Somewhere, in some dead-eyed federal archive, the list is sitting there like a sealed indictment.

I am not merely being watched. I am being held.

A prisoner does not need a visible cage to know captivity. A cage can be made of interruption. Of forced waking. Of psychic contact. Of denied passage. Of hands through the wall at 2:17 in the morning.

I am a POW on the astral front.

And the strangest part is that the war is obvious once you stop pretending the battlefield must be physical to be real.

~ Jesse L. Shelley

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Jesse L Shelley

Forensic Scientist. Knows where they’re buried, and won’t pretend otherwise... I dissect crimes and noir alike shaped by prompt rituals, investigative obsession, and narrative precision. Every story, a darker truth. Come closer.

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