<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Writings of Joshua Bish]]></title><description><![CDATA[Author Site]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:45:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Shadows: A Note from the Author]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to the official blog of The Psalms of the Tear  series — a space where the veil between reality and nightmare wears thin. I’m...]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/welcome-to-the-shadows-a-note-from-the-author</link><guid isPermaLink="false">688cdf585d18943520726b36</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:38:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Veil: Making Chapter 20 — “The Room Across the Hall”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learn what happens across the hall of Room 316.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/behind-the-veil-making-chapter-20-the-room-across-the-hall</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a03de492fe6e98eed462bfa</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 02:24:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_f34f8445188641e8a33d2dcd1fa7f6a5~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Veil: Making Chapter 19 — “The Woman Who Knocked”]]></title><description><![CDATA[behind the scenes of Chapter 19 for the lady in flesh]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/behind-the-veil-making-chapter-19-the-woman-who-knocked</link><guid isPermaLink="false">699a300333aebccb48679639</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:08:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_5ff5cf7f0ef246a1a1117b3857307bc2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Haunting of Room 316: Clara's Descent into Darkness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Behind the veil of chapter 18 of The Lady in Flesh]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/behind-the-veil-making-chapter-18-the-girl-in-room-316</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697557605de6a8b70535c800</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:50:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_e34f732c260e455d885826b923794bf3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Veil: Making Chapter 17 — “Stillborn Knowledge”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Autumn 1898 at Concord State Normal School brings the first students to Sarvey Hall, where Appalachian stillness hangs heavy, books change overnight, and a sealed room awakens. As the ridge grows quiet and the halls begin to breathe, Rebecca Morgan becomes the first girl taken, her absence marked by ritual, whispers in the walls, and a bell that now calls without sound.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/behind-the-veil-making-chapter-17-stillborn-knowledge</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696cfa45d122d90ed967bbc3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:37:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_8d779bec9cc8434e8b77315a034e7afa~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Veil: Making Chapter 16 — “The Last Light in the Hall”]]></title><description><![CDATA[A grieving caretaker records the slow awakening of Concord’s halls, where folklore, faith, and a hungry bell reveal that the school itself has become a living body.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/behind-the-veil-making-chapter-16-the-last-light-in-the-hall</link><guid isPermaLink="false">695131bb82b426413642ebc3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:54:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_1848a243798f4f5d91589efe572d2f50~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Veil: Making Chapter 15 — “The Orphan Bell]]></title><description><![CDATA[The creation of chapter 15 and the orphan bell]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/behind-the-veil-making-chapter-15-the-orphan-bell</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6948067f93dd8b221e6bd168</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:02:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_4ba560e7c4c045ed93de0b02a0cc7c9a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Veil: Making Chapter 14 — “Brick and Bone”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making of Chapter 14]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/behind-the-veil-making-chapter-14-brick-and-bone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69402eac6d0c6bf8343174e1</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:00:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_e07a81687abc48ab846cd3cfa6e4ad6d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building on a Wound: Behind Chapter 13 The Foundations of Fear]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Foundations of Fear” was built where history and haunting collide. Drawing from real construction deaths at Concord and bending the dates, I treated Athens Ridge like a wound being built over—each fallen worker another brick the Tear and the Lady claimed long before Room 316 ever existed.
]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/building-on-a-wound-behind-chapter-13-the-foundations-of-fear</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6913374f4f2482195719c442</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:38:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_bee8f2f14a6f431a97c272d559d614da~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Veil: Making Chapter 12 — Psalms of Flesh]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the wound-shaped cathedral beneath Room 316, the Lady in Flesh lifts her arms and the choir answers. Hands rustle, teeth sing, clocks stutter. Kithra beckons, Murnak coils, the Closet Twins knock, Brother Grin giggles, Elpit smiles with the needle, and Father Plume opens his black gospel. The pit glows like an eye. This is the psalm the Shadow Realm loves—where pain learns a melody and new names are added to the hymn.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/behind-the-veil-making-chapter-12-psalms-of-flesh</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f4661da6f2484f3c97fe4a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 05:38:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_48c01a96d7764d3dad1bcfd59660bee2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lady in Flesh — Chapter 11: The One Inside the Walls]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Room 316 the wall breathes. Not drywall—muscle. A wet dragging moves behind paint like a worm through meat. It speaks in borrowed voices: your mother’s lullaby, your dog’s bark, the last words you hoped to forget. The seam unfurls and Yekkath peers through, a face woven from nerves, fingers like black threads tugging at memory. It doesn’t take flesh. It unspools who you were, and the room learns your name.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/the-lady-in-flesh-chapter-11-the-one-inside-the-walls</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68eba0215aaaeed328ca6a52</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:40:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_a9dfadeb32cd413ca84988beb8736bf0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chapter 10 Outline: The Ceiling Watches]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chapter 10: The Ceiling Watches—Sarvey Hall’s ceiling breathes. From its seams slides the Witness: a long-limbed marionette that taps at 3:16 a.m., wears the faces you love, and whispers truths you buried. It doesn’t devour the body—it licks your soul, scraping joy into dread and steering the sleepless toward Room 316.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/chapter-10-outline-the-ceiling-watches</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68e22a3cfabe64c932f5e5a4</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:35:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_0caa35a643504ba79362f015659e7071~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lady in Flesh — Chapter 9: The Womb Beneath the Closet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chapter 9 slips beneath Sarvey Hall to the Womb that pretends to be a closet. At 3:16 a.m., cold breath and a copper whisper draw a girl to the seam; behind it, lungs for walls and a lullaby that unthreads the self. The Lady in Flesh descends like an umbilical prayer, rewriting the heart, feeding the Seed. Room 316 isn’t a doorway—it’s a birth canal. And beginnings here always bleed.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/the-lady-in-flesh-chapter-9-the-womb-beneath-the-closet</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d926ce4c8425dc7bfd3427</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:03:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_2fcf3327bef74ab68fb3c429e7207146~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lady in Flesh — Chapter 8: Flesh of the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flesh of the World: The Shadow Realm isn’t a place but a parasite inside reality. Doors bloom like mouths, gravity falters, and a cathedral-heart feeds on stories. The Lady in Flesh descends and offers an infant of sound; the pulse quickens and new doors grow. Above, Sarvey Hall seals cursed stone. Room 316 is almost an eye, ready to blink.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/the-lady-in-flesh-chapter-8-flesh-of-the-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cf8376c9b60ffcbec8ebdf</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:25:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_2f8f3c9a28be4dadbfd04da8bdf97958~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chapter 7 Blog: “The Bleeding Walls of Memory”]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Shadow Realm isn’t a place; it’s a wound that refuses to scar. Corridors inhale, light leaks from living walls. She floats past doors that whisper older-than-prayer, back to the chamber of flesh where names are carved by teeth—Kayla, Zoe, Madison—each one pulsing. Evelyn remains a stubborn scar. Ahead, a blank door throbs with the future. The number isn’t hung yet, but she knows it: 316.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/chapter-7-blog-the-bleeding-walls-of-memory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68c6b09b9ca2af2aa232cf02</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 13:01:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_d698065d614541e49ed2a34f0146ffbc~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_896,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lady in Flesh — Chapter 6: The Becoming (That Night)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Footsteps end at the light. The threshold doesn’t move—you do. “She stepped forward. Into the slit. Into the wound. Into the hunger.” Not...]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/the-lady-in-flesh-chapter-6-the-becoming-that-night</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68c06481ccaa65e2efd001a6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:21:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_5f235e7d2be64948954a9e2b62bcd99c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lady in Flesh, Chapter 5: The Third Offering (1604, Spring)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spring arrives early, but nothing feels clean. Ice does not sing; it shatters. The village moves like it is holding its breath while Wenonah’s edges go wrong, shadow bent and voice threaded through the wind. The Tear’s appetite has clarified, innocence is not a symbol anymore, it is a price. To keep an offering pure, Wenonah makes a decision that breaks the home from the inside and carries what remains up Yula’mek. The altar does not hum now; it breathes.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/the-lady-in-flesh-chapter-5-the-third-offering-1604-spring</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b43ce11d66bce9aa9d400b</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:26:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_f2ec100195714aec94ab3dcb65324724~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_896,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lady in Flesh,  Chapter 4: The Second Offering (1604)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deep winter turns predatory on Yula’mek. After the first offering, the Tear proves choosy, hungry for innocence, not pain, and a brief trespass called New Prosperity draws its gaze. At 3:16 the sky doesn’t open; it rips, reshaping Wenonah, the altar, and the rules of the land.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/the-lady-in-flesh-chapter-4-the-second-offering-1604</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ab0dd607451e29b69db329</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 14:09:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_bf714912397a48e4a1c5f2f4d99a0837~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_832,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lady in Flesh Chapter 3: The First Offering (1603)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Midwinter turns feral on Yula’mek. Hunger drives neighbors to raid, an unnamed boy becomes the first offering, and at 3:16 the hill opens—shifting the story from haunting to cosmic fact. This chapter asks what we owe the living when the body itself becomes a door.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/the-lady-in-flesh-chapter-3-the-first-offering-1603</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a1ea846aa481be492cb4ff</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:56:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_f51080beaab343809688517a380f0a74~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_832,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chapter Two: The Tear, When the Sky Bled Black]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before she was a mother or a wife, Wenonah stood alone on Yula’mek’s windswept edge, fasting beneath the stars. At 3:16 a.m., the sky split open — not with light, but with a bleeding blackness that breathed. In that moment, something ancient saw her… and never looked away.]]></description><link>https://ppd396.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/chapter-two-the-tear-when-the-sky-bled-black</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68981e20ce404ed5f5e4e787</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 05:17:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/39d9a5_091bbacedef74975812511ed8413ba15~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joshua Bish</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>