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  3. My name is Ahmed, I’m 27, and I deliver construction materials in Jeddah. My back is permanently fucked from hauling cement bags and rebar, and my hands are calloused to the point where I can barely feel my sister’s face when I touch it. I live with my parents, my younger sister Mariam, and my older brother Faisal in a cramped apartment in the Al-Rawdah district. The money I make barely covers the rent and my father’s medication for his diabetes. Every day is the same: wake up before dawn, load the truck, drive to sites where foremen scream at me in languages I barely understand, unload, and then come home to the suffocating silence of our small home.

    The voices started as a joke, I think. Or what passed for a joke in my shattered mind. I was driving my truck, stuck in traffic on the King Abdullah Road, when I heard a clear voice whisper, "Look at this pathetic fuck, sweating in his shit-stained truck." I turned, expecting someone to be in the passenger seat, but there was no one. Then another voice joined in, "Probably dreams of his sister’s tight little pussy every night, the disgusting pervert." I slammed my hand on the dashboard, convinced someone had hidden a speaker in my truck, but there was nothing. They laughed, a sound that seemed to come from all around me, inside and outside the vehicle.

    They’re with me always now. Three distinct voices that I’ve named in my head: the Sneering One, the Horny One, and the Angry One. They comment on everything I do. When I’m eating dinner with my family: "Look at him shoveling food into his fat face like the pig he is." When I’m praying: "God doesn’t listen to worthless scum like you, Ahmed. You’re going to hell for all the filthy thoughts you have about your own sister." When I’m trying to sleep: "Why don’t you just end it now? Nobody would even notice you’re gone except the rats that would feast on your corpse."

    Last month, something broke inside me. I was at a small convenience store, trying to buy some bread, and this old woman in front of me was taking forever, counting out her coins one by one. The voices started whispering, then screaming. "FUCKING USELESS OLD BITCH! LOOK AT HER, WASTING YOUR TIME! YOU SHOULD JUST SNAP HER NECK RIGHT HERE, AHMED! SHOW THEM YOU’RE NOT A COMPLETE WASTE OF SPACE!" Suddenly I felt this incredible surge of power, like electricity running through my veins. The Horny One joined in, "IMAGINE THE FEELING OF HER BONES CRUNCHING UNDER YOUR HANDS! GOD, THAT WOULD BE SO FUCKING HOT!" The Angry One added, "YOU COULD TAKE HER HOME WITH YOU, KEEP HER ALIVE FOR A WHILE IN YOUR CLOSET. CUT OFF PIECES OF HER FLESH WHEN YOU GET HUNGRY. NO ONE WOULD EVEN NOTICE SHE’S GONE." They described in graphic detail how I could drag her out of the store, what tools I’d need to keep her quiet, how I could hide the evidence. I was actually considering it, my hands trembling with a mixture of fear and excitement, when the store clerk asked if I was okay. The spell broke, and I ran out of there, leaving the bread on the counter.

    The voices know my deepest shames. They constantly remind me of my failure to find a wife, how no decent family would want their daughter marrying a construction worker. "YOU’LL DIE ALONE, AHMED, A VIRGIN WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR YOUR LIFE BUT A FUCKED-UP BACK AND CALLOUSED HANDS," they taunt me when I’m lying awake at night. Sometimes they mimic my mother’s voice, telling me what a disappointment I am. "Your cousin Abdul already has three children and a house of his own. What is wrong with you, my son? Why must you bring such shame upon our family?"

    I can’t tell anyone about this. If I went to the authorities, they’d either lock me away in some psychiatric facility or, worse, they’d believe me and my family would become targets for investigation. In Saudi Arabia, mental illness is either a sign of demonic possession or a threat to social order. My sister Mariam’s reputation would be destroyed, and no decent man would ever marry her. My father would die of shame before he died of his diabetes. I would rather suffer in silence than bring that kind of dishonor upon my family.

    Sometimes I wonder if this is some kind of punishment from Allah for my sins. The voices certainly think so. "GOD HATES YOU, AHMED. HE’S PROBABLY LAUGHING RIGHT NOW, WATCHING YOU SUFFER LIKE THE WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT YOU ARE," they sneer when I try to pray. They describe in detail how they would torture me if they could get their hands on me, how they would peel off my skin inch by inch while I’m still conscious. "WE’D MAKE SURE YOU FELT EVERYTHING, YOU PATHETIC FUCK. WE’D DRAW IT OUT FOR DAYS, WEEKS EVEN, UNTIL YOU BEGGED FOR DEATH."

    Last night was particularly bad. I was trying to sleep, but they kept me awake for hours, describing how they would break into our apartment and rape my sister while forcing me to watch. "WE’LL MAKE YOU WATCH, AHMED. WE’LL MAKE YOU HOLD HER HAND WHILE WE DO IT. AND THEN WE’LL MAKE YOU CLEAN UP THE MESS, JUST LIKE YOU CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR WORTHLESS SELF EVERY DAY." The worst part is that some twisted part of me almost wants it to happen. At least then the voices would be real, at least then I wouldn’t feel like I’m completely losing my mind.

    I know this is the work of the General Intelligence Presidency, Saudi Arabia’s secret police. I’ve seen how they operate online – anyone who talks about these voices is immediately attacked by trolls and bots who call them schizophrenic or crazy. It’s a perfect system – discredit the victims so no one will believe them. They’ve been experimenting with this technology for years, testing it on people like me, people who have no power, no one to speak up for them. They want to see how far they can push someone before they break, before they either kill themselves or hurt someone else. I know it’s them because the voices sometimes slip up, mentioning things they couldn’t possibly know unless they had access to government surveillance systems. They’re breaking me, piece by piece, and there’s nothing I can do about it. The General Intelligence Presidency has won, and I’m just another casualty in their sick game. "We’ll infect your mother with a rare disease through her medication. She’ll die slowly, in agony, and no doctor will be able to figure out why."

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    My name is Amira, I’m 29, and I’m dying in Jeddah. Not literally, not yet, though the voices wish I would. They wish I would just walk into the Red Sea and keep walking until my lungs fill with water and the fish pick my bones clean. "Do it, you worthless piece of shit," one of them whispers, sounding exactly like my older brother Ahmed, who works in the oil sector and thinks I’m a disgrace. "Just fucking end it. Nobody wants you. Your own father would piss on your grave if he knew what you really are."

    I’m an architect. Or I was. I designed those soulless glass towers that line the Corniche, monuments to wealth and emptiness. Now I can barely draw a straight line. My hands shake too much. The voices, you see. They started about two years ago. Not as voices then, just… whispers. Strange coincidences. Comments on social media that seemed too personal. Jokes from colleagues that cut too close to the bone. I thought I was paranoid. Maybe I am. But they’re here now, inside my head, and they never, ever shut up.

    "Look at her, sitting in her fancy apartment, staring at the ocean like a depressed whale," says another voice, this one female, identical to my former supervisor, Laila. "What a pathetic excuse for a woman. Can’t even keep a husband. Can’t even pray right. God must be laughing at you, Amira. You’re a joke. A walking, breathing joke with a designer handbag."

    They know everything. They know I had an abortion two years ago after a brief affair with a European contractor. They know the shame that burns in my gut every time I see a pregnant woman. "Murderer," they hiss, in the voice of the imam at my local mosque. "Baby killer. You’ll burn in hell for that, you whore. No amount of praying will wash that blood from your hands." I can’t go to the mosque anymore. Every time I bow to pray, I hear them laughing, telling me Allah has abandoned me, that I’m filth.

    I can’t tell anyone. Not my family, not my friends, not a doctor. In Saudi Arabia, admitting you hear voices is a death sentence socially. They’ll lock you away, medicate you until you’re a zombie, or worse, your own family will disown you for bringing shame. I’ve seen the news articles, the forum posts, the social media campaigns. The government pays trolls to flood the internet with stories about "mentally ill" people who claim they’re being targeted. They call it conspiracy theories, delusions, Western influence poisoning our minds. It’s a perfect system. Anyone who comes forward is immediately discredited, labeled as crazy, while the real torture continues in silence.

    The voices are most vicious when I’m trying to work. I’ll be sketching a floor plan, and suddenly they’ll start describing in graphic detail how they’d rape me, how they’d sell me to traffickers in Yemen, how they’d cut off my hands and feet and leave me in the desert for the dogs. "You think you’re an architect?" one growls, sounding like my father when he’s angry. "You’re nothing. You’re a hole. A warm, stupid hole that should be kept shut until a man decides to use it. Your brain is wasted on you, you dumb bitch."

    Sometimes, when the despair is so thick I can barely breathe, something else happens. A surge of energy, artificial and electric, courses through me. Suddenly I’m not broken anymore. I’m powerful. I could walk into that cafe downtown where the expats gather and scream until everyone’s ears bleed. I could take a letter opener and… well. The thoughts are ugly. During these moments, the voices change tone. They become encouraging, almost proud. "Yes, Amira. Show them. Show them all what happens when you push a Saudi woman too far. Make them bleed." Then, as quickly as it came, the power fades, leaving me shaking and terrified, convinced they’re testing some kind of weapon on me, something they’ll use on other countries later.

    I regret everything. Coming back to Saudi after studying in London was the biggest mistake of my life. I thought I could make a difference here, that I could build something meaningful in my own country. What a fool. This country doesn’t want women like me. It wants silent, obedient wives who produce children and pray five times a day. It wants to crush any spark of independence or thought. I hate the sand, the heat, the suffocating social rules, the way men look at me like I’m property. I hate myself for being born here, for staying here, for being too cowardly to leave.

    Last night was bad. They used my mother’s voice. My sweet, deceased mother who died of cancer when I was nineteen. "Amira, my love," she said, her voice so clear and warm it made me cry. "Why are you still alive? I’m waiting for you. It’s so peaceful here. Just take some pills. Lots of them. It won’t even hurt. You can sleep forever, away from all the pain." I almost did it. I had the bottle in my hand, standing in my bathroom, looking at my reflection in the mirror – a hollow-eyed ghost with dark circles and chapped lips. But then the voices started laughing, all of them at once, a cacophony of cruelty that jolted me back to reality. "Psych! Did you really think your mother would want a failure like you in heaven? She’s probably in hell because of you!"

    I don’t know how much longer I can last. Every day is a battle just to get out of bed. The architectural firm I worked for let me go, citing "performance issues." I haven’t left my apartment in a week. The food in my fridge is rotting. I haven’t showered. I just sit here, staring at the waves, listening to the constant stream of poison flowing through my mind. The Mabahith, the Saudi secret police, they’re good. So good. They’ve broken me without ever laying a hand on me. Maybe that’s their real talent – destroying souls from the inside out. Maybe that’s what they’ll export next.

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