La Puto kaj la Pendolo: Rakonto el la Hispana Inkvizicio

A first-person narrator recounts near-death confinement after a secretive judgment, describing prolonged sensory distortion and extreme psychological torment. Awakening in utter darkness, the narrator explores a subterranean cell, confronts the terror of a hidden pit and a slowly descending sharp pendulum, and endures threats from starvation, immobilizing bonds, and compressing walls. The narrative focuses on fractured memory, acute bodily sensations, and mounting dread while searching for a means of escape; the tension resolves when external intervention arrives and frees the narrator before the intended execution can be completed.