COMPLETED [boyxboy] Mason Maloney has lived his whole life in the shadow of his twin brother, Nathan, star quarterback of the football team. While Nathan impresses everyone in town with his athleticism, Mason spends his afternoons working at the local bakery. His rather mundane life becomes more interesting when his brother's rival quarterback, Sam Knight, gets a job along side him at the bakery. The rivalry between their two schools should keep them apart, but does it? COVER BY: @Grand_ ~166k words

ᴠᴀʀɪᴀɴ, ᴀ ʙʟɪɴᴅꜰᴜʟʟʏ ᴛʀᴜꜱᴛɪɴɢ ᴛᴇᴇɴ, ʜᴀꜱ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴜʀᴠɪᴠᴇ ᴘꜱʏᴄʜᴏʟᴏɢɪᴄᴀʟ ᴍᴀɴɪᴘᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ʜɪꜱ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ ɪɴ ᴏʀᴅᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱɪꜱᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴜʀɢᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴋɪʟʟ. Varian Morris is an average teen with an average girlfriend and a set of average friends. Against the backdrop of 2003, a camping trip turns into a horror game between Varian and two of his friends, Kacey and Padriac. Things turn for the worse when Varian falls down a hill and blacks out only to awaken in an unknown room. Trapped, he's taunted and forced to obey the commands of the person behind a mechanical voice. He's put through trauma, forced to eat the fingers of a dead girl resembling his girlfriend, before he's returned home. While his family are adamant to get him help, his friends Kacey, Padriac, and Mary seemed unbothered by the mental trauma he's gone through. They act strange and his girlfriend has been picking up on it for years. Only now, she's accusing Kacey of being his kidnapper. Varian is horrified and swears it couldn't be true. While trying to piece his life back together, he grapples with the influx of twisted fantasies and desires unleashed by his hellish nights of imprisonment. His relationships begin to fall apart and when he's just starting to get help, he's kidnapped again. [Potential Spoilers] All characters are 18. Puppet stands on its own, but it is the first in a series with an interconnected universe.

No one expected that it would happen until it did. Earth was dying. We, the few who survived the disease, were all contained in cells with artificial light and oxygen and food in the form of pills. So when help came in the form of C'Riel, an alien race that lived in a planet called Xe'Krein, many people found hope. But I was wary. Why would the C'Riel help us? How did we benefit them? What I didn't expect to happen was meeting him. The fire-eyed alien. My alien. And then I found out, that sometimes answers to the questions we want to know are sick and leave you wondering if everything was a lie.