What happens when your hallucinations turn real? When your nightmares start haunting you even during daytime?
Your peace is stolen, your sanity is stolen. A disturbed, sick, good for nothing brain is all that's left of you.
"The melancholy comes in waves and threatens to devour me. The nothingness in my heart, the painful throbbing in my brain, the numbness of my shaking bones, the salty tears that flowed uncontrollably down my cheeks engulfed me entirely.
Storm clouds are now blanketing the sky, the winds are roaring and howling with sadness. My grief is like the endless oceans, the clouds cry out the tears of my sadness the winds yell out my pain, the hustling leaves are my whimpers, the dogs are barking for revenge, lightening strikes bolts of anger, and amidst all of this, I lay, dead."
Hello dearest readers! This is a short horror story, based on a true event.
Have fun, and oh! Don't forget to keep and eye open for the devil's eye!
The beautiful cover by @CannibalisticNecro :)
Antique store owner Liz brings home a Victorian taxidermy hound from auction, unwittingly unleashing dark forces on her wife and son.
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Nat Loman has finally married the love of her life, Liz, and is getting used to her role as stepmother to Liz's 5-year-old son, Liam. The Loman family runs a bustling antique business so they attend a sale where a striking, black taxidermied hound is up for auction. Liz picks it up for the business, but it ends up being stored in their home, where Nat notices strange things occurring. She quickly discovers the past residents had died violently. Then she hears from a friend about the myth of "the devil's dog", a hound that perches in the shadows, tearing families apart from the inside. Soon, people around the Lomans are dying, and Liz is changing, darkening. It's up to Nat to save the woman she loves from the darkness closing in, and to save Liam from danger no matter what she has to sacrifice.
[[Winner of the 2018 Wattys "Hidden Gems" category]]
[[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]