Welcome to Blighton - The Survival Guidebook
You have just finished moving into this unremarkable, remote town called Blighton, located at the edge of a beautiful forest. Looking forward to a fresh start in a great neighborhood and close community, you make yourself at home in your new place.
Not even one week after arriving, something strange happens upon returning home from work.
You discover a small brown package in your mail, with neither sender nor recipient stated on it.
After unwrapping the paper, a grey booklet is revealed, imprinted with the questionable title "Blighton Citizen Guidebook".
Flipping through the pages, you quickly come to the conclusion that either this package has been delivered to the wrong person, or someone is playing a lousy prank on you. Is this supposed to scare you? Without giving it a second thought you toss the booklet aside, paying it no mind for a couple of days.
But somehow you can't bring yourself to disregard it entirely. Something about the whole thing does not feel right to you. It seems way to elaborate for a simple joke. Why would someone go through the effort of compiling a bunch of ghost stories, just to trick some random newcomer?
Eventually, your curiosity gets the better of you and the booklet finds itself in your hands once again.
With a sigh you sit down at your table and open this supposed "guidebook".
You begin reading the first page...
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This story represents a personal challenge in which I tried to write a short entry for each day of October.
Word count: ~35,000 words
[Content Warnings: Mentions of depression and suicide, descriptions of body horror]
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