One amazing evening as the sun was blazing hot outside, everyone was wearing shorts and short sleeves. Except only one specific boy, in the entire world who worn long sleeves but shorts. Everyone thought he was hiding something or just being weird on a hot school day. Every step of each day they push him into getting bullied for just liking or loving another male species. They don't think how good it is to love another boy, they just randomly jump to conclusions, also don't care on how thunder like it hurts their feeling's just for being on how they are born. Once he loved someone before ever since High School started, he finally spilled his own rainbow feelings toward the special boy, but he only got back fired. The other boy disagree and didn't want to be disgusted by his friends, so he turned against him because he also wasn't gay and started to turn madly displeased to the hurtful boy and went onto getting bullied.
Ever since that day he spilled his feelings to the person he thought could love him back, but it was out of control of the wrong person. He turned into a bullyand joined the others in the school also used it against all gay couples that appear throughout the year. That broken boy was getting the life beating out of him, he now thinks he wasn't going to spill any more feelings because he felt stone cold and didn't want to get painful hurt anymore. In his heart maybe a little bit of life still in it, he might but hopefully meet another boy that loves each other in every way it goes. Eventually, he had trouble with that subject, he just doesn't want to get hurt anymore. Until in his middle of the school year, a student transferred to his school, ever since he laid his eyes specifically on his, the other boy did the same, there was an electric spark of a bond between them and never died down.
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]]
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