Have you ever had a nightmare where you are just running-running from something, but you don't know what?
Remember that feeling, how the sweat pours from your skin, the sheer terror that takes you in its grasp?
Can you? Good.
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Mi'osi could feel the dirt beneath his feet, the feeling that the breaking of twigs causes through your bones. It grabbed him by the shoulders and whispered one thing.
Run.
So he did, he is. He's running, trying to escape whatever is behind him. He has no image for what he is running from, just that if it caught him - when it finds him - nothing good will come from it. Ask him its eyes colour, and he'll answer terrifying. Ask him how it looks? He'll answer menacing.
So he's running like he's never run before - and nothings going to stop him.
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
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Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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