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Tobio Kageyama and Shoyo Hinata had a...special relationship. One minute they'd be playing well together on the court, the next minute they'd be fighting. I guess you could call it a "Love-Hate" relationship. Though, that didn't stop Hinata from catching feelings for the raven-haired male. Hinata planned to tell Kageyama these feelings he had bottled up, but...there's just one problem. Does Kageyama even like guys? He's always around girls, besides Kiyoko and Yachi, and he seems attracted to them. Hinata just couldn't bear the thought of rejection. So, when he saw Kageyama and his "girlfriend" together...he let his confession, in the form of a letter, fall out of his hand and onto the floor, much like his dreams of Kageyama liking him back. A letter on the ground, sealed with love and affection, being trampled by many Karasuno student's feet before the hall cleared. A letter, sealed with a red heart sticker, addressed to Tobio Kageyama. A letter being picked up by a pale hand, being torn open and read, ash colored eyes scanning through the lines so messily written, but so desperately wanting to be reciprocated. Laughter rang through the halls.
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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]]