As the World Sleeps

As the World Sleeps

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Parts 11

MatureOngoing1h 57m

Last published Thu, Apr 28, 2022

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The insomnia Julia has experienced since her brother's tragic death holds her prisoner in her own life. Every facility she's been to, she's left in the same condition she showed up in. Exhausted and unable to move forward. But when a new patient checks in to Astor House, the walls she's spent the last 5 years building are starting to crumble. But as soon as she starts to imagine a version of her future she never thought possible, something chilling from her past changes her plans entirely.

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It's 1995, and Cherry Blackthorn has always lived in the shadows of her family's mansion silenced, overlooked, and broken down by parents who worship her twin brother while treating her as a flaw to be erased. Sweet, shy, and tender-hearted, Cherry has always carried more kindness than anyone ever gave back. But after one desperate act, she is locked away in Marrowgate Asylum, a sprawling stone fortress three hours from home, where the halls never feel the same twice and the walls seem to breathe. Inside, kindness is rare, cruelty is routine, and something unseen feeds on the despair that fills every ward. Whispers echo in the vents. Shadows cling too long. Patients move like puppets to a rhythm Cherry can't hear. Yet even in her most fragile moments, Cherry refuses to let her hope die. A bunkmate with sunshine in her veins, a nurse who still remembers compassion, and an unbreakable bond with her twin all remind her that light can survive, even here. As days bleed into nights, Cherry begins to wonder is Marrowgate only a hospital for the forgotten... or a hungry thing in It's own right?

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