Splinter
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  • Reads 232
  • Votes 10
  • Parts 4
  • Time 27m
Ongoing, First published Jan 20, 2015
It's not okay when you're already mentally unstable. And, it's not okay when you're mentally unstable and have nightmares. It's not okay when you cannot control your outbursts and the moments where you could have died; would die.

Now picture being surrounded by this big and gigantic forest, well woods actually, and pretend you have just been in an accident. Don't worry, you're alive, that's all that matters. It will matter eventually. Picture the car upside down and your friends are upside down with you. Do you see them?

This may be an allusion, might be all those prescription pills that you took. It's almost dark, cold, and you might die; you just might. Although your future is already set in stone and off to ship, you have to at least try. You have to because it's either die by the hands of someone else, and far dangerous than you, die by the woods or from your unstable mind. And, I know you do not want to die by the hands of someone else. Not yet at least.

Do you?
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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. ***** 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]]