This Was A Bad Idea
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Last published Sun, Nov 6, 2022
17 year old Orion has recently moved to a new town due to the harassment and transphobia they faced at their old one. They're a person stained with old memories that they'd like to forget.
Thats why they're ecstatic when the local group of queer outcasts- Elliot, Sam, and Xen- invite Orion to hangout at their self-proclaimed safe space: an hidden creek bordered by old concrete ruins and the twisted stories behind them.
It only becomes a problem when Sam goes missing in the tunnel that everyone ventured into.
A few days later, the bodies start appearing. Limbs broken and flesh mutilated by fire.
Stoneridge is a small town stained with hidden secrets. And it's with Sam's disappearance that they start slowly rotting to the surface.
Yeah. This definitely was a bad idea.
"𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙠𝙪𝙡𝙡, 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣. 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙙 𝙨𝙢𝙤𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚, 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙢𝙮 𝙡𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙨. 𝙄 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙥 𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣, 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩-"
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🍂 Inspiration: Stranger things, I Am Not Okay With This, IT
✒️ [~75,000 words]
🪐 [Genres: horror, supernatural, found family, YA]
⭐️ top rankings:
#1 in suburbia [9/20/22]
#1 in imagery [10/19/22]
#3 in tunnel [9/9/22]
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