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StarklyStill

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Votes 30
Parts 31
Time 6h 13m

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Reads 153
Votes 30
Parts 31
Time 6h 13m

StarklyStill

Mature

Awkward software developer John meets his new coworker, Tim, your typical, plugged-in socialite, with a perfect smile, all the right clothes, and a psychopath's dead-eyed stare. Tim's ever-escalating mind games and gaslighting gambits seek to isolate and control John. Security becomes unobtainable. Objective truth, a warped opinion. Even John's survival is in question, as Tim throws them both into a life-threatening trap. This is not a story about happy endings or triumph. It is about coping with the everyday horror around us, which can only be defeated by outlasting it.
    
     ~80K words
    Mature rating for: strong language, self-harm, and all flavors of abuse.  Nothing is graphic, but the themes are present.All Rights Reserved

1990s basedonreallife character-driven complete completed dark gaslighting nonlinear psychological psychological-thriller psychopath realistic slowburn sociopath survival suspense thriller winter

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Awkward software developer John meets his new coworker, Tim, your typical, plugged-in socialite, with a perfect smile, all the right clothes, and a psychopath's dead-eyed stare. Tim's ever-escalating mind games and gaslighting gambits seek to isolate and control John. Security becomes unobtainable. Objective truth, a warped opinion. Even John's survival is in question, as Tim throws them both into a life-threatening trap. This is not a story about happy endings or triumph. It is about coping with the everyday horror around us, which can only be defeated by outlasting it.
    
     ~80K words
    Mature rating for: strong language, self-harm, and all flavors of abuse.  Nothing is graphic, but the themes are present.

31 parts