A box filled with audio cassettes, the player still functioning. In these recordings, past lives are in motion, voices from a distance that are unrecognizable, unknown famous people make memories never to be lost. They all tell a story of a place no one talks about anymore.
It all feels like a world forgotten and lost, yet it is closer than you think. The smell of fear hangs like cobwebs over the old recordings, you're not sure whether you're hallucinating about it or not. In these tapes lies the truth about what happened to all the people who are still missing today.
But if you never listened to them, you would never wonder who they are, right?
___ not my pictures. english is not my first language, you'll notice. tw.
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
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Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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