Rose Frankfurt loses a part of herself after her best friend Bridget falls into a coma after a car accident that was her fault. She finds herself going to every place, and doing everything that reminded her of Bridget, slowly losing herself even more.
As time passes, Rose realizes she needs to get her life together and being applying to colleges, but her efforts in school decreased dramatically after the accident. She began to lose hope, until she began seeing Bridget one day, but conscious. However, Rose is the only one that can see her.
As Rose's mental health declines more and more after the accident, she begins to develop dark thoughts, and gets the idea to write a story, but have Bridget as the main character, controlling her, and talking to her as she writes a story with a horrifying storyline.
Rose writes a full-length story in a truly disturbing manner that no reader could understand, causing the book to become a national headline, landing her offered from universities nationwide.
However, no one knows the truth about Rose's condition, and that Bridget has been in a coma the entire time, unconscious.
"Control Freak" highlights the disturbing truth of Schizophrenia, and how dark it can be.
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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