It Lives Within
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  • Parts 5
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  • Reads 29
  • Votes 8
  • Parts 5
  • Time 26m
Ongoing, First published Oct 12, 2024
Every house has its secrets. Mine are written in blood.

I am a silent witness to a century of horror, an unwilling accomplice to an evil that turns family bonds into weapons.

When the Coopers cross my threshold seeking a fresh start, I recognize the familiar pattern. Young Emma's artistic talent starts channeling dark visions. Her mother Sarah uncovers a long-buried journal that could explain the shadows moving in forgotten corners. But understanding my curse may only hasten their destruction.
Through my walls echo the fevered rituals of my creator in 1887, the glittering parties that masked the Arlington family's descent in the 1920s, and now the Coopers' growing realization that something ancient and patient hungers within their new home.
I am both protector and prison, cursed to watch as history repeats itself. Will the Coopers unravel my tragic past in time? Or will they, like so many before them, discover too late that some doors should remain closed?
Experience a chilling supernatural horror where love becomes the deadliest weapon, told through the unique perspective of a house forced to witness its own dark legacy. Some dreams of home become nightmares from which there is no awakening.
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