TETHER
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Last published Fri, May 30, 2025
He left his dad behind for one night of normal.
By morning, nothing was.
Sixteen-year-old Ben Miller just wanted to feel like a teenager, loud music, cheap beer, and a bonfire with his friends. But when something crashes out of the trees, teeth bared and blood on its breath, the night spirals into chaos. Now people are missing, someone's dead, and the world is cracking at the edges.
Ben always thought his dad, Joel, was the one falling apart.
Turns out, it's everything else.
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