High Functioning
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Last published Mon, Jun 30, 2025
What happens when the most 'put-together' person starts to disappear from her own life, one piece at a time?
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Laurel 'Relly' Samuels is the kind of woman people like - dependable, composed, relentlessly polite. But something is wrong.
Beneath the small talk and carefully ironed clothes, something is splitting. There's a version of herself she can't control; one that takes over when the smiles run dry and the fear crawls back in.
As her body moves through life on autopilot, Relly finds herself unraveling in silence. Haunted by disappearing time and suffocating situations she can't seem to leave. No one notices her fading. Not even her.
Until something deeper tears through.
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High Functioning is a slow-burn psychological horror about the rot that hides under normalcy, the terrifying quiet of a life lived for others, and the invisible monsters depression leaves behind.
If you love Sharp Objects or Black Swan, then you'd adore this.
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