The Lights Stayed On - Salvis

(Set three years before the events leading up to "The Trial")

Almost two years after the Bologna Incident and the demise of Mrs. Packerton, the halls of Nockfell High seem quieter. It appears as if things have finally calmed down, and the dark entities which lurked in Addison Apartments were long gone. Normalcy, or whatever the group can achieve that is close to it is present, at last.

But things don't stay this way, or at least not for long.

It's senior year for Sal Fisher and his friends, and what should've been scary movie nights, exploring Nockfell, late-night guitar sessions, and parties in the basement of The Addison Apartments quickly turn into something stranger. The town still hums with secrets, buried deep in its soil, people, and silence.

When Sal reaches out to Travis, someone he once kept at arm's length, what begins as a tentative connection starts to deepen. Although things were once hostile, Sal sees something in him that others overlook, something worth knowing. And when Travis sees something he wasn't supposed to, uncovered, unmasked, and up close, it doesn't drive them apart.

Although everything ends up changing. In the midst of many growing connections, things thought to be once settled begin to unravel.

Sal starts having nightmares again. Larry, the group skeptic, swears something's watching them. And Todd's research starts pointing to things the group thought they'd buried for good. Ash, unsettled and confused by the paranormal, is unsure what to believe.

But something in Nockfell never died. And it's about to pull them all back in.

Will they find a way to escape it? Or to hold it off again? What will they discover along the way?
Read "The Lights Stayed On" to find out.

(CW: Smoking, Physical violence/abuse)
Cover art - @ae3arthl1ng on Pinterest