The Curse - Dusk Till Dawn
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Last published Sun, Nov 9, 2025
Some families pass down heirlooms.The Mercers are like all others, yet pass down The Drowse. A genetic curse that manifests in violent sleepwalking trances.
Elias has lived his life in the shadow of the Mercer's Blackfield House, waking with dirt under his finger nails and the taste of rust in his mouth, every night a potential episode. His cousin Noah is his mirror, seemingly able to predict each terrible event before it happens. While doctors diagnose a shared psychosis, Noah whispers a terrifying truth. That The Drowse isn't an illness, but a buried memory. A memory of something engraved deep in their bloodline.
As the line between their nightmares and reality shatters, Elias must uncover the dark secret of his lineage before the final, violent sunrise, and the thing waking up inside him soon engulfs them all.
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