Howell & Pierce: Be Transparent With Me
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Last published Thu, Mar 19, 2026
In a last ditch grab at adulthood, twenty four year old Alexander Howell signs the lease on the only place he can afford: a cramped, gritty apartment with a history that makes his skin crawl. He expects leaky pipes, loneliness, maybe cockroaches.
He doesn't expect a ghost.
Roscoe Pierce died here in 1998, brutally, unjustly, and long before he was done living. Now he is stuck in the apartment with unfinished business, buried truths, and a hunger for connection.
Together, Alexander and Roscoe have to untangle lies, navigate the feelings forming between them, and put down the thing stalking the apartment, proving that dead or alive, some people refuse to go down without a fight.
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