Have you ever woken up in a dead cold sweat,
Thinking about your life and the people you've never met,
Dreaming of the day you'd feel my razor blades up against your chilled flesh,
The days that you evade my capture, hoping you'd never come face to face with your unraveling,
Bruised within, far deeper than under your skin,
Dead amongst your kind, you slowly creep up and devour us like sin.
You destroy thousands, pushing them over the edge,
Without making the slightest of sounds, you're the silent killer,
You're the demon disguised as a cheap life filler,
You're the pills on the nightstand, you're the mask that we hide in,
You're the sweet blasphemy,
You're the dismissed and dismayed, you're the epitome that I can find closure in,
You're the high I crave for,
You're the deadly downfall,
You are my sweet destruction,
You're my midnight thoughts,
You're my obsession,
You're the piece of me I keep hidden,
You my dear, are the forbidden.
II Warning II
This story contains mentions of suicide, self mutilation, rape, slight abuse and alcoholism.
Rowan Graves has always been sickly-weak, frail, and prone to illness. But when an unexplained hunger consumes him, it's no longer just his body that's changing; it's his very existence.
As the hunger deepens, Rowan's once-persistent appetite for food morphs into a grotesque craving for human flesh. At first, he resists, terrified by the thought of hurting anyone, but his body begins to transform, and the need becomes undeniable. His muscles stretch and shift unnaturally, his teeth sharpen, and his mind becomes clouded by the voices of those he's devoured-haunting remnants of his victims, still trapped inside him.
Desperate to find a cure, Rowan plunges into the darkness of his family's past, discovering horrifying secrets that might explain his condition-and a family curse that has plagued generations. But every day he survives, the hunger grows stronger, pulling him toward something far darker than he could have ever imagined. Now, with no choice but to feed, Rowan must navigate the terrifying reality of living as a monster, all while trying to hold onto whatever remains of his humanity.
In a world where hunger is never satisfied, Rowan Graves must choose whether to embrace the monstrous urge within him-or fight to keep the last vestiges of himself alive.