All those fairy tales you read as a child, they were lying to you. Those happy endings never lasted. Cinderella? Her stepmother went insane and killed everyone in the kingdom, killing Prince Charming right in front of her eyes, tying her up so all she could do was watch in horror as her once so handsome prince was mangled, torn to pieces from limb to limb. Snow White? One day, the dwarfs were mining in a questionable cave area. Dopey cut his finger off with a bear trap that was placed in the cave, screaming at the top of his lungs. The cave collapsed, leaving Snow White alone with only her prince to comfort her. Turned out, he was in on everything with the Evil Queen the whole time. He killed her a week later with a poisoned apple, one poisoned with lead, a dusting deadly enough to kill her. Alice? She wasn't in Wonderland, she was in a coma. When she fell down the rabbit hole, the paramedics found her. The whole time she mumbled something about Wonderland, hallucinating a whole entire world. She died within a few days of the fall. I am my own unique case, so let me tell you the tale I have about myself. My name is Ciara Hollows, and I was told many of these stories as a child. This is the story of how I knew all these sad endings.
And why my last name is Hollows, if you please.
Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers.
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