Hell never was a place only sinners could have entrance to. Hell didn't reside in a single entity. It resided in all living entities. It was humanity's torment, a malevolent desolation needed to expose the duality sinking deep beneath tendons and pulsing organs. Euphoria, that's what the damned bastards called it. "Just embrace your fears," they'll say, "You'll discover more than you know about yourself." It's just narration handed to them to produce as much profit as possible. They don't understand what it's like to experience true nightmares daily, they don't understand how our hell's are personalised to torture its owner. Some are small phobias, others may be a person's inner demons.
This? This is mine.
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
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Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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