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I loveloveLOVE the idea of a book starting with an epilogue, and ending in a prologue. Specifically a book where everyone dies really traumatic deaths, but before, they were as happy as butterflies. Like, it starts off with the last character alive (one that most likely wishes it were them who died, and not their beloved friends/family) reflecting, but not be like "oh blah blah blah everyone died, sally slit her throat, jenny fell of a building, blah blahbalhaka" like no: i want it to be DEEP ASF. like, phycological lay ruined before even fully starting the book, but not spoiling everything. Then, it starts off happy, whoopsadaisyyoohoo, soft as a kitten's fur, but slowly goes downhill. Like slowburn, but utterly tragic murders and suicides. Then, when finnishing, it ends off with a prologue. Of a glimpse of everyone's friendship, before everyone fucking died. Preferably when everyone was significantly younger, like kids—pre-teens—early teens. And it shows the characters being completely opposite of what they were turned into during the tragedy of it all. Like, the grumpy one is giggling their ass off while rolling in the mud with dog shit in their hair. Like, make the "prologue" kill people more than the people actually killed in the book. Make it make people SOBBING under tables, seeing their favourite characters so innocently pure. So HAPPY. Make people miss the characters even more after seeing them all together. Like seeing the crew of five survive before they got stuck in the woods. Like seeing sidney and her mum playing before her death and the ghost face shit. There are obviously better examples/methaphors/references and words to use, but that's all I could think of so fuck off.
Idk just an idea wink wink
Note:::::: i have so many book ideas oml.