Zk | Inner Demons

writing horror novel fiction mental-health

In which Maddy tried to do a lead-up to NaNoWriMo but kinda biffed it.

Jeff Perez has just moved to a new city and a new state with his two children. While he begins the process of adaptation just fine, his children have a hard time of things. Kayla disappears into the world of her art and Justin appears to be having more trouble. Much more trouble, and of a harder to understand nature. There’s only so much a single father can do, but as the world around them gets more and more horrifying, Jeff finds himself doing everything in his power to keep his family safe.

Synopsis

Family moves, oldest son is depressed, haunting starts, gets worse over time, solution is they all have to go to demon, surrounded by perfect calm and everything in it’s place wherever they go, tell son to kill himself, demon is stopped, but with laughter, exactly as it had willed. Everything back to normal, only the family remembers what happened, only thing different is oldest son still dead of suicide

Really, the story is about Jeff (and thus, the reader) being totally unable to comprehend what Justin is going through. It is big and horrifying and totally inaccessible to anyone but Justin. The ultimate folly is not asking for help.

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