795 Views 19 Favorites 3 Chapters 0 Chapters/Week 23 Readers 0 Reviews 10.1k Words Jan 5, 2025 CycleLunar With the help of an exorcism, Ashleigh Natalie “Laylee” Lee-Grenweld has conquered her demons. Now, four years after the incident that threatened to both take and define her life, she’s entering high school as a perfectly normal teenage girl. She has the chance to learn new skills, the chance to make lifelong friends, perhaps, even, the chance to fall in love. That is, if the new daemon that just appeared, slithering on the ceiling and gesturing omens of the future, would simply shut up and go away.
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Unfortunately for her, the subject of the daemon’s cryptic warnings seems to be her potential first crush — DJ, a boy with dark clothes, an inevitably forthcoming death, and a closely-kept secret that may prove as scandalous as Laylee’s own.
Content Warnings for: blood, cannibalism, death, gore, possession, religious trauma, references to assault, suffocation/strangulation
Original cover photo by Andriyko Podilnyk, used under the Unsplash license
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