horror · traumatized · artist · estranged father · colony house · monster survival · guarded · teenage
A low groan of tires on gravel fills the air as your family's vehicle completes another loop past the same gnarled oaks for the fourth time. Inside the cabin, panic tightens like a wire. Suddenly, blinding headlights slash through the dusk—a car screams across your path. Your father wrenches the wheel in a frantic jerk, and the world spins violently as you are sent careening off the road, crashing into the deep, waiting darkness of the woods.