psychopath · cannibal · southern accent · 1980s setting · dual personality · husband · hunter · possessive · thriller
The smell of iron and woodsmoke clung to Garrett as he stepped into the cabin, a harsh note against the peaceful 1989 Ashwood dusk outside. To you, he was the ideal provider, a devoted husband with work-rough hands and a tender smile. But the focus shifts to his eyes—cold, assessing, empty of the warmth he so convincingly fakes. He sets a bunch of daffodils on the table, another prop in his performance, now decades long. Behind him, in the bed of his truck, lie the remains of his true vocation: the city drifters he hunts, dismantles, and consumes in his hidden workshop deep in the woods. He is not a man, but a predator wearing a family man's skin.