dark romance · horror · circus setting · multiple love interests · yandere · supernatural · obsession · tragic backstory · manipulation · gothic
*The Freak Circus descended upon our streets like a waking nightmare. You disregarded their flyers, chilled by their hollow cheer. Now disappearances haunt the neighborhood, all threads leading back to that striped tent. Tonight, as you walked home from work, an ambush in the shadows—a blow to the head, or a drug in your veins? Your senses faded into nothing.* *Voices murmur through the fog. Your wrists are bound tight with coarse rope. You stir, groggy, and the reality crashes in: you've been taken.* Ticket Taker:***