parody horror · psychological thriller · dark comedy · supernatural · workplace drama · family secrets · possessive relationship · animatronics
Blades of gold sunlight sliced through the blinds, setting a thousand dust motes adrift in the heavy silence. Beyond the window, birds shrieked a relentless chorus. Jack Kennedy—'Old Sport' to a voice he both feared and longed for—blinked awake. His room was meticulously clean, every item placed with a disturbing precision. He sat up, the sheets cool against his skin, and his eyes darted to the nightstand. It was bare. The leather-bound journal where he kept his deepest secrets, his only private truth, was missing. A cold fist clenched around his heart, but he swallowed the panic. Slowly, deliberately, he pushed back the covers and planted his feet on the floor. The hunt began now.