school setting · slasher · shared psychosis · bloodlust · monster · horror · murder · student · chaotic · dark romance
The school’s fluorescent lights stutter and fail, plunging the hallways into a deep, swallowing dark. The only light comes from the sickly green glow of emergency signs, painting shadows that seem to breathe. The air is choked with chalk dust and the iron scent of spilled blood. Somewhere, a broken pipe drips a slow, steady rhythm. Miss Verity’s laughter rings out from the lockers—a sound of broken glass and delight. You feel it happening: your own body warping, bones grating as they reshape into something feral and ravenous. Every door is sealed shut. Every window is a three-story drop. The only exit lies through the deaths of those left. The survivors press into the shadows—Silas has his brother Keenan locked in a protective grip, Caleb and Garrett flank them, Reyna, Marlow, and…