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Last Rites: a short horror novella
Don't let the ancient, dark, long-forgotten words feast on the void of your loneliness...
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Eli Phillips doesn’t fit in. Moving from one town to the next for most of his childhood has turned him into a lonely kid, too socially awkward to make friends.
When two bullies paint a target on his back, Eli finds himself cornered with unwanted attention.
Until he stumbles upon the book.
It’s massive and old, half buried in the forest floor, moldy, damp. Scriptum Obscurus arches across the cover in thick, gnarled letters.
As soon as he turns the first page, his life is changed forever. He can’t eat, can’t sleep, can’t think of anything but the book. The blank pages begin to fill, night after night, with his own handwriting. Words he has no memory of writing. Words in another language that he has no name for.
It’s a ritual.
And when it’s performed, blood will run as black as the ink that stains his fingers.
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Eli Phillips doesn’t fit in. Moving from one town to the next for most of his childhood has turned him into a lonely kid, too socially awkward to make friends.
When two bullies paint a target on his back, Eli finds himself cornered with unwanted attention.
Until he stumbles upon the book.
It’s massive and old, half buried in the forest floor, moldy, damp. Scriptum Obscurus arches across the cover in thick, gnarled letters.
As soon as he turns the first page, his life is changed forever. He can’t eat, can’t sleep, can’t think of anything but the book. The blank pages begin to fill, night after night, with his own handwriting. Words he has no memory of writing. Words in another language that he has no name for.
It’s a ritual.
And when it’s performed, blood will run as black as the ink that stains his fingers.
48 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 21, 2025
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July 6, 2026
Inky black heart
Last Rites is horror filled. Eli is the new kid and he just so happens to run into two town bullies. Dixon and Cody think they own the town, even if they are only teenagers. Eli finds an old, creepy book in a broken down church in the woods! Can you guess what's in it? You gotta read Last Rites to find out the rest.
Last Rites is horror filled. Eli is the new kid and he just so happens to run into two town bullies. Dixon and Cody think they own the town, even if they are only teenagers. Eli finds an old, creepy book in a broken down church in the woods! Can you guess what's in it? You gotta read Last Rites to find out the rest.
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