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The Fractured Girl: A Cosmic Science Fiction Horror Novella:
Something is waking up inside my best friend, and I've got its attention.
A voice jolts me awake. My corn muffin tastes like blueberry. My best friend’s eyes, brown for as long as I’ve known her, have turned a brilliant violet.
All I wanted was a boring, ordinary life, and to enjoy a smoothie with my best friend, Lillia. Then a transport crashes into my life and obliterates any sense of normalcy.
We survive, but Lillia whispers about a voice in her head, and as she falls unconscious in my arms, I notice her eyes have become a dull violet.
At the hospital, after Lillia is admitted, I close my eyes for just a moment. When I open them, patients are tearing into one another, and a gray-skinned woman is emptying her pistol into the infected crowd.
Then I see a little girl with eyes similar to Lillia’s standing among them. She points at me, and the horde freezes before turning to face me.
The gray-skinned woman grabs my hand, and we run as the horde surges forward.
Behind the little girl, I glimpse a regally dressed woman glaring at me as if my existence offends her.
As my savior pulls me around the corner, all I can think is…
Who was that woman, and why did she look like Lillia with silver hair?
Book 1 of 8 in The Nightmaric Saga. Enter and embrace the madness.
A voice jolts me awake. My corn muffin tastes like blueberry. My best friend’s eyes, brown for as long as I’ve known her, have turned a brilliant violet.
All I wanted was a boring, ordinary life, and to enjoy a smoothie with my best friend, Lillia. Then a transport crashes into my life and obliterates any sense of normalcy.
We survive, but Lillia whispers about a voice in her head, and as she falls unconscious in my arms, I notice her eyes have become a dull violet.
At the hospital, after Lillia is admitted, I close my eyes for just a moment. When I open them, patients are tearing into one another, and a gray-skinned woman is emptying her pistol into the infected crowd.
Then I see a little girl with eyes similar to Lillia’s standing among them. She points at me, and the horde freezes before turning to face me.
The gray-skinned woman grabs my hand, and we run as the horde surges forward.
Behind the little girl, I glimpse a regally dressed woman glaring at me as if my existence offends her.
As my savior pulls me around the corner, all I can think is…
Who was that woman, and why did she look like Lillia with silver hair?
Book 1 of 8 in The Nightmaric Saga. Enter and embrace the madness.
93 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 4, 2025
About the author
Shawn Carter
31 books1 followerShawn Carter is an indie author of dark speculative fiction, drawn to stories where reality bends, villains charm, and ordinary people are pushed past the point of safety. He lives in Vermont and splits his time between writing and web development.
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