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Beneath The Static
How far would you go to keep a secret?
Everyone has them. Some are bigger than others. All of us wish to keep them private.
Especially the group of teenagers known as “The Sages”, each with dark secrets locked deep within them.
Secrets that someone wishes to drag to the surface.
In a port town known as Mantis Bay, a group of friends gather in a basement in a bid to film the next internet viral hit. Reaction content is on fire right now. They just need to find something to react to.
That's how they discover Beneath The Static... and its disturbing presenter JJ Watson.
What follows is a series of broadcasts that begin to unravel their collective truths. The Sages must overcome emotional and physical trauma, past sins and nightmares to confront JJ Watson... but can they survive their secrets being dragged into the light?
Can they survive what lurks Beneath The Static?
“TJ Lea conjures a nightmare version of nostalgic youth. A surreal trip through secrets and revelations that hit home, Beneath the Static feels like a memory of a nightmare that you can't stop thinking about.” Chelsea Rebecca, Dead Meat Podcast
"TJ Lea takes you on a bizarre and creepy channel surfing session through increasingly horrific programs. You'll be too disturbed, too hypnotized, to turn it off." - C.B. Jones, author of The Rules of the Road
Everyone has them. Some are bigger than others. All of us wish to keep them private.
Especially the group of teenagers known as “The Sages”, each with dark secrets locked deep within them.
Secrets that someone wishes to drag to the surface.
In a port town known as Mantis Bay, a group of friends gather in a basement in a bid to film the next internet viral hit. Reaction content is on fire right now. They just need to find something to react to.
That's how they discover Beneath The Static... and its disturbing presenter JJ Watson.
What follows is a series of broadcasts that begin to unravel their collective truths. The Sages must overcome emotional and physical trauma, past sins and nightmares to confront JJ Watson... but can they survive their secrets being dragged into the light?
Can they survive what lurks Beneath The Static?
“TJ Lea conjures a nightmare version of nostalgic youth. A surreal trip through secrets and revelations that hit home, Beneath the Static feels like a memory of a nightmare that you can't stop thinking about.” Chelsea Rebecca, Dead Meat Podcast
"TJ Lea takes you on a bizarre and creepy channel surfing session through increasingly horrific programs. You'll be too disturbed, too hypnotized, to turn it off." - C.B. Jones, author of The Rules of the Road
- GenresHorror
156 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 21, 2022
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January 12, 2023
There's a lot to like in this novella, if you're a fan of horror that revolves around unknowable events/forces. The story is entertaining, and the twists helped keep me coming back.
Where the book lets itself down is the execution. The writing and editing are not up to the quality of the story. It suffers from most of the usual ailments that afflict indie authors: improperly used homophones, sentence fragments and run-ons, misspellings, repeated paragraphs, etc.
I was already interested in the Sturgeon stories from various No Sleep podcasts, so I knew what to expect, and knew the story would be worth the warts.
Where the book lets itself down is the execution. The writing and editing are not up to the quality of the story. It suffers from most of the usual ailments that afflict indie authors: improperly used homophones, sentence fragments and run-ons, misspellings, repeated paragraphs, etc.
I was already interested in the Sturgeon stories from various No Sleep podcasts, so I knew what to expect, and knew the story would be worth the warts.
January 4, 2023
Not bad, but doesn't really catch me as much as the other 2 books about strangeness in Sturgeon have done. It reminded me more of a screen play than a book, but I might be on my own with that opinion.
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