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A young anxiety junkie becomes trapped in her home when her best friend's boyfriend gets possessed by a savage demon, hellbent on her demise.

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0 Reviews | 71 pages | 8 months ago | Draft 1
All her life, the charismatic yet oddly quiet Sally has struggled with irrational fears. She comfortably keeps away from strangers and delights in leaving the house at odd hours.
After a messy breakup with a longtime fiancé, her motivation to get better wanes. Her attachment to her secluded ranch house is becoming stronger, her fear of the outside world becoming darker. Sally transforms her idyllic home into a fortress, one that no one can get into - or out of - easily, until...

One dark night she is startled awake by a bleeding stranger on her doorstep. Screaming for help, Sally has no choice - half blind, bleeding, and on the edge of death - she lets them in.

Following close behind, down Sally’s lonely dirt road, appears another figure.

Also covered in blood, but not his own.

She runs to all doors and windows, locking everything in sight. Stuck outside, he demands Sally return the stranger so he can finish what he started - determined to not let either live through the night. Stuck inside, Sally’s self-made prison is now the only thing keeping her from saving herself.

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