Genre: speculative, horror, LGBT, NA
Content warnings: stalking, unreality, blood/death/gore, panic attacks, attempted genocide, trauma, torture
POV/tense: third person present tense
Status: first draft in progress
Length: ~20k word novelette
Summary: Ezra and Revael die on August 15th. A demon with the ability to control time is the only one who can 'save' them, making a deal to repeat the day of their deaths endlessly. But what he wants from Ezra is something that must be prevented at any cost. Ezra and Revael must find a way out of the time loop, before all of humanity pays the price.
Excerpt:
The day Ezra dies is a Wednesday, hot and bright. His watch runs backward that day. He has bigger things to worry about, though, like the car accelerating toward him as he crosses the street, his body bouncing off the hood and leaving a mirage of blood and spiderwebbed glass. Or the bolt of lightning that strikes him in a sudden summer storm, leaving his corpse Lichentenberg marked on the sidewalk. Or the shock of sound as a gun fires in the gas station parking lot and he staggers forward, clutching his chest, fingertips coming away looking like a cherry slushie.
It loops like TikToks and Instagram boomerangs. Over and over and over again. On Wednesday, August 15th, Ezra Iglesias dies like it's going out of style.
