The Book

The Book ..Chapter 1

By Sooz006 on Tue, 28 Jan 2025

The Book. Chapter 1 It’s dark. I’m trapped. Let me out. No, seriously. Get me out of here. I can sing for my supper. Am I living in a box? Am I...

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The Book: Chapter 2

By Sooz006 on Wed, 29 Jan 2025

Chapter 2 Dr Alice Grant folded the empty cardboard box with a grunt, pressing the corners together until the tape crumpled in protest. She put it...

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The Book: Chapter 3

By Sooz006 on Thu, 30 Jan 2025

Chapter 3 The next day, Alice didn’t want to leave the tranquillity of the wooden bench in the remembrance garden behind the annexe. She was in a...

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The Book: chapter 4

By Sooz006 on Fri, 31 Jan 2025

Summer made Alice happy, and her life felt perfect. She was overworked and underpaid like every health professional in the world, but she thrived on...

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The Book: Chapter 5

By Sooz006 on Sat, 01 Feb 2025

They’ve got no idea. Sweet FA. These people are Kafkaesque puppets dangling on strings, and guess who’s holding the wires? Don’t get me wrong, I can...

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The Book: Chapter 6

By Sooz006 on Sun, 02 Feb 2025

Chapter 6 Alice went into her office at the start of another shift: same shit, different day. The avalanche of paperwork had bred overnight. Where...

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The Book: Chapter 7

By Sooz006 on Mon, 03 Feb 2025

Eddie’s head snapped up, his scrawny neck all sinewy. He looked like a ventriloquist’s dummy. His eyes were bloodshot, locking onto hers, and the...

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The Book: Chapter 8

By Sooz006 on Tue, 04 Feb 2025

The hospital had a different mood at night. Even on good nights, the empty halls created an oppressive feeling that pressed on the soul. It was a...

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The Book: Chapter 9

By Sooz006 on Wed, 05 Feb 2025

Alice had brought the book home to read, though it repulsed her and she didn’t know why she’d done it. Her house felt contaminated, as though the...

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The Book: Chapter 10

By Sooz006 on Sat, 08 Feb 2025

The forest closed in, shadows thickening as the rain blurred shapes ahead that seemed to move—and hide—and elude her. The shadows deepened as the...

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The Book: Chapter 11.

By Sooz006 on Sun, 09 Feb 2025

She fumbled with her bag, stuffing in a notebook, her keys, and her phone. She hadn’t slept much again. Mick was still in hospital after an operation...

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The Book: Chapter 12

By Sooz006 on Mon, 10 Feb 2025

Alice sat in her cosy reading nook trying to take her mind off her problems with Mick and the fallout from work. The board had expressed concerns...

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The Book: Chapter 13

By Sooz006 on Tue, 11 Feb 2025

Chapter 13 At home, Alice expected to see Mick in every room. The experience the night before had unsettled her. She was frightened. But mostly, she...

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The Book: Chapter 14

By Sooz006 on Wed, 12 Feb 2025

Chapter 14 Alice tried to convince herself that she was overworked, that the book’s stories were an elaborate coincidence, and that candyfloss grew...

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The Book: Chapter 15

By Sooz006 on Thu, 13 Feb 2025

Don’t bore me with predictability, Alice. I’d hate to end this prematurely. But, darling, give me some sport. I need a challenge—otherwise, I see no...

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The Book: Chapter 16

By Sooz006 on Fri, 14 Feb 2025

Something had woken her with a jolt, and by the time Alice reached the bottom of the pit, a sickening feeling clawed at her stomach. She flung back...

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The Book: Chapter 17

By Sooz006 on Sat, 15 Feb 2025

Alice’s life was unbearable. When she put the book down and went upstairs, Mick barely spoke to her. When he did, resentment made her skin crawl. He...

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The Book: Chapter 19

By Sooz006 on Tue, 18 Feb 2025

Voudou does her stupidity know no bounds? Oh, she makes me laugh. The arrogance of mortals. They clutch at the unknown with their sweaty hands,...

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The Book: Chapter 20

By Sooz006 on Wed, 19 Feb 2025

The book was back. Alice wasn’t surprised. She knew what it was the second she saw the brown paper parcel on her desk. Its vibration filled her head...

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The Book: Chapter 21

By Sooz006 on Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Alice sat in the staffroom, staring at the book. It rarely used her name directly. It was a bastard, using cryptic rhymes and twisted riddles...

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The Book: Chapter 22

By Sooz006 on Sat, 22 Feb 2025

Alice was delighted when she saw the stunning flower arrangement on her desk. And Mara followed her in with a huge grin on her face. ‘Somebody’s...

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The Book: Chapter 23

By Sooz006 on Sun, 23 Feb 2025

‘Betty, may I speak to Tommy?’ Alice asked. ‘No.’ Betty was agitated, her pitchy voice sharper than usual. Her tone carried a beating-stick of...

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The Book: Chapter 26

By Sooz006 on Fri, 07 Mar 2025

She stared at the book. It lay on her desk, unmoving, but, as always, it lurked. It made its presence felt. It was always there, waiting to destroy...

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The Book: Chapter 27

By Sooz006 on Sat, 08 Mar 2025

Our Alice, always asking the wrong questions and peering into the abyss as if it won’t stare back and wink. You see Mick in your room, good doctor...

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The Book: Chapter 28

By Sooz006 on Sun, 09 Mar 2025

Alice’s phone rang as she packed up her things at the hospital. She smiled at first—Mick’s name flashing on the screen still gave her butterflies,...

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The Book: Chapter 30

By Sooz006 on Tue, 11 Mar 2025

They sat at Alice’s kitchen table with the book. After the shock of the night before, they’d driven to her house because neither of them wanted to be...

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The Book: Chapter 31

By Sooz006 on Wed, 12 Mar 2025

I see them. I burn. She dares defile my pages with her wretched scrawl. The deranged human thinks she is a match for me. Me? She believes her ink can...

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The Book: Chapter 32

By Sooz006 on Thu, 13 Mar 2025

Alice and Mick sat at the dining table, still cluttered with cereal bowls from breakfast, but neither of them cared. The table, usually reserved for...

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The Book: Chapter 33

By Sooz006 on Fri, 14 Mar 2025

London greeted them in the early evening with grey skies and drizzle. Mist wrapped around the old buildings, hiding their secrets. The city was a...

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The Book: Chapter 34

By Sooz006 on Sat, 15 Mar 2025

Alice dragged herself into the hospital, running on fumes and caffeine. She ached from the overnight drive back from London and barely had time to...

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The Book: Chapter 35

By Sooz006 on Sun, 16 Mar 2025

Alice and Mick arrived in London on Tuesday morning. The city rose above them with so many tall buildings when they were used to open spaces and...

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The Book: Chapter 37

By Sooz006 on Wed, 19 Mar 2025

Security was coming. Alice pressed herself flat against the door, fighting her rising panic. The buzz of radio static came to her, punctuated by the...

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The Book: Chapter 38

By Sooz006 on Thu, 20 Mar 2025

She was locked in a cubicle in the staff bathroom. Time was irrelevant, but she’d been there a while, listening to the dull hum of the madness...

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The Book: Chapter 39

By Sooz006 on Fri, 21 Mar 2025

I’m tired. The game is not living up to my expectations. I am weary of this host. With her trembling hands and frantic eyes, Alice Grant is a good...

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The Book: Chapter 40

By Sooz006 on Sat, 22 Mar 2025

Alice tried to focus on vital research, but the repercussions of her job loss made it difficult to concentrate. She’d expected to be a doctor forever...

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The Book: Chapter 41

By Sooz006 on Sun, 23 Mar 2025

The road up-country from Barrow to Ravenglass was notoriously bad but undeniably beautiful. Mick told her to relax and enjoy the drive, but he might...

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The Book: Chapter 42

By Sooz006 on Mon, 24 Mar 2025

The young girl cowered and the monk loomed over her. Her arms were held out defensively, trying to disappear into the stone, and her face was frozen...

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The Book: Chapter 43

By Sooz006 on Tue, 25 Mar 2025

The Young Mistress in the Shadows. New words had appeared in the book overnight. ‘The girl in the etching? Is that who you mean? Please, tell me...

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The Book: Chapter 44

By Sooz006 on Wed, 26 Mar 2025

You thought it was him, didn’t you? I can feel your certainty, Alice. The way you whisper his name and turn every brittle page in search of Brother...

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The Book: Chapter 46

By Sooz006 on Sat, 29 Mar 2025

They didn’t have time to breathe. The soil settled over Tristan’s remains, and the book snapped open. Fresh ink oozed across the page in strong,...

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The Book Chapter 47

By Sooz006 on Sun, 30 Mar 2025

The book had been silent for too long. It refused to give them anything. Alice and Mick had left the courthouse in a haze of failure. The second task...

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The Book: Chapter 48

By Sooz006 on Mon, 31 Mar 2025

The morning sun shone, gilding the kitchen with the illusion of peace and the promise of finality. The lights hummed, casting golden halos over the...

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The Book: chapter 49

By Sooz006 on Wed, 02 Apr 2025

The choking stench of burned plastic and scorched wood clung to the hairs at the back of his throat, suffocating him despite the breathing apparatus...

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The Book: Chapter 50

By Sooz006 on Thu, 03 Apr 2025

The room was sterile, though Mick had tried to make it homely with a few personal touches, but there’s only so much you can do against the colours he...

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The Book: Chapter 51

By Sooz006 on Thu, 03 Apr 2025

Hi. Yes, you, my reader. Don’t be shy. I’m glad you could make it. Let’s not bore each other with names. You’ve read my story. Sad, but true, and let...

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The Book: Chapter 51

By Sooz006 on Thu, 03 Apr 2025

You’re next!

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The Book: Do Not Open ......