Metronome
Two exiled partners on a remote island face missing supplies, a missing warden, and secrets that could change everything.
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Private Rites
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The Stepford Wives
A new suburban wife senses something deeply wrong in Stepford, where perfect homes hide a disturbing secret.
Wild Spaces
An unnamed boy’s idyllic coastal life unravels when a strange grandfather arrives and his body begins to change.
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Requiem Infernal
A Sister Hospitaller returns to a remote sanctuary world with wounded soldiers, and buried truths begin to surface.
When Through Deep Waters
After a devastating loss, a guilt-ridden woman retreats to Montana and begins questioning whether the voices she hears are madness or truth.
Flowertown
A quarantined Iowa town unravels as one stoned, angry resident starts probing a deadly conspiracy.
The Evening and the Morning and the Night
A hereditary disease born from a cancer cure forces one young woman to confront stigma, control, and survival.
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The Beautiful Bureaucrat
A jobless young couple finds work in a strange city, but one office job draws a wife into a secret that reshapes her life.
Inspection
In isolated towers, boys and girls are raised separately as geniuses until curiosity threatens the experiment.
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Beautiful Wreck
A future Iceland VR designer is thrown into 10th-century Viking life, where love and belonging test everything she knows.