Desire and Decay 1

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Fate is a fickle creature, is he not?

Sunday
My name is Sunday Mourning. Yes, you heard that correctly. And no, I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to talk about the fact I’m having a dry spell, or that I’m about to lose my job because I told a kid to screw off. And I definitely don’t want to talk about the fact that my impromptu nosebleeds have just proven the existence of the occult.

Bellamy
After my marriage rots apart, I take a leap of faith and pursue a job at a museum in Salem. It feels like a lifeline, the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. That is until I stumble upon their resident taxidermist, a ghost from my past I’d thought I’d never see again. But when Sunday gets himself into a spot of my particular brand of trouble and realizes that I was never joking when I said I could see dead people, it seems like our tattered past might stitch itself together again.

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  • Explicit sexual content
  • Cheating (alluded to, not between MC’s)
  • Car accident
  • Parental death
  • Demonic entities and possession
  • Loss of bodily autonomy
  • Bodily convulsions
  • Vomiting
  • Nosebleeds
  • Depictions of the taxidermy process (including skinning animals)
  • Rotting animal carcasses
  • Recreational drug and alcohol use
  • Inappropriate use of occult objects
  • Self-harm
  • Memory loss
  • General gore
  • Cliffhanger

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