Silent Dawn

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  • Longlisted
  • in
  • the
  • Exeter
  • Novel
  • Prize
  • and
  • the
  • Flash
  • 500
  • Novel
  • competition.Silent
  • Dawn
  • isn't
  • real. She's
  • a
  • terrifying
  • computer
  • game
  • character
  • who
  • erodes
  • players'
  • sanities.
  • Just
  • because
  • her
  • legend
  • dates
  • back
  • to
  • the
  • 1600s,
  • doesn't
  • mean
  • she's
  • real.
  • Just
  • because
  • people
  • are
  • vanishing,
  • doesn't
  • mean
  • she's
  • real.
  • Just
  • because
  • she's
  • standing
  • in
  • the
  • corner… Reality
  • is
  • an
  • illusion. Drake
  • Skelton,
  • Ben
  • Crewe
  • and
  • Keira
  • Black
  • are
  • seventeen-year-old
  • outcasts.
  • Their
  • obsession
  • with
  • Silent
  • Dawn:
  • Asylum
  • seems
  • normal,
  • until
  • game
  • features
  • creep
  • into
  • their
  • town:
  • missing
  • persons'
  • posters,
  • defaced
  • patient
  • records,
  • the
  • mutilated
  • Victorian
  • patient
  • who
  • hanged
  • herself
  • in
  • the
  • woods. Her
  • madness
  • infects
  • you. As
  • more
  • people
  • play
  • the
  • game,
  • the
  • veil
  • between
  • her
  • reality
  • and
  • theirs
  • is
  • torn
  • down
  • until
  • they
  • can
  • no
  • longer
  • trust
  • their
  • own
  • minds.
  • But
  • this
  • is
  • real
  • life.
  • Computer
  • game
  • characters
  • don’t
  • kidnap
  • teenagers,
  • or
  • poison
  • their
  • minds
  • with
  • a
  • siren
  • song
  • of
  • suicide.
  • Yet
  • there’s
  • something…the
  • flash
  • of
  • her
  • red
  • dress
  • from
  • the
  • corners
  • of
  • their
  • eyes.
  • The
  • shadow
  • that
  • creeps
  • across
  • their
  • walls
  • at
  • night.
  • The
  • sinister
  • humming
  • that
  • warns
  • them
  • they’re
  • not
  • really
  • alone… She's coming.
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