Margins
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Blood Orange
2025
First Published
4.69
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106
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Art student Graham Ellis is focused on making it through the semester and paying his bills when old enemy Eva Haddon returns to the neighborhood he grew up in. Graham has had a bone to pick with the Haddons ever since they tore down the affordable housing units and undeveloped land behind it that he grew up in. He becomes obsessed with trying to stop her from finishing what her father started ten years ago. What he doesn’t expect is help from a mysterious figure who calls themself the Caretaker. They claim that they can drive Eva and her family away once and for all, but they need Graham’s help. Despite his reservations, Graham follows their nonsensical instructions and waits for something to happen, but as time passes, all he notices is the strange way the plants are growing around Eva’s house and that the mysterious Caretaker is nowhere to be found to finish the plan. But there’s something darker lurking, in Graham’s own memory and what he recalls from the years before he left the suburbs and moved to the city. As he struggles to piece together everything that doesn’t make sense, he will have to choose between two worlds: his, and the Caretaker’s. This 26,000 word novella is a dark paranormal romance with horror elements that isn't suitable for anyone under the age of 18. Please read the content warnings before purchasing.

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mars adler
mars adler
Author · 7 books
mars adler is a queer and trans author in their mid-twenties. they currently reside on the side of a mountain in Colorado with their dog, and unfortunately hold a corporeal form. they write speculative fiction with a focus on things that terrify them (absolutely everything), and morally grey queer characters. when not writing, they can be found painting, making tea, and trying to become part of the forest on hikes.
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