Loved itCome With Apples I really think is the perfect novella. I think it should be here. it's ominous and weird. It has a great explanation.
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Comfort Me With Apples (2021)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Everything is perfect. It's just that he's away so much. So often. He works so hard. She misses him. And he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband and everything is perfect. But sometimes Sophia wonders about things. Strange things. Dark things. The look on her husband's face when he comes back from a long business trip. The questions he will not answer. The locked basement she is never allowed to enter. And whenever she asks the neighbors, they can't quite meet her gaze... But everything is perfect. Isn't it?
- ISBN:
- 9781250816207
- Length:
- 112 pages
Genres: fantasy, horror, mystery, thriller
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Loved itcomfort me with apples was a good time not a long time I did enjoy it ... I think it was a really fun time in a sense that it's like a little bite-sized Black Mirror episode