6/30/2023 0 Comments The Spiral by Nikki DeKeuster![]() ![]() ![]() What I discover will be bittersweet, like chocolate-covered razor blades.Ĭontent warning: Mature content and themes. I’ll have to double back on my fading footprints and find what passes for the truth before my sixth sense becomes my only sense. The question is, whose grin is it? Mine, yours, or something curiously sinister? As reality twists into a labyrinthian spiral, each step I take brings a little more tragedy and a little less me. The pressure of keeping everyone’s emotions at bay is cracking my jury-rigged mental wall into a Cheshire grin. I can't affect what I can't feel, so he's safe.right? ![]() The finest compliment I can give to a work of. ![]() I was not solicited to review her debut novel. I was a beta reader for her connected novelette Red String. Disclaimer: The author of this work, Nikki DeKeuster, is one of my colleagues and friends. He's emotionally silent but breaks the sound barrier on my other five senses. Februby Austin Conrad, posted in Reviews. Then there's the delicious bit of trouble from down the way. But, you know, it’s also kinda fun-if you don’t count the heart attacks, fatal job promotions, and Choco Tacos with criminally wasted potential left in my wake. Especially when people's moods start swinging at my whim. An animalistic fear that never really leaves me. Until I’m inexplicably lost, for the first time, in emotions that aren’t mine. That stupid, rotted ol’ barn in backwoods Maine starts out as just another place to feed my best friend’s insatiable ghost-hunting habit. My name is Amy Durene, and I've got a story to tell before there isn't enough left of me to tell it. Love, on the other hand.love is limitless. Fear only causes three reactions: fight, flight, or freeze. ![]()
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