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Tears Before Bedtime
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ISBN13: 9798343021868
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 13 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 13 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jesse Morrigan isn't crazy. She just sees things that other people don't.
Every year, Jesse checks herself into a psychiatric institution for six quiet weeks - a holiday from the chaos outside. The drugs don't help her, the therapy doesn't cure her, and the staff don't understand her. But inside these walls, the world finally stops screaming.
Every year, Jesse checks herself into a psychiatric institution for six quiet weeks - a holiday from the chaos outside. The drugs don't help her, the therapy doesn't cure her, and the staff don't understand her. But inside these walls, the world finally stops screaming.
Jesse sees balloons - the drifting grey shells of the dead. The decaying remnants of consciousness that haunt the edges of reality. She's seen them since she was four years old, floating aimlessly and with vacant eyes, endlessly repeating fragments of their former lives. They're everywhere. And Jesse has spent her life trying to ignore them.
Dr. Caroline September is brought in to assess Jesse without reading her case files, to gain a fresh perspective on a girl who insists she's not ill. But the more Caroline listens, the more Jesse's impossible world begins to make a strange kind of sense. Night terrors, out-of-body slips, the boy she calls 'Eddie the deady'... none of it fits the neat boxes the institution relies on.
As Jesse reveals the truth about what she experiences, Caroline is forced to confront the limits of her training, the failures of the system she works in, and the possibility that Jesse's hallucinations aren't actually hallucinations at all. Darkly funny, unsettling, and emotionally sharp, Tears Before Bedtime is a YA/crossover supernatural tale about trauma, perception, and the terrifying things that lurk just beyond the bell curve of human experience. Perfect for readers who love:
Dr. Caroline September is brought in to assess Jesse without reading her case files, to gain a fresh perspective on a girl who insists she's not ill. But the more Caroline listens, the more Jesse's impossible world begins to make a strange kind of sense. Night terrors, out-of-body slips, the boy she calls 'Eddie the deady'... none of it fits the neat boxes the institution relies on.
As Jesse reveals the truth about what she experiences, Caroline is forced to confront the limits of her training, the failures of the system she works in, and the possibility that Jesse's hallucinations aren't actually hallucinations at all. Darkly funny, unsettling, and emotionally sharp, Tears Before Bedtime is a YA/crossover supernatural tale about trauma, perception, and the terrifying things that lurk just beyond the bell curve of human experience. Perfect for readers who love:
- psychological supernatural fiction
- unreliable realities and perceptual outliers
- dark humour woven through horror
- character-driven YA with crossover depth
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