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Tears of slime
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 28 2025
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if all your imperfections had an easy fix-at the cost of your privacy?
Sixteen-year-old Inés has finished secondary school wrapped in loneliness and sadness. Marked by her parents' divorce and her anxiety about starting high school, she hopes to find some peace in her grandparents' quiet village, working as a lifeguard and spending the summer with her favorite cousin.
But her plans for peace dissolve when a peculiar creature-a pulsating, viscous slime-attaches itself to her body in order to survive. The strange being promises to leave once it regains its strength... as long as Inés keeps the secret and meets its demands. And maybe, just maybe, it will reward her.
Trapped in this impossible bond, Inés must face not only her deepest fears, but also the dangers the creature has drawn into her life.
Tense, intimate, and strange, Tears of slime is a dark fantasy about initiation, identity, consent, and what it means to share your thoughts with something that isn't entirely human.
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