B. Mabes
The Velvet Snare
Maya escapes one nightmare only to find a house where her dead mother is alive, the food never runs out, and safety feels almost real. But time bends, hunger deepens, and every comfort asks for surrender. As the house feeds on grief, memory, and need, Maya must decide whether escape is still possible, or whether paradise has already swallowed her. THE VELVET SNARE is psychological horror about false safety, grief, captivity, and the terrible cost of being given exactly what you want.
B. Mabes
Good Boy
GOOD BOY
Claire Bell thought Rue was only a dog.
A strange rescue. Loyal. Watchful. Too intelligent sometimes, but grief has a way of making people cling to whatever stays.
Then one rainy night in Portland, Rue stops in Laurelhurst Park.
He hears something Claire does not.
He finds a door where no door should exist.
And he walks through.
Claire follows.
On the other side waits the Blind Interior, an endless structure buried beneath ordinary reality. Corridors repeat. Apartment numbers loop. Rooms rebuild themselves from forgotten places. Voices belonging to dead relatives speak from behind locked doors. Mirrors move when Claire does not.
The deeper she travels, the more personal the place becomes.
The Blind Interior does not create from nothing.…