Creative Writing: The Red Book

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What would you do if you encountered an eldritch, scarlet book embellished in gold? Would you be curious to open it?

After just breaking up with his girlfriend, High School Senior, Jared Rider's life couldn't feel any more dismal or grey. But Jared's melancholy is about metamorphose into lively color when he enters a mysterious Victorian mansion, meets a particularly unusual girl, and discovers a red book that invites him to play a dangerous game.

shimmering gold lights shower from the sky

Two figures feverishly race through fire flaming death chambers

A garden overflows with blood red roses

A boy is thrust into a bubbling lake.

Jared's senior year is about to take a terrifying turn when his world is draped in burning, hot, scarlet, RED.
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In the end the book spiderwebs together to create with an explosive, page-turning

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