How do you move on when someone simply vanishes?
Or do you only convince yourself you have?
Years ago, Kayleigh watched her best friend, Gypsy, disappear during the carnival's final act; in front of the crowd one moment... the next, swallowed by shadows. Was it an illusion or something far more sinister? Kayleigh can't shake the feeling that the truth has been hiding in plain sight all along.
Now the carnival has returned and Kayleigh is pulled into a strange, unraveling world where dreams bleed into waking life and reality fractures under the weight of unanswered questions. She sees things no one else can. The deeper she sinks, the more fears take shape and sanity begins to slip.
Nothing is certain in what we see... and nothing is ever truly as it seems.
©2026 Jennifer Sahms (P)2026 Kevin Woods
