Cubiculum
The door is locked from the inside. But something wants in.
Merri has spent her life in a two-bedroom fortress, raised by a mother who saw every outsider as contamination. The world beyond the apartment is filth. Strangers carry disease. Safety means locked doors, scalding showers, endless vigilance. When Mother abandons Merri, she leaves a note, a confession that the fears she instilled were mistakes. Break free. Find help. Call the number. For the first time, Merri considers it.
But reaching out cracks the seal. Her whispered pleas become desperate screams. The apartment begins to betray her: thumps in the night, trash piling up, silence turning hostile, something watching from the corners. Merri calls the number Mother left behind. But what answers isn't salvation. It's something born from her solitude and fear. Something that promises the one thing she's always wanted: a cure for loneliness.
CUBICULUM is a slow-burn psychological horror novel.
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