Who's With Liam: A Southern Psychological Horror

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Who’s With Liam by David A Lambert Liam wasn’t alone when his sister died. And whatever found him that day never left. He stood on the porch and watched the car take her. He held her hand in the street while the life slipped out of it, and something else settled in beside him—quiet, patient, and unnoticed by everyone else. In the weeks that follow, his family begins to fracture. His mother throws herself into work, trying to outrun the loss. His father disappears into long shifts at the hospital. The house grows still, heavy with a silence that doesn’t feel empty anymore. It feels occupied. When they leave Philadelphia for a small town outside Knoxville, the change is supposed to help. A fresh start. A quieter place. But the distance between them only deepens, and the feeling that began the day Iris died doesn’t fade. It gets closer. Then Liam meets Jerico. Jerico doesn’t ask him to move on. He doesn’t treat him like something broken. He listens. He understands. He stays when no one else does. And for the first time since the accident, Liam doesn’t feel alone. But Jerico wasn’t there before. No one else can see him. And the more Liam leans on him, the harder it becomes to tell where the comfort ends… and something else begins. Because Jerico doesn’t force anything. He doesn’t need to. By the time anyone realizes what’s happening— it will already be too late to ask the only question that matters. A chilling southern psychological horror about grief, control, and the moment help comes too late.

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