Up On High Mountain
The High Mountain Church has a single goal. Digest and consume. It's a monster, whose goals are beyond understanding. Only one thing is known for sure. It has a favorite food. Across every parallel reality, the church takes one woman, over and over again. In all her iterations, and all her forms. There's no way out, and nowhere to hide forever. It'll have them all in the end. Stella Carson is just its newest victim.
It's hard to reignite a romance with the girl you saw be brutally murdered in High School. It's harder when she starts doing killing of her own. It's impossible when you're both trapped in hell.
Inspired by works like: Dungeon Meshi, Mastaba Snoopy, and that one live recording of No Children, by the Mountain Goats where only the audience is singing.
Stats: 6 chapters, 17.7K words.
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- Slight spelling changesOct 29, 2024
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In a nexus of realities, there’s a church that collects and slowly devours every version of a single woman it can find across parallel realities. When it collects Stella Carson, a woman, whose life was ruined by the brutal murder of her High School girlfriend it may have bitten off more than it can chew though. Because unlike the many other iterations of herself here, Stella is already haunted. And when her ghost appears in the church and begins taking out others while looking for her, things take an even darker turn.
Told in a strange and twisting narrative, with very intense scenes of horror, this story hits you like the water from a broken dam and after tearing you away doesn’t let you up for air until you’ve followed the story to its haunting conclusion. It combines cosmic horror with a murder mystery featuring two toxic lesbians and the constant questioning of reality both in Stella’s internal narrative and the world surrounding them.
I really enjoyed reading this one, if you are looking for a quick, horrifying read, definitely check it out.
This is wild, omg. Good stuff, very toxic!!! You really nailed the vibes there.
I appreciate the community copy. Thank you, this seems intriguing.