Oyu

Leaving the big city, Oyu has returned to the town of her birth to start over. All she wants is a quiet, stable life but someone, or something, has other plans. As a property development deepens social divisions and the summer grows hotter by the day, cracks appears in the social fabric of the town and in Oyu’s sanity.

Who are the cult who live on the hill and why are they so obsessed with her? Is she really being followed or is it all in her head? Government agents, TV ghosthunters and a cast of ordinary locals, all have their own truth but who can she trust? As the temperature rises and reality crumbles, Oyu must fight to stay sane while everything slides into madness.

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“She had stood at this door before, this exact same door, not one that looked like it, but this one, she knew it. From beyond the door came low, muted sounds, a ringing phone, familiar voices, a lonely saxophone. This latest impossibility stacked itself clumsily atop all the rest until the whole thing came tumbling down.

Oyu was running, sprinting faster than she had ever run before, every limb burning with lactic acid. There was no thought, there wasn’t even looking, just running and running and running. All around her the shadows were coming to life, reaching out for her, grasping sticky at her fleeting heels.

Her mind was blank now, her thoughts left scattered behind her. She slapped palms first into walls at corners, bouncing off and pinballing on. She tripped and sprawled and scrambled on all fours, panting and sobbing, throwing every last scrap of herself into this flight from nowhere to nowhere still.”