“I’m a stranger to my own soul.”

45. Let Me Tell You How I Died – Sinclair Smith

Delia finds a diary, Delia reads the diary, Delia begins acting like the original writer of the diary and it’s not clear if she’s going mad, if she’s actually the diary writer reincarnated, or whether she’s going to be murdered before she figures it all out. There’s some misdirection that’s more effective than I expected in here, although the ending is on the abrupt side.

 

If Murderface had kept a diary, it would have been about who she glared at, who she cursed, who she used her mind control powers on that day, the usual sorts of things.

 

Speaking of reincarnation and taking over a body, there’s also Murderface in Black Sunday, although she does really make it her own.
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