Graduating from high school and going out into the big, bad world on your own is hard enough. But when your “bestie” and her boyfriend kidnap you and rape you in their basement, it’s the shits of the shits of the shits. And when they only give Scout food, a shower, and her diabetes medicine when they feel like it, it gets even worse.
She finally escapes, but Scout finds the rapture and the reign of the beast have come as she wasted in the dungeon. Out of the frying pan and into the conflagration. After the worst has been done to her—including how her “bestie” and her man had invited their friend over to defecate on her—can she hold on to her Christianity and become a martyr, unable to buy or sell? Or will she harden her heart and serve the Antichrist?
A. R. Braun is the author of the horror novella, 66SICK, and the horror novels, Book of Set, Book of Sprites, Book of Shadows, Dogman of Illinois, Heaven's Witches, Autonomy, The Not, and Only Women in Hell, as well as the short-story collections Phantom World, Insanity, Grimoire, and Horrorbook. He became interested in horror when he read “The Telltale Heart” as an assignment in high school. By the time he was eighteen, he had the whole Stephen King collection and started writing short stories for friends and family. His main goal was to put together a heavy metal band, and he spent many years working blue collar jobs and seeking out musicians, but never fell in with the right kind of guys.
He has numerous publication credits, including “NREM Sleep” in the D.O.A. anthology; “Freaks” in Downstate Story magazine; “The Unwanted Visitors” in the Vermin anthology; “Coven” in the Heavy Metal Horror anthology; “Remember Me?” in Horror Bound magazine; “Shades of Gray (the Symbiosis of Light and Dark)” in Micro Horror magazine; "Little Ghoul" in the Mad Men anthology and “The Interloper” in the Bonded by Blood 2: a Romance in Red anthology. Weightlifting, mixed martial arts, and audio comedy are a few of his current interests.