Hollywood Lied
READING AGE 18+
This book follows Jody Keller, a former child star whose brief brush with fame in the 1990s never really let go of him. As a five-year-old, he played the lead in a low-budget horror film called Monsters in the Closet, where he was the terrified kid who knew something lived behind his bedroom door while the adults refused to believe him. The movie demanded raw, convincing fear from him, blurring the line between acting and genuine terror, and imprinting closets, darkness, and the idea of a human monster named Georgie Matthews Junior deep into his psyche. The film bombed and quietly disappeared, but the psychological fallout didn't.
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I never planned for the last night to feel so ordinary. It started with the same restless pacing, the same twitch in my fingers, the same hollow ache behind the ribs. I’d grown used to the jitter in my hands—it was like a second heartbeat, unrhythmic and insistent. A kind of Morse code from a body begging for mercy while my mind kept d……
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