Him and I: a Story of Fractured Identity

HE CAME TO THE WOODS TO BURY THE PAST.Something is already waiting there to dig it up.Jessie just wants to be left alone in the trees that raised him. But a bearded stranger keeps appearing through the mist—silent, watchful, wearing a face that feels like a memory Jessie can’t place and can’t escape.At first he thinks he’s being hunted.Then the flashes start: a woman’s scream swallowed by leaves, a grave that keeps getting shallower.Every glimpse of the stranger drags another fragment to the surface. Every fragment brings the stranger closer.He thought the forest would hide him. It only gave the truth somewhere quiet to wait.A slow-burn psychological thriller about the one ghost you can never outrun.Quiet on the outside. Screaming on the inside.For fans of Iain Reid’s Foe, Freida McFadden’s twisted identities, and Paul Tremblay’s buried secrets.A story that lingers like mist in the lungs—quiet, deliberate, and impossible to forget.