2 minutes of the deadliest fiction you’ll ever read in your life.
Chapter Eleven of SEETHINGS III is the novel’s most explosive turning point—where seduction, violence, delusion, and moral collapse reach a horrifying crescendo.
After weeks of surveillance and psychological grooming, Mitchell finally lures Sandra into a face-to-face date at the Moreton Bay Boat Club. On the surface, it looks innocent: dinner, flirting, and a theatrically glamorous red dress. But beneath it all, Mitchell is studying her every move—her body language, her phone use, her desire to be seen, and her craving for male validation. Sandra is playful, sensual, and deeply wounded from past relationships—and Mitchell sees every vulnerability as an opening.
The date moves from the restaurant to a moonlit cliff-top lookout, then down to a secluded beach where the storm-swelled night becomes electric. What begins as consensual intimacy shifts—slowly, then violently—into something far more sinister. As a lightning storm erupts overhead, Mitchell’s Beast takes full control. His sexual aggression merges with ritualistic precision, escalating until Sandra can no longer breathe or fight back.
The storm, the cliffs, the sea, the red dye running from her hair—every element becomes part of Mitchell’s macabre theatre.
But the most chilling moment arrives after Sandra’s death: Pastor Tony Brindell, Mitchell’s long-time confidant and fellow predator, emerges from the shadows as a hidden witness to the entire event. Their confrontation reveals shared guilt, shared delusions, and shared danger. And yet Tony cannot bring himself to intervene or even adjust Sandra’s body.
Mitchell disposes of her clothing with cold, nautical logic, sails into the night, and feels… peace.
The Beast is fed.
If you want a thriller that fearlessly explores the darkest corners of human desire, control, and moral collapse, SEETHINGS III is essential reading. Available now at SMASHWORDS.COM.
–Michael (Dark fiction. Author of SEETHINGS (the first book), free for a limited time)
Love, lust, and lies collide on land and water. A temptress, a faithful wife, and a photographer haunted by shadows drift into a world of seduction, betrayal, and control.
Marriages unravel, secrets surface, and civility dissolves into primal instinct. Nothing is safe. No one is innocent.
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