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Telecommuting

By L .Marie Wood
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Publisher Description

Working from home has its perks, being able to attend meetings in your pajamas chief among them. But when the house you occupy all day is empty - when the only voice you hear after work comes through television speakers, it can get a little old.

Unless you like it that way.

And Chris did like it that way

… until the whispering started.

Telecommuting is a modern psychological horror story set in what could be your town, your street, your house. The lyrical slow burn is subtle; the terror in this tale sneaks up on you before you know it.

2 Reviews

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“3.5 stars rounded up for Goodreads I first encountered L. Marie Wood's writing in SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire anthology. Her story, THE DANCE was an erotic, girl meets girl story with a dark twist. I mentioned in my review that the sexual tension was off the charts. Several months later, I'm still able to "see" the visuals Wood conjured up in my mind; that's potent! TELECOMMUTING is a psychological slow burn. It's a story for right now. Chris lives in a big house all alone. It's isolating. To double down, he lands a job working from home. Most of the narrative is in a stream of consciousness style where Chris's inner thoughts are relayed to the reader in their natural state. This can be disorienting at times but for the most part, I thought it served the story well. Chris's brain is a whirlwind of emotions, intrusive thoughts, and anxiety. It's easy to relate and see yourself while reading what he's experiencing; especially after spending most of 2020 in global pandemic lockdown. Wood takes her protagonist, a seemingly normal guy going through a breakup with a live-in partner or a divorce (I can't remember), and plunges him down into a dark spiral of paranoia. It's quite an unsettling and uncomfortable reading experience. Chris has normal, everyday interactions with his neighbors but somehow, they always get weird and twisted out of context in his mind. It becomes increasingly difficult to discern if our narrator is reliable or actually losing his mind. "Note to self: Fuck going outside."”

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