"DEAD FRIENDS FOREVER"

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The bayou remembers. It holds on to every body it’s swallowed, every sin it’s hidden, every secret whispered into its black water. Lily swore she’d never return—not after Amelia vanished, and the mournful angel statue was set in the garden so that Amelia would never be forgotten. But when her brother’s body is found in the swamp, Lily feels the old current pulling her back. The house is just as she left it: sagging under the weight of silence, steeped in the smell of damp earth. And Aunt Clara is still tucking away letters, photographs, and trinkets in drawers and boxes, as if hiding the past will keep it from finding them. It starts with small things. A heart-shaped locket engraved MINE, appearing where it doesn’t belong. Polaroids whose flash cuts through more than darkness. Then Lily sees her—Amelia, smiling the way she used to—except the girl in front of her is not the cousin she lost. Every night, Amelia’s angel moves. One day it’s in the garden where it has stood for twenty years, the next in the cemetery, then ankle-deep in the swamp. Lily can’t tell if it’s coming for her, or if she’s already caught inside its gaze. And in the bayou, the dead don’t rest. They wait for you to remember them—and to finish what you started. Dead Friends Forever is a slow-burn Southern Gothic horror about the weight of memory, the pull of guilt, and the dangerous comfort of letting the dead back in.