[2937] Blue Whale - Chapter 1 - V2

Trigger warnings - mentions of SA and kidnapping but no in depth details in the chapter.

This is a redrafted chapter 1 of a psychological thriller I've been working on. The premise is that the main character - Annora - finds herself obsessed with a social media 'game' that targets teenagers, getting them to do a task a day with the final task being suicide. Annora wants to learn the grooming methods of the moderator so that she can give her students insight into manipulative behaviour, and along the way she looses herself to the game.

This is a little more of a slow burn into her obsession with it, and how the game changes her mentality, than instantaneous psychological thrilling. While there's something to be said about having hooks in the first page/first chapter, I'm trying out a slower approach to see how it works. But anyhoo, here is the link to chapter one.

Crit 1- [4432] , Crit 2 - [3105] --> totals 7747 words

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