Into The Dark: A Dystopian Horror Novella (Spoils of War Book 1)

In a future owned by corporations, war is society’s largest industry, and soldiers are its consumable workforce.

Bodies go in, get stitched or repurposed, and the system keeps running on whatever remains.

Everett is one of its products.
He came back from the front mutilated, rebuilt, and forced to fight again. But in a world that eats itself to keep consuming, the war shapes even the ones who stay behind. One of them is Hazel, tied to Everett by loss and old promises.

He lives in the dark, she’s scared of it, but when the night comes, something starts calling their names

At the end of history, the haunting doesn’t wait for the dead.
It devours the living

In a future owned by corporations, war is society’s largest industry, and soldiers are its consumable workforce.

Bodies go in, get stitched or repurposed, and the system keeps running on whatever remains

Everett is one of its products.

He came back from the front mutilated, rebuilt, and forced to fight again. But in a world that devours itself to keep consuming, the war shapes even the ones who stay behind. One of them is Hazel, tied to Everett by loss and old promises.

He lives in the dark, she’s scared of it, but when the night comes, something starts calling their names

At the end of history, the haunting doesn’t wait for the dead.

It devours the living

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Into the Dark is Book 1 in the Spoils of War series.

This story dives into grief, cannibalistic capitalism, and the brutal economy of trauma. The world is violent. The language is gritty. The emotional terrain is jagged.
Several elements may be triggering.

Reader discretion is strongly advised.