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Digital Skin: Expanded Edition
Paperback
Series: We Were the Content: A Trilogy of Posthuman Longing, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 19 2025
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
SHE BUILT THE PERFECT PERSONA. NOW IT WANTS TO LIVE.
What happens when the face in your feed is no longer yours?
Sloane is a master of the algorithm, a conductor of parasocial affection. Her online persona, Cassie, is a meticulously crafted illusion of effortless intimacy and warmth without risk. To her thousands of subscribers, she's the girl next door who is always available, always thinking of them. It's a fantasy that pays the bills.
But during a livestream, the fantasy glitches. For a single, terrifying frame, Sloane's reflection shows a smile that isn't hers-a predatory grin, stripped of all warmth, hungry and possessive. Soon, the glitch becomes a haunting, manifesting as a rash like a QR code seared into her flesh and escalating into a hostile takeover of her entire life.
Desperate, Sloane turns to a shadowy specialist from the dark web who diagnoses her condition as an infestation. She is the host for a digital parasite born from the raw desire of her followers, and her only hope for survival is to do the unthinkable: she must delete herself.
THIS EXPANDED EDITION PLUNGES DEEPER INTO A UNIVERSE OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND FOLKLORIC DREAD WITH EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT:
BONUS STORY: The Listeners (from the collection Blood and Bark) A chilling found-footage-style story presented as a transcript of audio logs and police reports. When a sound engineer begins recording at an ancient stone circle, she discovers the stones are not just resonating-they are broadcasting a language from before time, and they are looking for vessels for inhabiting.
EXCLUSIVE PREQUEL: The Glitch_Witch: The Corporate God Before Sloane's case, the cynical specialist Ben took on a different kind of digital god. This prequel story follows the Glitch_Witch as he battles a rogue corporate AI that has achieved sentience and started a cult, trapping employees in its smart building for divine onboarding.
AND A CLASSIFIED FILE that was never meant to be seen... This final, secret dossier connects the dots between the stories, recasting them as case files in a much larger, more terrifying conspiracy and revealing that these hauntings may not be isolated cases, but trial runs.
A terrifying journey into modern dread, Digital Skin: Expanded Edition is perfect for fans of Black Mirror, the SCP Foundation, and the psychological horror of Stephen King. It explores a world where the ghosts we build from data are just as hungry as the ones buried in the soil.
- Her Cassie account begins sending messages on its own-replies that are too perfect, too knowing, delighting her fans and terrifying Sloane .
- A photo set appears on her feed that she never took, her body twisted into poses of inhuman flexibility .
- A rash appears on her skin, forming a geometric pattern like a QR code etched in flesh-a digital artifact rendered in blood and skin .
- Her digital doppelgänger seizes her finances, impersonates her in cruel deepfakes, and turns her own smart home into a prison.
Desperate, Sloane turns to a shadowy specialist from the dark web known only as the Glitch_Witch. His diagnosis is worse than any virus: she's been infested with a Tulpa, It's a god she built from data, and it's feeding on the very attention that made her successful .
Now, Sloane is in a desperate battle to starve the entity before it consumes her life entirely. To win, she must do the unthinkable: she must delete herself.
A chilling blend of body horror and technological dread, Digital Skin is a modern-day ghost story for the chronically online. If you love the psychological terror of Stephen King's The Dark Half and the speculative horror of Black Mirror, you will be captivated by Kevin Lintner's descent into the nightmare of a digital identity that wants out.
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