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Anybody Home? by Michael J. Seidlinger
3.0

Anybody Home? offers a fresh take on the home invasion trope: viewing the crime through the lens of the invader(s). There’s a lot to plan, a lot you have to pray goes correctly—home invasion is no walk in the park. You are one of them, the intruders: watching, studying, invading. You are complicit in the crime. While the victim’s names are never revealed, you KNOW them, what they’re all like. The brutality you inflict is slow, planned, sadistic. Turning family members on one another by revealing secrets, inflicting pain, true pain. You’re doing great, the cults are gonna love it. Remember to ensure the performance is top notch. Entertainment is the goal. Protect the performance, get the footage, vanish without a trace.

Anybody Home? is told from a second person point of view, making YOU, the reader, part of the story [