Darkish

What if you were a touch telepath? What if every time you made physical contact, bare skin to bare skin, with anybody else, be it a handshake or a brush of an arm, you immediately drowned under a crashing wave of all of their feelings, thoughts, and emotions? What if those intrusive thoughts, those momentary ideas that split into our mind how bad we think a beloved person looks that day how we wish maybe we didn't have our child in that brief moment when they’ve been annoying

I blame BookTok for this. I spend far too much time around Halloween watching Universal Studios Death Eater rizz videos in slow-mo, scored to Sleep Token songs. I thought of the conceit of what if one of them actually grew interested in a regular season passholder, and what it would look like to develop a relationship with somebody who did not speak or reveal their face? And what would happen when you eventually did have that reveal? I have to admit, Love is Blind is a guilty