Emmalyne

Ive forgotten which life is the dream and which is reality. Im a college girl, my innocence ripped away like a doll from a childs grasp. Im a marionette, alone in this purgatory of red on white, my escape, my asylum. My own little dream world of strange.

Emma Shepard is a violin prodigy on her way to achieving her ambitious dreams. Not only was she accepted to the prestigious Belmont Academy for the Performing Arts, but she is chosen as the violin soloist for the symphonys esteemed December concert. As far as Emma is concerned, her future is golden.

But when she catches the eye of a handsome pianist, her world shatters when what was meant to be an innocent night of studying turns into tragedy, taking Emmas agency and leaving her traumatized. Now shes experiencing vivid nightmares in which she is a living marionette named Emmalyne, forced to perform her violin solo for the amusement of a lustful king with the face of her abuser. In these dreams, her imaginary friends from childhood return, only now they are marred and much more terrifying than she remembers them.

As her dream world begins to blend with reality, Emma is afraid shell end up like her aunt Sophie, who sees things that arent there and talks to people who dont exist. Emma must push through the trauma she associates with her solo before the night of the concert—if her psychosis doesnt defeat her first.

Fans of "Chlorine" by Jade Song and "The Ensemble" by Aja Gabel, or the (2010) movie "Black Swan" will enjoy "Emmalyne."