The Justiceers

the complete first pass of my forthcoming novel

The Justiceers

by Daphne Garrido

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Content Warning: Sexual Assault, Brutal Violence, Psychological Horror.

Extraordinarily sad.

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Short Story

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Note from Daphne: This is the first book I wrote. My language still needs work but I’m really proud of it regardless. My process includes adding music to these which might serve as a kind of soundtrack within each chapter, along with tacking music on the end. It helps me with the serialized way I write.

It’s just my thing.

Please know you have my sincerest encouragement to simply ignore me if you’re just here to simply read. It’s funny to content warning sadness but you’ll understand. I wrote my way out of a mental breakdown after cracking myself open psychically after stowing a lifetime of unhealed trauma in body.

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Part Two is maybe the darkest shit ever. Evil. Just beware.

This is when I learned to trust my heart and lead with confidence from there, because I didn’t plan any of this story ahead of time except for knowing the characters from the short story. I just found it chapter by chapter and never looked back. The seeds of foreshadowing seen in retrospect are nuts. This story coming back together in the end was me finding my faith, because I didn’t have a clue what was happening in my head.

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If anybody is getting into it and wants a manuscript copy, I have those. Chrysalis is where I lost my mind with Miriam. This is a book about being amidst a spiritual psychosis which is also an awakening and an unmasking at the same time. I rode the whole thing with Miriam in lockstep psychologically which is a very scary thing to admit. Psychosis might be a bold word to describe the truth—that’s just what people call it—delusion is more like it. I lost myself in the metaphor. That’s why I think it’s special though. The end truly healed me in great leaps and bounds, and the journey there was hardcore and reflected in the characters own.

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Part One: Darkest Nights

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.6

1.7

1.8

1.9

1.10

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Part Two: Wave of Mutilation

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.6

2.7

2.8

2.9

2.10

2.11

2.12

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Part Three: The Will to Choose

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.6

3.7

3.8

3.9

3.10

3.11

3.12

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Part Four: Prefinished Business

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.6

4.7

4.8

4.9

4.10

4.11

4.12

4.13

4.14

4.15

4.16

4.17

4.18

4.19

4.20

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Part Six: Death Rides a Horse

6.1

6.2

6.3

6.4

6.5

6.6

6.7

6.8

6.9

6.10

6.11

6.12

6.13

6.14

6.15

6.16

6.17

6.18

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Postscript from Daphne on endings - Going Out With a Bang

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Playlists

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