The Bone Cutters

Dory wakes up in the padded room of a psychiatric hospital with no recollection of how she wound up there. She soon finds out she's been Blue-Papered--involuntarily committed. She gets sent to the wrong counseling group and discovers a whole new world of psychiatric patients she'd never known existed. At first she just thinks they're cutters, all marked by similar scars, but then she finds out that those scars are from carving into their bodies where they chisel and scrape their bones. They harvest bone dust. This dust is highly coveted and sought after, as well as highly addictive. When they realize she's never been "dusted", Dory becomes their target. After all, dust from a "freshie" is much more valuable than theirs. Frightened for her life, she desperately tries to prove to the psych. hospital staff that she's not delusional about these particular patients wanting to slice her open and scrape her bones. The staff doesn't believe her. They all think she's crazy. Dory ends up on the run, fighting for her life, trying to avoid getting "dusted" by The Bone Cutters. Like Girl, Interrupted and "The Yellow Wallpaper", The Bone Cutters is one woman's dark and surreal experience with a madness that is not necessarily her own.

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Dory wakes up in the padded room of a psychiatric hospital with no recollection of how she wound up there. She soon finds out she's been Blue-Papered--involuntarily committed. She gets sent to the wrong counseling group and discovers a whole new world of psychiatric patients she'd never known existed. At first she just thinks they're cutters, all marked by similar scars, but then she finds out that those scars are from carving into their bodies where they chisel and scrape their bones. They harvest bone dust, and this dust is highly coveted and sought after, as well as highly addictive. When they realize she's never been "dusted", Dory becomes their target. After all, dust from a "freshie" is much more valuable than theirs. Frightened for her life, she desperately tries to prove to the psych. hospital staff that she's not delusional about these particular patients wanting to slice her open and scrape her bones. The staff doesn't believe her. They all think she's crazy. Dory ends up on the run, fighting for her life, trying to avoid getting "dusted" by The Bone Cutters. Like Girl, Interrupted and "The Yellow Wallpaper", The Bone Cutters is one woman's dark and surreal experience with a madness that is not necessarily her own.

About the Author

Renee S.DeCamillis is a horror fiction writer, an Editorial Intern for Crystal LakePublishing, a writer for Phi3 Comics,a member of the Horror Writers Association, a lyricist and poet, a life-longmusician, & a tree-hugging hippie with a sharp metal edge.     Renee's debut book, The Bone Cutters came out on September1, 2019 through Eraserhead Press. Her short fiction has been published in Deadman's Tome: The Conspiracy Issue, Sirens Call eZine Issue 37 The Sixth AnnualWomen In Horror Month Edition, on TheOther Stories Podcast. She has a short story forthcoming in the all-women horror anthology Wicked Women.Herpoetry appears in the Horror WritersAssociation's Poetry Showcase Vol. IV. Her horror movie reviews have beenpublished on AllHorror.net and Horror-Movie-Reviews.com, as well as on herwebsites reneesdecamillis.com and phantom1333.wixsite.com/renee-young-decamillis/horror-movie-reviews.      Renee earned her MFA in CreativeWriting from the Stonecoast Graduate Program, she has her BA in psychology, andshe attended Berklee College of Music as a music business major with guitar asher principle instrument. Renee is also a former model, school rock bandteacher, creative writing teacher, private guitar instructor, A&R rep foran indie record label, therapeutic mentor, psychological technician, and pre-schoolteacher. (Yes, she loves to wear many hats; she is known to have worn thirteenhats all at once--literally.)      Renee is also a formergravedigger; she can get rid of a body fast without leaving a trace, and she isnot afraid of getting her hands dirty. Renee lives in the woods of southernMaine with her husband, their son, and a house full of ghosts.     Visit her online at reneesdecamillis.com

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