Horror: Adolescent/Puberty Body-Horror

Echoed Growth: Her body echoes with changes that multiply beyond control.

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

When 18-year-old Natalie Brooks' puberty causes her body to echo and duplicate limbs in moments of stress, she must conceal her multiplying form from camp bullies during a wilderness retreat or risk an unstoppable, identity-shattering overgrowth.

✨ Genre: Adolescent / Puberty Body Horror

✨ Tropes/Themes: Puberty Trigger, Secrecy & Embarrassment, Uncontrollable Physical Manifestations, Social Rejection / Bullying, Identity Fracture, Acceptance or Monstrous Empowerment, Multiplicative Horror, Echoed Traumas

✨ POV & Structure: 1st Person, Past Tense, Single POV with a 4-Act narrative structure.

✨ Vibe: Overwhelming and multiplicative in dread, with body horror that spirals into chaos and psychological depth. Edgy angst pairs with open-door explicit scenes that amplify the terror of unchecked growth, resulting in a vibe of fractured multiplicity and defiant unity.

✨ Book Size: Short Novel (40,000-60,000 words)

✨ Chapter Count: 27 Chapters

✨ Word Count: target 1800-2500 per chapter

✨ Heat Level: Open-door (3-5 explicit intimate scenes)

What you get:

✅ Complete Premise with core concepts and Narrative Physics Architecture

✅ Complete Story Dossier — including detailed characters, relationship arcs, locations and objects, world rules and histories, multiple subplots, and market researched genre and style guides.

✅ A detailed 27 chapter outline.