SIKE

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Psych nursing can be a swanky job-until it isn't.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dominic Crowe likes his work at the hospital. Taking vitals collecting razors pretending the lights aren't too bright. But when his body starts to stutter-headaches hallucinations sleepless nights-it's clear something deeper is unraveling. The patients aren't the only ones losing touch.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Dominic slips from well-meaning professional to self-medicating wreck the hospital around him transforms into a surreal jazz-haunted nightmare. Palm trees sway outside the barred windows poppies bloom against stucco and somewhere between the linen and the blood he starts to see what's really sick.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A fever dream of burnout obsession and decay-and inspired by the real Camarillo State Hospital before it closed-</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sike</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a confession told from the inside of a nervous breakdown. Skin-crawling darkly funny and psychologically honest it's transgressive horror for anyone who's ever wondered how far the mind can go before it breaks.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis will find themselves right at home.</span></p><p></p>