Written for Reedsy Prompt #348, “What Makes Us Human?”, this psychological short story was my exercise in exploring fear, dread, and emotional tension through transcript alone.
When I first saw the prompt, I was immediately drawn to the idea of a character questioning his own humanity. While the psychology behind that question interested me, I wanted to challenge myself in the way I might tell it. I did not want to rely on the usual tools of scene-building. I wanted to strip everything...
Why the protagonist of a psychological thriller can be more unsettling than the killer — and what it means when the hero understands violence from the inside.
It's an instinct. We want to locate the evil — find the person it lives inside, map its edges, understand what we're dealing with. Horror gives us a monster to point at. Crime fiction gives us a perpetrator. Even literary fiction tends to give us someone whose...
This short story was written for Reedsy Prompt #343: Tension, Twists, and Turns with WOW! — a prompt to set a story over the course of just a few seconds or minutes.
Meet Sandrine B., author of dark psychological thrillers and sensual fiction. Discover what drives her writing, the worlds she builds, and where to start reading.
Hello, I'm Sandrine B.
A year ago, I started writing.
Not “one day I’ll write” writing. Not “I have an idea” writing. I mean the real kind. The kind where you sit down even when the page feels intimidating, even when you don’t know if anyone will ever read it… But you write anyway.
That decision changed everything.
So, hello. I’m ...