Vengeance — Chris Ulm

Kim has always had a split personality: quiet and kind at front but brooding and hateful within. This darkness inside remains cleverly masked by her social performance, buried deep behind her everyday middle-school facade. A unique tortured malice has piled up in Kim over the years, fed every day by her negligent father and a relentless bully with unknown motives. In her experience, things are always getting worse-that is, until a quiet and mysterious girl transfers to the school. Kim's sensible effort of kindness sparks something between the two they each lacked: friendship. However, despite the positive changes, her home life has not improved. Fighting with her alcoholic father brings her down to a dark and dangerous place. Her sanity is tested, and the clingy shadows begin taking hold of her mind. What she finds in the depths is something she could hardly believe: a powerful demon, offering an escape from torment and the ability to fight back. But this power demands a price: a role she must now play, a role that will threaten everything she cares about. Vengeance is at hand. Is this power worth losing her humanity?