The Weight of Them

Marcus Rake has spent his entire life mastering the art of emotional manipulation. To him, lonely women are opportunities, vulnerability is leverage, and intimacy is simply another game to win. Behind the luxury apartment, expensive clothes, and smooth confidence lies a man who leaves broken people behind without ever looking back. Then the bumps appear. What Marcus first dismisses as a skin condition quickly transforms into something far more horrifying after a visit to a mysterious clinic.
Growing beneath his flesh are hundreds of living eyes - each one tied to a woman he emotionally destroyed and abandoned. The condition has a name. Sluos tsol. Lost souls. As the disease spreads across his body, Marcus is forced into a waking nightmare where the voices of his victims begin speaking through his skin. Haunted by guilt, pursued by a doctor obsessed with exploiting his condition, and confronted by Ashley - a woman whose life he nearly ruined years earlier - Marcus must finally face the emotional wreckage he's left behind before the weight of it all consumes him completely.
Dark, atmospheric, and psychologically brutal, The Weight of Them blends supernatural horror, body horror, and emotional reckoning into a haunting exploration of manipulation, guilt, trauma, and the scars people leave on one another.