Story By maryamisababa
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maryamisababa

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My name is Maryam. My favourite genres are thriller and suspense. I have an obsession with retro vibes, especially the 80's. The music, the hairstyles.... everything, and no, I wasn't born in the 80's or 90's lol. Oh, and I'm an introvert. That's pretty much all about me.
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The Degrees of Obsession
Updated at Sep 4, 2026, 11:22
Marilyn is exactly seven days away from freedom. After years of relentless hard work, her final university exams are within reach, and a bright future is waiting just across the graduation stage. With her fiercely loyal best friend, koko by her side, Marilyn is focused entirely on crossing the finish line. But someone else has been studying her. Beneath the familiar routine of campus life, a dark, meticulous fixation has been growing in the shadows. Someone has tracked her habits, mapped her schedule, and waited for the perfect moment to strike. To them, Marilyn isn't just a passing interest, she is an all consuming love and an unstoppable obsession. One week before her finals officially starts, she vanishes without a trace. Plunged into a hidden nightmare where compliance is her only weapon, she must play a dangerous psychological game with a captor who is deeply in love with her and willing to do anything to keep her. Out in the world, the authorities assume the stress of finals drove her to run away. While her devastated parents face agonizing dead ends with the police, only Koko refuses to believe she would just snap and walk away from her future. Marilyn on the other hand must find a way to outsmart a master manipulator before she is erased forever.
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