He found her in the living room. She was standing in the middle of the room, but she wasn't touching the floor. Her bare feet hovered an inch above the rug. The dress had grown. The hem, which had been knee-length, now pooled on the floor, spreading out in a dark, viscous circle. It wasn't fabric anymore; it was water, defying gravity, lapping at her ankles.
It was the summer the ocean decided to keep her. Blue My Mind
And on a certain beach, an old man would leave a glass of water at the water’s edge, just in case. He found her in the living room
First, she stopped wearing the dress. She refused to take it off. She slept in it, ate in it. The fabric never wrinkled, never stained. It seemed to absorb the world around it. The dress had grown
To have your mind "blued" is to be reset by the color of trust, logic, and communication.
The story follows 15-year-old Mia, whose body begins to change in horrifying, non-human ways as she tries to fit in at a new school. A blend of Coming-of-Age , Fantasy , and Body Horror .