This is a standalone story, #2 out of 4 standalone short stories in the READ-ONLY Collection.

Prison psychologist Wendy knows exactly how to lure her favorite former inmate back to her. She also knows she shouldn’t.

Rory, meanwhile, has built a fragile life of isolation to keep himself out of trouble. Then a strange album on a file-sharing program delivers the voice of the woman he has never forgotten.

She knows him better than anyone else. Rory is violent, obsessive, and impossible to control outside a locked room. He’s her favorite pawn to play with, but Rory refuses to remain another piece in her twisted game.

She wants him contained. He wants her stripped of her professional persona. Neither will compromise.

Deadwire Confessional is a fast, explicit 2000s-era psychological dark romance about mutual obsession, institutional corruption, and the power struggle between a psychologist and a dangerous former inmate who knows her far too well.