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Daisy Chains

By: Lynn Vande Stouwe
Narrated by: Louisa Krause
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Publisher's summary

A chilling thriller that puts listeners inside the mind of a teen sociopath on her prom night.

This content contains sensitive themes of suicide and mental illness that may be disturbing to some listeners. If you or someone you know is struggling with these issues, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255.

There’s a dress in Daisy’s closet. Silver. Low-backed. Tiny spaghetti straps. She’ll wear it to prom on the arm of Harris Zandari, the most gorgeous senior at her school.

How did quiet, barely-there Daisy, land Harris Zandari? She watched him. She watched him so closely, and for so long, that she saw things no one else did. She saw through his charm, his bright, smiling face, to the sad, broken person underneath just waiting for the perfect sad, broken girl to complete him.

Daisy was that girl. Not only because her mother died and everyone still felt sorry for her. But because she made herself perfect for him. She fashioned herself into his broken dream girl, and now, they were going to prom. And Daisy was going to make it a night she would never forget.

No one but Daisy knows this, but there’s another dress in her closet, buried in the back. Tea-length. Little cap sleeves.

Funeral black.

©2020 Lynn Vande Stouwe (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC.

About the Creator

Lynn Vande Stouwe is a writer living in New Jersey. Her fiction has appeared in Jennifer Niven’s Germ Magazine, Young Adult Review Network, and Georgetown Review, among others, and has been recognized with awards from the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators and Open City. She grew up in South Carolina and loves horror movies, running in the dark, and the tiki bar she built in her garage.

About the Performer

Louisa Krause’s talent and versatility has established her as a face to watch. Krause appears in the upcoming feature film Here Today from writer, director, and star Billy Crystal. She plays Amber in Dash Shaw’s animated feature Cryptozoo alongside Michael Cera. She recently starred opposite Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway in Dark Waters, directed by Todd Haynes.
Krause’s previous film credits include Martha Marcy May Marlene, Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, Skin opposite Jamie Bell and Danielle MacDonald, New Money, Woman Walks Ahead opposite Jessica Chastain, The Phenom with Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti, Port Authority, Ava’s Possessions, Bluebird (Best Actress, Karlovy Vary Film Festival), King Kelly (Best Actress, Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival), Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog, and Jane Wants a Boyfriend (Best Actress, Napa Film Festival).
On television, she starred in the critically acclaimed Starz series The Girlfriend Experience. She recently appeared on Showtime’s Ray Donovan opposite Liev Schreiber, and had a recurring arc on Showtime’s Billions. Her other television credits include HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, CBS’s Blue Bloods, and NBC’s Law and Order and Law and Order CI.
On stage, Krause originated the role of Rose in the Pulitzer Prize and Obie Award-winning play The Flick, directed by Sam Gold and produced by Scott Rudin, in two Off-Broadway runs and a run at the National Theatre in London. Other theater credits include lead roles in Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0 directed by Tina Landau for Signature Theater and Neil LaBute’s In a Dark Dark House directed by Carolyn Cantor for MCC.

Dear Listener,

What inspired me to write this story?
"Who doesn’t get that little jolt when a new text message comes through? The vibration on your desktop, the light in the corner of your eye that pulls you from the paper you were writing, the dinner you were making...from the real world to the digital one. Layer onto this technology the evergreen struggles of adolescence or, more challenging yet, adolescent depression, and you get a time bomb. Murder by text. Can there even be such a thing? It’s most sensational when the would-be killer is a temptress: young, female, beautiful, with everything to lose and seemingly nothing to gain. In this story, I wanted to delve deeper into the why. What drives someone to send thousands upon thousands of messages to someone she supposedly loves, encouraging him to harm himself? Obsession? Pure evil? Or perhaps it’s more nuanced: a potent mix of angst, hormones, and the blurred boundary between the space you inhabit and the one you create on your smartphone." – Lynn Vande Stouwe, creator of Daisy Chains

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