Distortions: 1994

By DALIA VALLOMBRA

Ashford, Connecticut. October 1994.

In a quiet New England town where the biggest scandals involve diner gossip and high school football, something impossible begins to happen. A videotape appears at the Black Pines Motel with no sender, no label, and three words carved into the plastic: WATCH ONLY ONCE.
When Noah, the motel's night clerk, presses play, the images on the screen seem wrong, but what's worse is what happens afterward. Small details shift. A clock shows the wrong time. A name sounds unfamiliar. A place that should exist no longer does. Or perhaps it never did.
Sammy, Mitch, and Derek have lived their whole lives in Ashford. They know its Victorian houses, its arcade basement, its coffee-stained diner counters. But as autumn deepens and the air turns metallic with rain and fallen leaves, they begin to sense something beneath the surface of their town: something watching, something recording, something rewriting.
At the center of it all lies Whitlow's Bend: a name scratched off old maps, tied to a long-vanished filmmaker and a story no one remembers clearly anymore.

Distorsions: 1994 is a slow-burn psychological horror novel steeped in 90s nostalgia: VHS tapes, Walkmans, arcades, late-night radio, and the fragile certainty of youth.

Perfect for readers who love small-town mysteries in the vein of Twin Peaks, the eerie coming-of-age tension of Stranger Things, and the layered reality shifts of Dark.

A story about memory, identity, and the terrifying possibility that reality is not fixed...only replayed.

Because sometimes the scariest thing isn't what you see on the screen.
It's what changes after you turn it off.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GR936NDG
• ISBN13: 9798250565479
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"