They are Watching - Owen J Benjamin

Sammy used to be just like everyone else-ordinary, happy, and surrounded by the comfort of family dinners and familiar routines. But when life hit harder than she could handle, everything began to change. The voices in her head grew louder, drowning out reality, and the warmth of home slowly faded into silence and distance.

After being diagnosed with schizophrenia, Sammy starts treatment and briefly feels like herself again. Believing she no longer needs help, she stops taking her medication-only to find herself slipping into a dark world of deception, paranoia, and delusion. What begins as small doubts turns into a terrifying unraveling of everything she thought she knew.

As her mind becomes a battlefield, Sammy must fight to separate truth from illusion before she loses herself completely. With her relationships crumbling and her reality distorted, she faces the hardest challenge of all: saving herself.

A raw and emotional journey through mental illness, isolation, and survival, this story explores how fragile the mind can be-and how strong the human spirit must become to endure.