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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

PRETTY GIRLS x BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x SHARP OBJECTS When Alex's sister goes missing, there is nobody in her small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save the little that's left of her family. #QuestPit #W #A #T #WF

An agent’s guide to "Dissonance"
An adult psychological thriller (Work In Progress) by Lilith Murphy

Comps Include:

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
- Protective sister dynamic
- Prior trauma/haunted by the past
- Paranoia

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- Domestic thriller
- Complicated family dynamics
- Family secrets dragged into the open

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
- Imperfect victims
- FMC who isn’t believed by men

An arrow connects the following bullet point to both Pretty Girls and Bright Young Women:
- Beauty and its influence on the treatment of women

The Pitch

Three years after the death of their parents, former psych student Alex Doyle’s life is turned upside down by the kidnapping of her younger sister Charlie. Unsure of who to trust, Alex must unravel the secrets of their small hometown to find her before it’s too late.

Tropes:

Unreliable narrator
Unhinged women
Small Town/Insulated community
Secrets dragged to the surface
Past haunts the present

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

#WIPSnip "Table" And this time, it's the correct version! Sorry about that 😅 Alex is printing missing posters for her sister, Charlie, when she thinks she sees something in the corner of her eye.

"Shifting the still-warm papers to her left arm, Alex registers movement in her peripheral vision. A shiver rolls like wind down her spine, an age-old instinct warning her to danger. She can’t hear a thing; the usually quiet ringing in her ears overpowers everything else in the silence of the library. But she’s certain that she saw a shadow move.

'Who’s there?!' She hisses, eyes darting rapidly around the stacks. Her vision was a messy blur of book titles and colors, but it was as if the shadow had vanished completely. Whatever she saw, it was gone now, leaving Alex only with the dread that clings to her lungs, making it hard to breathe.

Palms search for purchase at the edge of the wooden table, the rapid swiveling of her head having brought on a wave of vertigo that spins the room around. The ancient screws squeal under her weight, but do not give. The adrenaline, which had hit her so fast, recedes like a tide on the shore. It leaves in its wake a discomfort so overwhelming that, all at once, Alex scrambles to pull her papers back into her arms. Careful not to let them flutter away in her haste, she rushes out of the library, offering only one final goodbye over her shoulder."

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Happy Day 2 of #BluePitHype! I have mood boards for my main cast: Alex, Charlie, Clem, and Zack!

A collage:

Row one (left to right): A woman with white skin crying as mascara runs down her face; a girl in a blue dress holding a smaller girl in a white shirt and skirt; a woman with brown hair looking into a broken mirror.

Row two: Two hands, covered in blood; a black box with the words "If you hurt my sister I'll kill you with my bare hands" written in white text; a black-and-white photo of two women with their arms around each other and facing away from the camera.

Row three: A silhouette of a woman with a knife; two hands forming a pinky promise against a cloudy sky; a cropped photo of a woman, only showing her disheveled hair and blood on her face/body.

A collage:

Row one (left to right): A slightly blurry duck facing the camera; an girl in a blue dress leading a younger girl in a white shirt and skirt; a girl with white skin creating a triangle with glitter covered hands, showing her eye through the triangle.

Row two: A black screen with white text in a coding language; a computerized hand reaching through a screen to touch a real hand against a black background; an arcade with several machines lined up.

Row three: Two hands, palms facing upward, covered in star-shaped glitter; a hand drawing stars on the inside cuff of blue denim jeans; a black screen with green text that says "Access granted"

A collage:

Row one (right to left): A woman in a fancy robe and with her makeup one, holding a gun in her right hand; a silhouette of two women just about to kiss; a brunette woman with her pointer fingernail between her teeth.

Row two: A girl laying upside down on a chair, with her legs draped over the back of the chair with stacks of books surrounding her; a black-and-white text message conversation with a message that says, "That sounds illegal. I'm in."; a woman in a white dress holds an axe in the forest.

Row three: A woman in a wedding dress with disheveled hair holds a rifle and wears a cartridge belt across her torso; a dark image of a woman flexing her bicep with one arm and holding her muscle with the other; a woman in a blue skirt, white shirt, and knee-high books struggles to scale a green wooden fence.

A collage:

Row one (left to right): The silhouette of two people sitting on a railing; a snowy forest with a line of blood leading away from the camera; a fox sleeping happily next to a tree.

Row two: A brown eye staring into the camera; a white background with the words "You jump, I jump, Remember?" written in black text; two children, one girl and one boy, working in the kitchen with their backs to the camera.

Row three: A pair of cracked and bloody lips; two hands forming a pinky promise against a dark background; playing cards lined up (7 of hearts, 10 of clubs, Ace of hearts, and 3 of clubs) upside down to write "Love"

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

PRETTY GIRLS x BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x SHARP OBJECTS 🧠 Neurodivergent characters ❔ Small town where everyone knows everyone's business 🔫 Dangerous secrets that come to light ♥️ Sisterhood at the core of everything What would you do for your family? #WIPPIT #T #H #A #LGBTQ2S+ #OWN #FBW

A collage of dark images with an overall gray overtone. It conveys themes of gritty survival, love for a sister, paranoia, and poking through great secrets.

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x SHARP OBJECTS When Alex's sister goes missing, there is nobody in her small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save the little that's left of her family. #GhostPit #A #W #T #H #LGBTQ2S+ #OWN

An agent's guide to "Dissonance," an adult psychological thriller by Lilith Murphy

Comps

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Amazing sister dynamic
Paranoid protagonist/Unreliable narrator

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Domestic thriller
Complicated family dynamics
Family secrets dragged into the open

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

FMC (Female Main Character) who isn’t believed by men
Imperfect victims

The Pitch
Three years after the death of their parents, college dropout Alex Doyle must learn to take care of herself and her teenage sister Charlie. When Charlie disappears without a trace, Alex realizes she doesn’t know as much about her sister as she thought. Now, she must completely throw away everything she thought she knew-about her sister and their hometown-if she wants to find Charlie alive.

Tropes

Unreliable narrator
Paranoid protagonist
Stalker
Kidnapping
Betrayal & Revenge

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Butterfly pictures from the zoo today 😊 refilling my creative well! 🦋

A portrait photo of three white peacock butterflies laying on leaves. The green is almost camouflaged with the green.

A portrait photo of one zebra butterfly laying on small green flowers.

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

GONE GIRL x FEAR STREET x THE HUNGER GAMES When her sister goes missing, Alex learns there's nobody in their small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save what's left of her family. #QuestPit #W #A #T #H

Comps

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Amazing sister dynamic
Unreliable narrator
Paranoid protagonist

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Domestic thriller
Complicated family dynamics
Family secrets dragged into the open

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

FMC (Female Main Character) who isn’t believed by men
Imperfect victims

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x SHARP OBJECTS x THE HUNGER GAMES 🔪 Unhinged women 🩸 Family who will do ANYTHING for each other 😱 Unreliable narrator 👻 Neurodivergent & LGBTQ protagonist 🫣 Secrets, lies, and skeletons in the closet! #questpit #W #A #T #H

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This made me realize that even though memories are crucial to my WIP, I tend not to use the word 😂 but I hope you all enjoy this #WIPSnip !

Dr. Scott offers an encouraging tilt of her head as Alex picks a spot on the wall behind the other’s head to fix her gaze. 4, 5, 6. 4, 5, 6. Her chest wheezes as it expands and a lingering pain is left behind as it contracts. She does it once, twice, three times before her mouth parts to speak. It doesn’t take much time for Alex to slip back into the murky static; her imagination opening its maw.
“It’s humid and raining,” She begins, stumbling once more from the wreckage, “my leg hurts, too. I had to squeeze out of the car, and it scraped on something. I’m on the floor, I think.”
The scar on the back of her leg tingles.
“What do you hear?”
“I can hear the horn.” Alex turns to the driver’s seat, where her father’s head rests against the steering wheel. She’s reminded of the times he’d fall asleep on the couch while they watched movies.
“Just the horn?”
“No, there are people too. Someone’s on the phone, and a lady is trying to get my attention.”
The brown-haired stranger cradles Alex’s head into her lap. Her voice is too muffled to understand, so Alex distracts herself by focusing on the pretty shade of lipstick she wore. The glossy sheen reflected the light of the streetlamps, twinkling like stars.
“You’re doing a great job, Alex.”
“Wait—oh God—Charlie.”

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#WIPSnips Since today's word is "sister" I couldn't help myself but join in!

Distantly, voices yell out, trying to stop her. Alex doesn’t listen, instead recklessly propelling herself toward the heat. The blaze is taller than she is, but only toward the back of the car. Her eyes flit to the front seat.

Her mother’s neck has been broken, and her eyes stare wide and empty at her through the window. Grief lances through her, fingernails digging into the palms of her hands as she tears her eyes away. The backseat door is stuck, only slightly ajar to let Charlie’s screams out. If the firemen were here, they could pry it open or break the glass. She remembered seeing it on the news, a mother cradling her child as the burly men tore her door to pieces.

Now, there was no such jaw to pry her sister to safety. There was only her and the few seconds she had before she lost the only family she had left.

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

We can't all deal with our anxiety in a productive way. Sometimes we just have to break things. From my current WIP, Dissonance.

Leaning over the sink, she begins to pry pieces of glass from her fingers. They clatter against the surface, one by one, until all that remains are mangled knuckles. The concentration lets her mind drift away, to focus on only one thing. Her shuddered wheezes melt into even breaths, and the shaking of her shoulders falls away.

Before she can finish, an unfamiliar ringtone wrenches Alex from her tentative calm. The burner phone rumbles in her pocket. She does not care for the blood that smears her clothes as she fishes for it, answering the call and practically shouting into the receiver.

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

DISSONANCE - An adult psychological thriller. The complicated family dynamics of "Sharp Objects," the female rage of "Bright Young Women," and the protective sisterhood of "The Hunger Games." Unhinged (sapphic) women Neurodivergent MC Female rage #BluePit 📖 #A #H #W #LGBT #DIS #WF #ND #OV

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

DISSONANCE A psychological thriller for readers who like 🩸Protagonists who can't trust their own mind 🩸Family secrets that come back to haunt them 🩸Small town lies 🩸Psychological warfare Bonus excerpt attached! #BluePit 📖 #A #H #W #LGBT #DIS #WF #ND #OV

Excerpt
“Before we do the press conference, I need to go somewhere.”
“Where?”
“Montgomery.”
Zack’s head tilts downward, shadows casting over his eyes. “To talk to that teacher?” His tone probes at her, and even though it was a question, it feels much more like a threat. “You’re not investigating, are you? You know how dangerous that is, right?”
She expected nothing less from him. After all these years, he was still their protector. Alex leans close to him, palms resting flat over her thighs and holding on desperately. “Please,” it strains her to hold eye contact, skin tingling, but she persists in boring her gaze into Zack’s. She begs, she challenges. Do not fuck with me. Please give me mercy. “Just take me?”
His stare holds just as firm. Where Alex is a scrappy, determined thing, Zack has looked into the maw of something darker. His irises are inky and he uses it to barb through her. She blinks first.

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

SHARP OBJECTS x BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x THE HUNGER GAMES When her sister goes missing, Alex learns there's nobody in their small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save what's left of her family. #BluePit 📖 #A #H #W #OV #LGBT #DIS #WF #ND

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

GONE GIRL x THE HUNGER GAMES Two years after the death of their parents, sisters Alex and Charlie only have each other to rely on. But when Charlie suddenly goes missing, Alex must push past her trauma to save her before it's too late. Psychological Thriller, suspense, cerebral #questpit

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