Michael Stratigakis

Harris and Penny, a cab driver and his fare, engage in flirtatious banter during their brief ride on a desolate road…until Penny abruptly vanishes from the back seat, leaving Harris mystified.

A female doctor is shot by police who think she pulled a gun on them. A reporter looks into the case and discovers links to the deaths of several black children.

Twenty years after watching cartel gunmen massacre her adoptive parents, Lydia Quinn drifts between a sedated hospital bed and the couch of her psychiatrist, Dr. Lilith Bailey, reliving nightmares that feel more real every time. She is also sole heir to an $18 million trust, which makes her the perfect mark for Mitch, a hospital janitor who recruits a crew of small-time crooks to kidnap her and hold her for ransom. The job should take three days. Instead, the crew starts coming apart, each man confronted by the thing he fears most, and each certain it's real. Something is running this game. And it has all the time in the world.

After an encounter with a black widow in her sleep, a virgin woman becomes impregnated. After the mysterious spawn is brought to this world, a cult begins to form around her home and she begins to suspect the child is a demonic entity.