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A man, a woman, and a road trip through the sun-blasted highways of West Texas that descends into chaos, blood, and screams. Bleak, cinematic, and unrelenting, Scratch is a fever dream of American horror. A collision of Nick Cutter’s raw realism, Edward Lee’s extremity, and Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic poetry, Scratch delivers a quick, brutal, and bloody fix that lingers long after the final tick.

A man recounts and explains how he became obsessed in studying scratches on walls, so much so that he became an expert at identifying the very people who did the scratches.

After spending years of consistently playing the same lottery number, fate has managed to play a cruel joke on Uri by giving him a foreign set of numbers without his knowledge. When it turns out that his lifelong lottery numbers finally hit the jackpot, Uri is left furious as he gazes upon a lottery ticket with unfamiliar digits. Now, on a quest to confront the cashier who handed him the losing ticket, Uri is determined to take action, and his decisions take him on an unfavorable path down Solemn Lane.