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   familiar but foreign, a liminal feeling by Notevenaproperword

   Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • F/F, F/M, Multi
   • Complete Work

   28 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Madeline Ashton/Helen Sharp
   • Ernest Menville/Helen Sharp
   • Helen Sharp (Death Becomes Her)
   • Madeline Ashton
   • Ernest Menville
   • Character Death
   • Inspired by only murders in the building but not really
   • Madeline is a terrible neighbour
   • Broadway broad Mad
   • Writer Hel
   • Ernest doesn't have the power to match his wife's freak
   • Helen loves her cat to death
   • Childhood Bestfriends to Enemies to Something(tm)
   • Author is terrible at tagging
   • Author should chill
   • Author doesn't know how
   • Violisle in the background
   • Please walk with me
   • Alternate Universe
   • Voyeurism
   • Self-Harm
   • Past Suicide Attempts
   • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Angst
   • Compulsory Heterosexuality
   • Emotional Infidelity
   • eventual cheating
   • toxic yuri forever

   Summary

   She had whispered his name. Yes, she must have had. At least once, before the world dissolved in a pair of frightened blue eyes. Or perhaps she had screamed. Not his name, but she can recall an inhuman shriek near her and the burn of her throat, scorched earth but in skin.
   Helen isn’t dead and she has woken to silence.

   OR

   Seemingly boring Helen Menville leads a quiet life. Her days revolve around her husband, her cat, and the Broadway diva she’s sworn to get kicked out living across the courtyard. Her plan to ruin Madeline Ashton goes off-script, or does it?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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   Chapters:

   9/9

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   176

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   18 Jun 2026