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Sun Kissed Innsmouth
Part Forty Seven
"The bonfire that night, had near the left side of the porch so she could enjoy the warmth and the view from a rocking chair, warmed Felecia’s body but it didn’t close the open wound in her mind. Forced laughter and sips of whiskey laced chicory didn’t hide the sickening outrage she felt. They knew. All of them. Nothing...
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rubymoon:
Love your writing!

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Sun Kissed Innsmouth
Part Forty Six
After being banished, even after being left for dead. After having her life altered and ruined, even nearly ended. After all the hostilities and horrors and even with the new understanding that she was being offered up to Phillip, his youth, or any man who might sniff close enough to rut her against her will, there was still the...
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rubymoon:
Love the way you write!
emptymouthpiece:
Thank you @rubymoon. This is my life's passion I just wish I could get my work to sell.

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Sun Kissed Innsmouth
Part Forty Five
The trunk lid was heavy and Felecia didn’t have the strength to shut it. She didn’t have the strength to stand up either. She stooped there over the ruined letters and stained clothes, breathing in the moldy memories, staring without seeing and crying without tears. She stooped until her knees gave out and found cold comfort in the clumps...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth
Part Forty four
Nana’s and the villager’s largess showed up later that week. A small procession of sullen faces marched up the lane to Phillip’s house carrying or pulling along the atonement bounty. Six chickens and not a rooster in the mix. Two male goats well past their use as anything but stew meat. A tiny stack of silver dollars, just enough...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth
Part Forty Three
The villagers nearly killed her, tried to hang Phillip, now they planned to starve them out slow. There wasn’t enough game left in the woods to keep even the three of them alive much less provide the big house with even more food all year around. Even if Phillip didn’t see that, Felecia understood then that the best way...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth
Part Forty Two
The bored man was the only calm member of the party left to arrive at the porch that day. He raised his hands and fanned them out in front of him. He got an easy smile settled on his face before he spoke. “It’s just like the man said, we came in peace. We’re here to make sure no...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth
Part Forty One
It was morning and Felecia woke late, again. She was improving every day but by no means back to her old self. Phillip was out in the forest behind the house, foraging and hunting squirrels and rabbits in the crisp of early spring. His boy was out tending to the small garden and what chickens they had cooped. Felecia...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth
Part Forty
“The rifle, where did it come from? My father said all the estate guns were locked away.”
Felecia had looked at Phillip for the answer but his boy spoke up from the kitchen doorway. “Pa bought it. Your gran gave him the lot to sell and he bought it back.”
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth
Part Thirty Nine
A good deal of Felecia’s sleepless nights surrounded vague nightmare versions of that all too real, final conversation with her mother. The sickness lasted nearly another week after that meeting. The medicine helped and the herb bread was shared around at Felecia’s insistence. Emma was the only real cook in Rotary house, it was one of her loafs to...
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