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Sun Kissed Innsmouth

Part Eighty Five

It was late summer once again and the season turned into another hot and wet affair. Felecia was fourteen and noting a year since she first arrived in the swamp and stayed with Jacqueline. Another trip out to the meadow was being planned and Felecia contemplated a whole different way of broaching the same tired subject that she had...
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These worthless Christian terrorists are keeping me from my work. Fear for the women of this country and my anger at the rising fundamentalist Christian theocracy is keeping me from my work. Knowing that women are going to die because men feel the need to have a say in the lives of women makes me want to do something rash. Having a bumbling coward for...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth

Part Eighty Four

“I knew my grandmother was awful, I always assumed she grew into that person. I used to hope that it was her age and the indignities that come with age that had something to do with how sour and angry she always was. My time in the village, and my time here have taught me otherwise.”

Josephine only grunted...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth

Party Eighty Three

The dream…

The nightmare, something she could never seem to fully wake from. One moment she was still so young and naïve, still trying to figure out how to survive her time in Josephine’s cave. One moment she was still shrugging and smiling shyly at how crazy everything in the old witch’s empire seemed, and the next she was...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth

Part Eight Two

Phillip and Taryn’s house came into view and Felecia found herself smiling in spite of the winter weather, and the circumstances she knew she would find when she arrived. The old hovel wasn’t much more than it had been the day she first camped out in the tree line just to the east of the shallow property line.

An...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth

Part Eighty One

When they finally arrived back at the cave entrance with its profane marker, Felecia didn’t need any coaxing to come and drink her fill of the sweet well water. The skins and the pan were stowed away and the two of them went inside the cave to stash the eggs and hang dry the varied plants that had been...
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Sun Kissed Innsmouth

Part Eighty

The old woman pleaded with Felecia and it sounded genuine, being in that moment felt like Nana asking for her help instead of commanding or goading, something only done when no other or better option was present. Yet unlike Nana, this wasn’t to save face or being used as an example in front of the help. Having Jacqueline ask her...
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