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Rated: 13+ · Book · Contest Entry · #2275858
A collection of micro-fiction stories written for the The Micro-Fiction Challenge.
#1036223 added August 25, 2022 at 9:53am
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The Dismal Damsel
In the Great Dismal Swamp bordering Virginia and North Carolina, lives something… more than human. They call her the Dismal Damsel. She wanders an abandoned cabin South of lake Drummond that was built by a family of escaped slaves in 1862. Their eldest daughter swam daily in the lake, where she befriended a shapeshifting frog, Aogan. When the lake flooded, killing her entire family, Aogan spared her. He gave her gills and immortality in exchange for being protector of the lake.

She has no voice, but some say you hear gurgling, just before she drags you into the lake's heart.

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