Sarah Cline

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“Hawthorn Girls” by Sarah Cline

Submitted to Contest #202

Hawthorn Girlsby Sarah ClineSpring, in west Texas, just before the end of things.I frowned and nudged the gas pedal as I neared the side road that branched toward the kudzu-wrapped church where Anne and I had met the summer before first grade.Our families didn’t know each other yet. Just chance, that we’d sat next to each other one Sunday, when an ornery summer wind muttered at the doorway.The preacher had been in rare form, jowls aquiver and sweat rolling down one temple. “And in lakes of fire, the sinners burn! And in ashes and torment, t...

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Sarah Cline is a fan and writer of fantasy, science fiction, horror, literary, weird fiction, and all things speculative. For longer fiction, check out her gothic fantasy series, The Sagas of the Fallen Earth.