The Idolaters of Cthulhu by H. David Blalock

Author:H. David Blalock [Blalock, H. David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dark fantasy, idolaters of cuthulhu, alban lake publishing, fantasy, cuthulhu anthology, cuthulhu, h david blalock
Publisher: Alban Lake
Published: 2015-07-30T05:00:00+00:00

She remembered the heat rising on her throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe. What few tears spilled down her cheeks after returning to the cottage were hot and brief. The ocean had given her a gift and her cousin had robbed her of it.

“She’s not really our flesh and blood,” Mila heard Clara’s pompous witch of a mother, Aunt Linda, say from the beach house’s back room. Clara had opened up after Mila pushed her, her screams loud enough to be heard all the way to the breakwater, Mila imagined. Aunt Linda coddled the girl, thinking their unwanted houseguest for the next two weeks out of earshot. “She’s not a real Barrington, like you.”

Mila supposed she always knew she wasn’t one of them, that her heart and especially her soul belonged to the sea. By the time her parents confessed she was adopted, Mila already sensed that she was different, and had buried the last of the hurt deep within her, where she imagined it growing, changing, transforming.

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