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Swallow, Starving Faithful | ONC 2020

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Parts 9
Time 1h 35m

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Sarah Enríquez lives stuffed within a skinny frame, stuffed within soggy puddles, and stuffed within the muddy walls of Lo Vásquez Retiro, an Argentine Catholic youth camp. She grovels before Christ and endures the worst of those around her, escaping into the bushland to pray and sleep. She hurts.

Sarah isn't alone. She fears the resident psychopath; little does she know, through passion, psychosis, and this very individual, her fragile life will take a turn for the fantastical. 

Chapter titles inspired/taken from Mariana Enriquez. 

Submission of the Open Novella Contest 2020. Cover by @podxnok.All Rights Reserved

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