Sea of Sorrows (ONC 2022)
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  • Reads 346
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  • Parts 8
  • Time 1h 32m
Ongoing, First published Feb 01, 2022
*entry for ONC 2022*
prompt seventy: his [her] eyes were cold and lifeless as he [she] stared at me. "you have no idea who i am, do you?"

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It's only been three weeks since Vera Watson and her father moved to Goldhurst Lighthouse. She's trying her best to settle in, but it's hard when they're the only non-white family living on the property. And to make matters worse, she's never worked at a lighthouse before.  

But when a storm rolls in--the first one Vera will experience since moving here--everything changes. In the middle of the raging tempest, Vera finds a strange girl by the rocky shore. Wearing a white dress, her skin pale white and her hair as dark as the night, she looks like a ghost. 

Thing is, she is. 

And she's asking Vera for help.    

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