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  • Parts 10
  • Time 54m
Complete, First published Aug 31, 2023
Mature
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1640

A young Puritan woman named Hester Prynne learns her husband is missing, presumed dead. She is secretly glad to be able to maintain her independence until she seeks comfort from a new minister, Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale.

Despite each knowing that their strict religion bans any relationship between them, the pair cannot help but develop a deep bond, and each face a different consequence for it, namely a Scarlet Letter.
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If you have ever read The Scarlet Letter: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne and thought to yourself, what romance? How did these two goody goodies commit the sexual sinning needed for this plot to happen?

Well, friends, I have given it a lot of thought, and trying to mimic the diction of the source material, I present my interpretation of the romance and maybe you will be a little sad that these two lived in such a society they couldn't ever be happy together.

(September 2023)

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