Visions of Life - ONC 2024 - Monique

Visions of Life - ONC 2024

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Parts 3
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Reads 42
Votes 13
Parts 3
Time 16m

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This is an entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024

Meet Blair, your average seamstress who works a thankless job sewing dresses for bachelorettes, weddings, and a plethora of other events in dire need of women in dresses. Her hopes and dreams are the same as all of us, owning a mortgage in hopes of affording a better place than her run-down, one-bedroom apartment. When a chance to afford a decent property with a down payment arises, how could she say no?

Though unlike all of us, Blair is capable of seeing beyond the veils of our existential plane. She has seen the limbo of the dead, and what she saw has forever altered her life. She will soon discover that this house of hers is a cursed tomb of memories of it's past inhabitants' grudges and unfinished businesses.

And she's not the only one...

Cover by @MilaForLifeAll Rights Reserved

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