Nellie

Female | 20s | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 18

EXTRACT: As soon as I saw it I hated it, but I wanted to please John so I smiled and ran down to the creek and took a huge gulp of water, and that was when he laughed and told me I should've paid attention to the name, that it was called Salt Creek for a reason, the water was foul, and I wondered again for the twentieth time if I had done the right thing marrying a man who would wait until after I had half poisoned myself, without warning me first. There's something wrong in that. There's something cruel..

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