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by JerkGently

Chapter 12

Maude Merryweather looked out across a sea of faces from her perch upon the small church’s altar. Most of them she recognised from a life spent embroiled in the insular, suffocating spiral that was rural village life. Yet none of them she felt especially close to, she realised… e...

by JerkGently

Chapter 2

Nestled in a valley high up in the Sierra Nevada, the town of Beso de Rocío is known for its sun-drenched streets and seemingly unlimited supply of beautiful women. The latter, or so the locals say, is due to a tradition that has taken place here for the last 600 years or more, s...

by JerkGently

Chapter 4

The men crowded around Alba’s prostrate form, jostling for position. It had been an hour or so since the sun had first risen on this spectacle and there hadn’t been a break yet in the stream of eager participants. I sat to one side, at a rickety table outside a pretty little cafe...

by JerkGently

Chapter 5

As the morning wears on and the hours drag by, it worries me how used to the ongoing spectacle I was becoming. I sit at my table outside the pleasant, little cafe and order another coffee while typing up my notes from the start of Alba’s experience. Every so often I wander over a...