The Witch House of Persimmon Point
“Gossip-worthy from its birth, the Witch House teased its neighbors with its oddness, hinting at horrors that people began to talk about without fear. With Reginald and Gwyneth dead, rumors that had only ever bubbled below the surface broke wide. Missing people and devil worship. Poppy fields and infanticide. Gwyneth most certainly killed all her babies. Reginald must have had rows and rows of cages in the cellar for the people he experimented on. The monsters he made. Then killed. Then fed to a...ll those who came to their soirees.
Any doubts Nan might have had about changing her life completely no longer mattered: now she had no choice. These were the types of verbal weapons she left Italy to avoid. Her baby would not grow up unsafe.
When word spread that she’d been left the deed to the property, the talk was about her affair with Reggie, and the baby she carried. She cried. And then she went to church and fed their fears.
“I will not speak of it. It was terrible,” she’d sniff.
“You were taken prisoner by them?”MoreLess
Any doubts Nan might have had about changing her life completely no longer mattered: now she had no choice. These were the types of verbal weapons she left Italy to avoid. Her baby would not grow up unsafe.
When word spread that she’d been left the deed to the property, the talk was about her affair with Reggie, and the baby she carried. She cried. And then she went to church and fed their fears.
“I will not speak of it. It was terrible,” she’d sniff.
“You were taken prisoner by them?”MoreLess
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