Swingshift: Babes of the Abyss - Part V

"That sorted, I got down to work banging together a binding ritual to capture and incapacitate my girlfriend. It is not the sort of thing my old man touched on when he explained the birds & bees. However, I would be lying if I told you this was the first time it had come up. "

Part V of Babes of the Abyss is live at T21.
 

This chapter is a personal favorite.  All the peculiar elements of the series, dark humor, occult elements, horror tropes, intoxicated shenanigans are all at work her in the service of some complex personal ideas and emotions.  When I revisited this chapter for a last round of edits, I had one of those moments of estrangement from the text.  The words felt new to me, as if they had been written by someone else.  It is always a strange sensation and this is first time I experienced it writing this series.

 
Thanks, as always, for all of your support.





Swingshift: Babes of the Abyss - Part V

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