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Bradley Ramsey's avatar

Awesome work, Melanie! I love how you took the concept of the setting and applied it to a real world location. The action was intense, and I particularly like how the "sacrifice" here as part of the prompt ended up saving them from the sinkholes.

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Melanie Cole's avatar

Thank you so much! So many of these elements were/are true. I used to keep a gris-gris bag in my pocket that was given to me by a voodoo priestess when she learned I worked for the Red Cross. I had a habit of rubbing it when I felt nervous or uncomfortable. It was lost when I moved home from New Orleans.

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Maryellen Brady 💗📚's avatar

This is awesome & I love it is set in the PNW! Home Sweet Home 💖🙌💖

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Melanie Cole's avatar

I so wanted to set it in Louisiana but then the earthquakes would make no sense lol So I took a drive to Olympia instead 😬

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