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WIP intro - Warm Climates

genre: adult literary fiction / fantasy / horror, novella

( magical realism, queer gothic, the personification of the house, the lovecraftian horror of grief, death )

status: drafting / 2k words out of a ~20k word goal

pov: third person limited, present tense.

summary: Following the death of her mother, Cecilia Fierro leaves behind the city and a failed marriage in hopes of relearning herself, and finds more than she bargained for — a haunted house brimming with memories, an elusive woman in the woods, all the scars unseen and hidden inside of a soul.

tags: #: warm climates, #sun on skin, #celiza

characters:

Cecilia Fierro | 55, she/her, chained to the past in a way unknown even to her own self, painstakingly human.

Eliza | ??, she/her, knows curiosity wasn’t what killed the cat.

excerpt:

From here, the house seems to be millimeters tall and Cecilia would need to run for minutes in order to reach it. There was a time when that was easy, there was a time when running was the only option. The dirt road leaves its mark on the pickup truck’s windshield. It hasn’t rained in days. Maybe dirt is better than mud, anyway. Easier to clean up. The animals that were supposed to greet her have been dead for a long time. Maybe having no one to look after is better than the alternative, anyway. Less work for someone who’s running away from theirs. The house, its dauting presence, grows with each passing second — a good chunk of the plants around it has succumbed to the summer heat, and the rest is overgrown, ugly. It has too many windows, it’s painted this sickly dark-red, blood-red, wine color that churns Cecilia’s stomach. Keep the house, Cassie had said, It was always more yours than it was mine. Getting rid of something you were attached to for so long feels like disembodiment. Surgically removing a vital organ and watching as the blood gushes out of the wound.

Cecilia kept her dead mother’s farm house, of course. What else was she supposed to do?