Down by the Bay: A Southern Gothic Short Story

Luellen Temperence fled from her small hometown of Duckett, Louisiana at the age of sixteen. She is haunted by the memories of her best friend Tessie's drowning at Hangman's Bay six years prior, for which she was wrongfully blamed.

Now thirty, Luellen lives paycheck to paycheck working at a small casino in Atlanta, Georgia. Her comfortable life is shattered however, when she receives a letter from her mother begging her to come home, telling Luellen there is something she needs to know rig...