Miael: Family:A supernatural horror fantasy fable

Curiosity may well have killed the cat, but it damned for eternity the phoenix and the seraph.

Born into one of the poorest and most notorious families in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains, Jessica Louise Bell didn't want for much aside from a full belly and enough learning to read the old family bible. That her folks kept her holed up in their remote, ramshackle cabin made her no mind. That they left the 7 year-old alone all hours of the day and sometimes into the night, made her no mind either.

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