Regeneration

A FOLK HORROR NOVELETTE FROM SYDNEY BOLLINGER FOR FANS OF MIDSOMMAR, SHIRLEY JACKSON'S THE LOTTERY, AND PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

In a small, isolated community, two sisters prepare for the Regeneration.

Leanne hasn't spoken with Mina in fifty-seven days.

Fifty-seven days without evening prayer together, kneeling over their beds, murmuring gratitude and asking for forgiveness. Fifty-seven days without sharing knowing glances across the dinner table and petty arguments about who gets to sit in the old plush chair during morning reverence. Fifty-seven days without Mina's breath on Leanne's ear, whispering secrets and sharing stories of girls who run through the woods, crimson blood trailing down their arms, hair whipping behind them. Only a few days until someone else might try to avoid the ceremony by escaping through the woods.

But, Mina would never run. She would never ignore the warnings and take off with bare feet and a crazed expression.

Leanne would never have to make the choice. Or would she?