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    Sunshine Lady
    Sunshine Lady
    Sunshine Lady
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    Sunshine Lady

    By Joseph D'Agnese

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    (Note: Sunshine Lady is a short story.)

    Letitia Huger knows her time on this earth is short. The year is 1887. Her lungs are rebelling against her, and the man she loves has run away with another woman.

    Wracked with pain, Letitia races against time and nature to get her affairs in order.

    First order of business: design a tomb that allows the light of the sun to shine on her face forever.

    Second: use her witchcraft to curse her husband and his kin for all time.

    Third: die—and wait for the horrific, final reckoning.

    Inspired by a true story.

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    Sunshine Lady is a 5,100-word short story, just one of six short stories in the Arm of Darkness collection.

    The full collection, sold separately, contains six short stories of horror: Skullworm, Roadhouse, Glow, Kin, Sunshine Lady, and the origin story, Arm of Darkness.

    Author Joseph D'Agnese is a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph D'Agnese
    Release dateDec 20, 2013
    ISBN9781310339790
    Sunshine Lady
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    Joseph D'Agnese

    Joseph D’Agnese is a journalist and author who has written for children and adults alike. He’s been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Discover, and other national publications. In a career spanning more than twenty years, his work has been honored with awards in three vastly different areas—science journalism, children’s literature, and mystery fiction. His science articles have twice appeared in the anthology Best American Science Writing. His children’s book, Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci, was an honoree for the Mathical Book Prize—the first-ever prize for math-themed children’s books. One of his crime stories won the 2015 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction. Another of his stories was selected by mega-bestselling author James Patterson for inclusion in the prestigious annual anthology, Best American Mystery Stories 2015. D’Agnese’s crime fiction has appeared in Shotgun Honey, Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. D’Agnese lives in North Carolina with his wife, the New York Times bestselling author Denise Kiernan (The Girls of Atomic City).

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      Sunshine Lady - Joseph D'Agnese

      Sunshine Lady

      Sunshine Lady

      A Short Story

      Joseph D’Agnese

      Nutgraf Productions LLC

      Sunshine Lady

      Published by Joseph D’Agnese at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 Joseph D’Agnese

      First e-book publication by Nutgraf Productions LLC, December 2013.

      Cover art copyright © 2013 Jason Gurley jasongurley.com

      This e-book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this e-book may be reproduced in whole or in part, scanned, photocopied, recorded, distributed in any printed or electronic form, or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without express written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Sunshine Lady by Joseph D’Agnese

      Letitia Huger knows her time on this earth is short. The year is 1887. Her lungs are rebelling against her, and the man she loves has run away with another woman.

      Wracked with pain, Letitia races against time and nature to get her affairs in order.

      First order of business: design a tomb that allows the light of the sun to shine on her face forever.

      Second: use her witchcraft to curse her husband and his kin for all time.

      Third: die—and wait for the horrific, final reckoning.

      Sunshine Lady is just one of six short stories in the ARM OF DARKNESS collection. The full collection contains six short stories of horror: Skullworm, Roadhouse, Glow, Kin, Sunshine Lady, and the origin story, Arm of Darkness.

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      Sunshine Lady

      1. The Client, 1887

      The dying woman had beautiful hair. It was the only thing about her that looked fully alive. It was the color of a Carolina wren, and very long. Just how long was difficult to gauge, since the woman did not stand up much any more.

      She wore a dress of purple velvet with a fine lace collar. She was bundled excessively for spring, it seemed; the weather had begun to climb into the mid-seventies. From her settee she peered at the undertaker as if he were a potential lover. Indeed, he would be the last man on earth to touch her.

      I think you will recall that all along I have termed it a strange request but not an insurmountable one, he said. I’ve made some discreet inquiries, and I’m happy to say that we now have samples which arrived by train from Chicago only this morning.

      He gestured at the boy, his sister’s son, who carefully lifted two boxes from the carriage and carried them to the porch of the boarding house. The boy was young, no more than

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