Bathed in Mourning's Light is a Southern Gothic short story of lost love, desperation, and violence.
Fifteen years after leaving the South, Marcel receives a letter from Jannette, the woman he once loved, asking him to return and help her escape her troubled marriage. But when Marcel arrives at the decaying Delmore Manor, he finds that time has changed far more than the house. Jannette is desperate for freedom, and the reunion Marcel imagined quickly descends into something darker.
Exploring love, trauma, obsession, and the consequences of arriving too late, Bathed in Mourning's Light is a complete standalone story in the Pocket-Sized Tragedies series, designed to be read in a single sitting.
Pocket-Sized TragediesPocket-Sized Tragedies is a collection of brief, standalone works of literary fiction exploring history, humanity, and the darker turns of the human experience.
Designed to be read in a single sitting, each story delivers a complete tale in a compact form- small books with lasting consequences.