Listen "Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep"
Episode Synopsis
SPOILERS ABOUND! This novel contains a TWIST you don't want to ruin, so listen at your own risk. Vesper Wright left home at eighteen to escape her family, who has been entrenched in a religious cult community for decades, and she hasn't looked back. That is, until she gets a wedding invitation for her childhood best friend's marriage to her high school love. She doesn't know who sent the invitation or if she is even welcome back home, but she finds that curiosity is too overwhelming and decides she has to attend. Whoever said you can't go home again must not have had such a toxic upbringing… Recommended in this episode: T. Kingfisher's What Feasts at Night UP NEXT: "Your Mother's Love is an Apocalypse" by Gwendolyn Kiste (the last story in the anthology MOTHER KNOWS BEST, which includes Lisa Kroger's own story "Almonds") Buy the anthology at your favorite local bookstore or online here. Buy Toil and Trouble here!
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