Sunshine Lady

(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.