Sunday, October 19, 2025

The Sweater Curse Ch 1 by Leanne Dyck

WARNING: This story contains adult content


WARNING: Chapters One, Three and Fourteen contain themes of suicide that may be triggering for some readers. Reader discretion is advised.

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     Aspiring knitwear designer Gwen Bjarnon is stuck in Purgatory. To escape, she must re-examine her life, journey through her past and right a wrong.

    But which wrong?

    Young and in love, she works to establish her career, except fate has different plans. One rash act and she looses everything. Never resting, always seeking and yearning for what she can no longer have,     Gwen faces the truth: if she remains, others are destined to die.

    How will she solve the mystery before it is too late?

photo by ldyck


Chapter One


     This isn’t Heaven. It isn’t Hell. And I’m not alive.

    Picture this: a bus stop, tons of people packed into the same small space, all waiting to continue their journey. Many buses stop here. Some passengers get off, others get on. Young children with sickly white complexions huddle together in the shelter. Teenagers with rope burns around their necks get off the bus. Old men with bullet holes climb on.

    Throughout this confusion, the only constant is me. I remain alone.

    Why?

    I must find the reason. I must examine my life to discover the momentary lapse. The wrong I’ve committed. The task I’ve neglected. It’s my only means of escape.


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The Sweater Curse

Chapter Two

Surprisingly, Mother did allow my aunt to teach me to knit. 


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