Ancestral
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3 Months Free
Ancestral
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Narrated by:
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Sarah Keisler
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By:
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Angela Merlo
Originally written under the title Mother, this short story placed in the top 35 of TNT’s 2016 Horror Fiction Contest on Wattpad, selected from thousands of entries in a search for emerging voices in dark fiction.
Now revised and reimagined, Ancestral is a psychological supernatural short story about inherited darkness, emotional hunger, and the wounds passed down from one generation to the next.
When the bruises appear, a teenage girl knows what they mean. Her mother once told her stories—half warning, half confession. But some legacies don’t stay buried, and some hungers are harder to silence than others.
A quiet horror story about the ache for affection—and the monsters we sometimes become to survive.
©2025 Angela Merlo (P)2025 Angela Merlo