The Summer Novella Challenge

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   Holysocks
   Holysocks · May 27, 2019

   The title is a work in progress.
   
   Brief collection of thoughts/summery:
   
   It follows a lass who gets sort of a "summer job" at a fabric store/seamstress. It's got an older feel to it though, so I'm not sure what to do about the summer job thing.
   
   Basically it's about the lass getting to know a wide variety of personalities in her coworkers, trying to comprehend who is really "on her side" and who is just "putting on a show" sort of deal- or rather, coming to terms, and learning about just how people can be not as they seem- both negative and positive.
   
   Though there's also aspects of supernatural/fantasy esque stuff going on! There's some sort of creatures that either do the seamstress work, or making the fabric, or keeping the place tidy... I'm not sure yet what exactly. And there is some sort of dark secret within the shop, being it one of the employees or management, I don't know yet!
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   Holysocks
   Holysocks · Jun 2, 2019

   Main Character:
   
   Name: Loretta (Lore)
   
   Age: somewhere between 18
   
   Appearance: She has long dirty-blonde hair, brown eyes. She's a taller girl around 5'8. She was covered in freckles as a kid, but since then they've started to fade, leaving little discoloured patches of skin under the few remaining clear freckles.
   
   Personality: Slightly timid/shy, but is a lot different person on the inside than what she lets on to. She has a fascination for medicine and all things medical. She's generally very polite and quiet until you get to know her, but she will speak up about something if she feels something really needs saying. She gets super excited about bodies of water, anytime anyone suggests going to one, but hasn't learnt to swim.
   
   History: Her family lives on a small farm in the country side. She has both her parents, her grandpa, and her two younger brothers living there. They've had a relatively peaceful life, but it's always hard getting by with their income being (a carrot farm?) and so they have always said they'd send her to the city to live with her father's sister to gain some experience and hopefully work/save up for an education.
   
   Ultimate Goal: She wants to be a doctor. She wants to be surgeon, more specifically. But she's not sure if she's squeamish or not and it terrifies her to think that the one thing she wants to do most, might be something she's unable to do.

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