Fiction

Four Below the Floor

A story about a pharmacist, the girls he kept in a basement, and a teen on the verge

Felicia C. Sullivan
Human Parts
Published in
12 min readJun 4, 2020
A young woman reclines on grass, face hidden by her hair. An overexposure/double-exposure effect has been added to the photo.
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Years later, we would still talk about the girl who jumped out of a window. That was the summer the town pharmacist was found with four girls in his basement. Chained to a king bed, their bodies fanned out. Picked clean, they dried damp in the dark…

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Felicia C. Sullivan
Human Parts

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