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The Ragged Wood

Chapter One: O hurry to the ragged wood

Content warning: This story contains paranormal sex that may offend some readers.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

It wasn’t snowy, but it may well have been the darkest evening of the year, Quinn thought as she stood at the end of the forest. There was a moon tonight, but the dense woods made the vale a black hole, a place blacker than the sharp night around her.

She thought about why those lines of the poem came to her as she stood, shivering, watching the rest of the Sigma Epsilon Xi pledges run, stroll, or tiptoe down the path and disappear almost instantly in the gloom, those wearing white bras, panties, and boxers visible only a second longer than the rest before they too, were gone. Their defiant shouts, whispered jokes, and nervous laughter disappeared along with their bodies, signals severed like cut phone lines.

The words were dark and deep, that much was true. Lovely? Maybe, but if they were…