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The Seashell’s Hidden Secret Ep.1

Tanya’s beach find is beautiful, but may not be an ordinary shell

Jacinta Palmer
The Kraken Lore
Published in
5 min readSep 11, 2022

The children came home from the beach, hungry and tired. Their hair was tangled by the salty sea breeze, and their feet and legs were caked with sand. Dad had brushed it off, stinging and abrasive, outside the step into the holiday cottage, but Mum insisted on a bath, as soon as they’d eaten.

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Jacinta Palmer
The Kraken Lore

Writing the kind of fiction I love to read | YA | Magical | Romance | Supernatural | Editor (she/her) | Besotted with dogs