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Tiny Threads by Lilliam Rivera
5.0

Tiny Threads is a story that haunted me while reading and has continued to haunt me since then. Samara got her dream job and moved from New Jersey to Vernon, California. Vernon and the job turn out to be a psychological and physical trauma for her. She begins to be consumed by the history of trauma that her job and the city itself embody. She can't sleep, and she can't function; she will either be consumed by it, or she must face it, fight it, and defeat it. 

The way the story is told and the haunting that Samara encounters reminded me so much of the way the women in my family recount ghost stories and stories of people being haunted by spirits.