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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

This has been likened to many other stories, but a review that I read said it best. At core, this is an all-too-realistic fairy tale. There are five sisters, all of whom are on the verge of womanhood, about to leave the confines of the house they grew up in. The rumors are that they can turn themselves into hounds and that they hunt by night and are maidens by day. Who has more power than a girl on the age of being a woman, so multiply that by five, give them a bit of freedom, and watch the men in thier sphere try to make sense of them. Given how much the power of women still feels threatening today, imagine what that could mean 300 years ago? The fact that there is a move afoot to try to put that genie back into the bottle in America today, think Salem Witch trials with an are they or aren't they about them.

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