<![CDATA[Angelica Thorne: California Faultlines: IS: Start Here]]>https://www.angelicathorne.com/s/is-start-herehttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EnAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f597f39-e0ec-484b-ab48-8b9671dbb6e0_579x579.pngAngelica Thorne: California Faultlines: IS: Start Herehttps://www.angelicathorne.com/s/is-start-hereSubstackSat, 31 Oct 2026 19:54:43 GMT<![CDATA[Inherited Shame: Part I: My Future]]>https://www.angelicathorne.com/p/inherited-shamehttps://www.angelicathorne.com/p/inherited-shameSat, 22 Aug 2026 01:29:46 GMT
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  • Chapter 1: Work of Fiction

    Carol expects Andrea’s return to restore the future she scripted. When he no longer responds on cue, how far will she go to force him back into place?

  • Chapter 2: Unsaid

    Andrea returns to Carol with perfectly chosen gifts, and she pretends his attentiveness is love. How long can they both keep performing a relationship he has already left?

  • Chapter 3: My Crime

    Carol has spent years insisting she was different from everyone who looked away from Lucia’s abuse. As buried desire, old cruelty, and fresh bruises expose the cost of her silence, how long can she keep calling herself innocent?

  • Chapter 4: Neither Pure nor Simple

    Carol has spent years insisting she was different from everyone who looked away from Lucia’s abuse. As buried desire, old cruelty, and fresh bruises expose the cost of her silence, how long can she keep calling herself innocent?

  • Chapter 5: The Lies We Told

    As Andrea pulls away and Lucia grows secretive about Matteo, Carol buries herself in real estate, but when obsession threatens a sale, the future she can control starts looking less secure.

  • Chapter 6: Worn Out

    October 31, 2026

  • Chapter 7: Losing It

    November 7, 2026

  • Chapter 8: Ugly Cry

    November 21, 2026

  • Chapter 9: Dare Not

    December 5, 2026

  • Chapter 10: Astray, by Design

    December 19, 2026

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Book cover of Inherited Shame by Angelica Thorne featuring a woman in a dark green suit standing beside a mirror, reflecting a tense and introspective mood.

Before the lies became history, before Lucia learned to look through me, and before Andrea discovered that silence could make a coward feel innocent, I was still me.

My name is Elena Carolina Herrera. Ellie, if I like you. Carol, when I need the room to take me seriously.

This is San Diego in 1985, when every family in the neighborhood pretended to be something respectable. Daughters were good. Men were faithful. I simply happened to be better at playing the game than most.

They will probably call me manipulative. Narcissistic. Cruel. People love clinical language when a beautiful woman refuses to apologize.

Lucia will have her silence. Andrea will have his careful little version of events. Everyone else can clutch their pearls and explain what they believe I should have done.

But no one has the right to tell my story but me. Not the girl I loved. Not the boy I used. Not the family that taught me shame and then acted surprised when I learned to weaponise it.

Me.

I was there. More importantly, I know how the story should be told. And, darling, I never waste an entrance.

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