The Sea Turtles

By Faye Worthington

At thirty, Lindsay Ramone loves herself. How couldn’t she? She’s smart, beautiful, and enjoys acting and creating scenes. She has a good life. A positive life. And fortunately, she’s overseen by two very close and special people.

Lindsay is monetarily cared for by her wealthy uncle, a best-selling novelist who finds his niece similar to himself. Both suffer from mental illness, particularly depression. Lindsay’s uncle sends her numerous healthy checks, creating an easy lifestyle for her.

Lindsay’s second caregiver is her best friend, Jilly Joey Finn, a professional online product surveyor. They’ve known each other since the ninth grade. Jilly has always been an emotional rock and a strong support for Lindsay.

When Lindsay has the most electrically emotional and fascinating day in late August with Jilly, a dark and depressing day sneaks up on her. As predicted, Lindsay falls into a temperamental, dark depression. Mental illness begins to eat her alive, again.

Lindsay has a few mechanisms of resistance to help her mental illness: therapy tools, swimming naked with the sea turtles, and Jilly’s affections. But maybe Jilly has been crossing the line with her friendly holding ... at least lately she has. Now Lindsay wants to find out exactly why.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Jun 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9781685507718

Faye Worthington

Faye Worthington was born and raised in Niagara. She attended Templeton University in western Pennsylvania. Her degree is in female human studies. Faye's main focus is theories of womanliness and femininity. Her fiction has appeared in The Writer's Post Journal and other small literature venues. Her collections of poetry are Cult People, He Followed Me Home, and If You Ever Loved Me. Faye has also written three plays: Abusive, Suzanne and Margaret, and Breaking His Concentration.

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The Sea Turtles

By Faye Worthington

Published by JMS Books LLC

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Copyright 2024 Faye Worthington

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Published in the United States of America.

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Trigger warnings: Content includes the following triggers: mental illness, depression, suggestions of suicide, alcohol abuse, suggestions of sexual abuse, suggestions of psychological abuse, and body-shaming. And lots of wholesome friendship, real smiles, and a genuine happy ending.

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The Sea Turtles

By Faye Worthington

Comedy: Lindsay’s on a high.

Lindsay Ramone slides across the thirty-inch-wide quartz kitchen countertop in the one-bedroom flat again, like a Galapagos sea turtle. This way. That way. Gliding some. She’s almost incapable of moving her arms and legs on her belly. She wears a turquoise turtle pendant the size of a quarter around her neck on a silver chain, almost an inch thick. She believes she’s an It-Girl in high school again, with her plump-size checkered mini-skirt on her too-big thighs, even though she’s almost thirty now, and well over the seventy-five pounds she used to be in the twelfth grade. Lindsay wears a white cotton Kate Spade blouse with three buttons undone. The blouse barely covers her plenty-o-girls, as she refers to her breasts. Bright red lipstick is layered thickly over her Botox-inflated lips, which I know her wealthy Uncle Reed from Philly paid for with a recent check from his new trashy hardcover titled Evita Smiles. One of those books that someone on Goodreads called sex-filth in a recent review. It could have been me, but I’ll never tell. Lindsay thrusts left and right with arms and legs, and makes her way along the L-shaped stone counter as her faux Miss February cherry-red curls fall over her sparkling, emerald eyes. She smiles. She teases. She blinks.

"Get my cell and take a photo of me, Jilly. I want to put it on X. I’m sure I look tasty. All the college boys will want