Bainbridge

"Bainbridge" is a short story by Caitlin R. Kiernan that features their recurring character Dancy Flammarion, the teenage albino monster-hunter. It was written in December 2005/January 2006, and was published for the first time in Kiernan's collection Alabaster (Subterranean Press, 2006). 
"Bainbridge" takes place shortly before the events of "Alabaster," in an abandoned church on the banks of the Flint River near Bainbridge, Georgia. There Dancy is accosted by a host of shadow creatures, and then confronts and defeats a creature called Elandrion, known as the demon of Hopekill Swamp. This narrative is interspersed with descriptions of Julia Flammarion, Dancy's mother, running away to Pensacola Beach, Florida, as a 15-year-old. She tries to commit suicide to escape the demands of the angel that hounded her the way it would later haunt Dancy; there's a suggestion that the angel relents in its attempts to make Julia its instrument in exchange for the rights to her unborn child, who was presumably conceived with one of the men Julia sleeps with during her escape to Pensacola.
The story belongs in continuity after "Highway 97," a story that was the original opening scene of "Bainbridge," which Kiernan says they "cut for some reason entirely lost to me now."Alabaster, "Highway 97: Author's Note," Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press, 2020). 
==References==
Category:Caitlin R. Kiernan works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works