STRANGE FRUITShop the archiveEpisode 7 · 1961 · Pensacola, Florida
My Friends
At a graduation party in Pensacola, a girl with no family and no one expected to come looking is given a poisoned drink and thrown overboard. Her attackers chose Annie because they believed she was alone. They did not know something ancient was waiting beneath the ocean.
- Collection
- Season 1
- Episode
- 07
- Runtime
- 5:07
- Year
- 1961
- Setting
- Pensacola, Florida
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Original production artwork · 01
Inside the story
The ocean remembers everything.
Annie is targeted because her attackers believe isolation makes her disposable.
Their mistake is assuming that having no one on shore means having no one at all.
Characters
AnnieThe girl they believed no one would miss
Production notes
Set during a 1961 graduation party in Pensacola.
The story moves from the beach to a force waiting beneath the ocean.
The production archive includes extensive ocean, transformation, and character artwork.
Content advisory
Bullying, poisoning, attempted murder, and supernatural horror.
The world around the story
1961: young people crossed forbidden lines.
Annie's fate is fictional, but her graduation summer arrives during a youth-led wave of direct action against segregation across Florida and the Deep South.
Historical context · The episode itself is a work of fiction.
May 1961
Freedom Riders enter the Deep South
Black and white riders challenged segregated interstate bus facilities, enduring attacks while forcing federal law into public view.
Explore the source · Library of Congress1960–1961
Sit-ins reshape public space
More than 70,000 people participated in sit-ins as young organizers challenged segregation at counters and other public accommodations.
Explore the source · National Park Service
Continue the story
The episode ends.
The story goes deeper.
Return to this world in the full novel-length expansion of My Friends.
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