Hi everyone. Hope you are all well and enjoying the end of summer. I’m sharing another snippet this weekend from Blood Stoned, my Jinx series story coming out this week.
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From Blood Stoned~
Sarah stood outside the shed watching me groom Clarence. I couldn’t leave the lean-to without walking past her, a thing I didn’t want to do.
“Langdon needs you, Maggie. He sent me to fetch you,” she called to me. Her mouth moved and the words were spoken in a voice I recognized as hers. I might have believed and rushed to join her had her head not listed to the side in an odd way.
Sarah’s dead, I reminded myself. Nevertheless, a facsimile of what she’d been, floated outside the door waiting for me.
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Have a great week, everyone!!
gem
Sometimes it’s easy to see the dead.
Nice 8!
Oh wow … I didn’t expect that last paragraph. Well done.
Oh wow…I didn’t see that one coming! Another to my TBR… 🙂
Like those above me, I never saw that last line. Definitely a wow-factor.
Wow a ghost! It’s good that Sarah seems to be nice.
Brilliant snippet Gem! Something so normal, blown out of the water! I know I wouldn’t want to go anywhere near this “Sarah-facsimilie”!
I had a feeling something was wrong when she didn’t want to walk past “Sarah”. It’s good she noticed the head tilt.
Oh Gem, the way you write, the way you think. . .beyond wonderful.
Whoa, Gem—this is a showstopping scene. And it fits beautifully with Maggie’s sort of luck, doesn’t it? 🙂
Oh my, that was unexpected! Great snippet! Love the twist:).
Ooh spooky and impactful. Can’t wait for more, terrific excerpt!
Creepy. I like it. 🙂
Eerie! I like it.
Great scene. Loved the last paragraph. But I’m curious… Is Langdon really in need of her help and Sarah’s spirit came to get her to help him? Or is Sarah’s spirit (or the image of Sarah being used by something else) there to hurt her? (I’m guessing she/it is outside the lean-to because she/it can’t cross the threshold without an invitation?)
😀 I like the way you think.
I’m intrigued. Didn’t know her reason of not wanting to walk past Sarah was because she was a ghost until the last lines. Enjoyed the snippet and want to know more.
Still love this premise and the snippets keep getting better!
Yeah, who wants to follow the directions of someone whose head flops to one side.
Whoa, what?! I hadn’t seen THAT coming! Ah, the price of seeing the dead. It’s both a wonderful and a torturous thing. I can’t blame Maggie for not wanting to walk past her. Something is real eerie here and I love how you wrote it! Great snippet!
Neat… I’m liking the way you introduce the ghost. Great, understated descriptions…