More cold weather! Brrrrr.
I'll reveal what
several other authors and I have to share with you in a minute, but first, a ghost
story.
Tuesday of this
past week, I was tied to my computer pretty closely most of the day. I did have
to break away once in a while, of course. My office is just off my living room,
and I was coming back from one of those break-away trips around 5 p.m. I
stepped down the one step from the dining room to the living room, and ….
Suddenly, I
noticed someone get up from the couch to my left. I was alone in the house,
since son had taken hub to a doctor's appointment. My animals were around
somewhere, of course, and this wasn't an animal. The man wore a black and white
checked plaid shirt and was rather broad across the shoulders. It appeared I'd
startled him, and he'd hurriedly risen to perhaps hide. Which he did, because
he dissolved before I got a better look at him.
I halted and
stared at where I'd seen him. "Hi," I said. "I haven't seen you
before."
I'm Dan, I heard.
He didn't seem
communicative beyond that. I tried to chat with him a bit more, saying, "I
get the impression you're a nice guy."
I had felt that
about him, and he didn't scare me at all. But instead of him answering, I
sensed him approach. He felt rather
happy and excited, perhaps due to the fact someone actually acknowledged and
spoke to him. However, he got a little too enthrusiastic and tried to use me to
physically channel.
I just don't
allow that. I will mentally communicate with a ghost or spirit, but I have no
experience in physical channeling and it's far too dangerous to do without
training and preparation. I've had this happened before — a ghost try to
physically channel through me — and one day I found a good way to halt them. I
curled my fingers, then make a flicking motion at Dan.
"Huh
uh," I said. I still couldn't see him, only sense him, and I sensed he was
pretty surprised as he tumbled back away form me. "I don't allow
that," I explained. "If you want to chat with me telepathically, I'll
be glad to do that. Not any other way, though."
A faint mist
appeared in the living room, then I saw some small, dark orbs flitting around.
They zipped and zoomed gaily, as though confirming that Dan was a happy guy and
wasn't ticked at my flicking him off. I guess he thought it was fun.
Since I needed
to get back in my office, I waved and said, "You're welcome to hang around
or you can cross over, whichever you want, Dan. But if you stay, you have to
behave."
My office faces
east, so before I gave my attention back to what I was doing, I looked out the
window and opened a door. I haven't seen Dan again, so maybe he crossed over.
Time will tell.
Update: Angela
stopped by on Thursday, and as we chatted in the living room, we both felt someone around us. "I don't
recognize this as any ghost I've sensed here before," she said.
So maybe Dan is
still hanging around. Or maybe someone else dropped in. After all, it's a
haunted house.
~~~~
As to what was
keeping me tied to the computer, I was waiting for the proof of the ad for a
promotion for our e-books and audiobooks that twenty-one of us are doing with …
ta da! … CBS Radio! The theme is: What's better than chocolate … and has no
calories?
The ad is chock
full of links for a variety of books, everything from mysteries to suspense to
fantasy/horror to all sorts of heat levels of romance. The buy links are easy
to follow and just about all of these books have been discounted for this
promotion. My Dead Man Talking is
going out to an entirely new audience of readers, and I'm so excited.
I'm ecstatic to
be a part of this! I hope my friends and readers find something to enjoy among
all these fantastic authors. Please feel free to share this with all your own
friends and neighbors, followers and family, and thank you so very much if you
do. It will be on my Facebook page, also, of course.
Happy reading,
and ….
Boo!
T. M.
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