Sammi's
Ghost and Silent Prey
Buy links for Silent
Prey in the writing portion!! Finally!!
Sammi and Aunt Belle
I
missed several weeks, I know. I'll tell you why in the second part, where I
report on my writing. But it seems I'm apologizing for missing weeks each time
I'm able to post a blog these days. Just not enough hours in a day, or more
accurately, enough hours that I have lots of energy! Getting older ain't for
sissies. <sigh>
My
house has been fairly active during the month of October, with the Veil thinning
until Halloween. That's the month when ghosts can communicate more easily, even
cause mischief, if they wish. Of course, mine are well aware of where the line
is between teasing and irritation; what will draw a laugh and what will get
them disciplined if they cross it. J
Howard
is always active. Earlier this month, I was working in my office and he walked
across the porch in front of my window several times. Once my little dog,
Dancer, barked, which usually means there's someone at the front door and I
haven't heard the doorbell. Since I'd just seen someone pass my window, I got
up to check. Nope. I heard Howard chuckling. He loves to make me get up and
look for him, especially since it verifies I've actually seen him.
He's
also been pacing around at night, when I'm trying to read in bed. For some
reason, he keeps walking back and forth across the doorway from my bedroom into
a small hall just outside that door. When he does this, he blocks out the light
for a split second, and it draws my attention from my Kindle. After he's
interrupted my reading a few times, I usually turn my back and lie on the other
side to read. Darn Howard. At night before I go to sleep is the only time I get
to read these days.
I've
had a lot of other incidents this month, but nothing out of the ordinary:
hearing my name called and no one is here; feeling the paranormal energy,
especially in the bedroom at night and in the kitchen; catching glimpses of
"something." One thing out of the ordinary, though, is seeing
full-bodied apparitions several times, again, in our bedroom. I've walked in
there more than once and seen someone standing there or looked over my Kindle
and seen someone who definitely wasn't Howard. They were such brief sightings,
I couldn't tell much, except this one appears to be a man. Aunt Belle is coming
in for a visit in a couple weeks, and we're taking off on a girls-only overnight.
Maybe she can figure out who it is. In fact, she probably can.
I
can also usually count on Aunt Belle for a blog subject, and she mentioned
something late last month that I haven't had time to post. It was another tale
about her daughter Sammi's ghost. That guy is the one I told y'all about a few
blogs ago, who "lives" with Aunt Belle's daughter in the mobile home
next door. It was also after Aunt Belle had told Sammi about Harold, the ghost
she encountered when she went over to feed Sammi's animals.
"Sammi's
ghost scared her the other day," Aunt Belle said to me in our phone
conversation.
"Tell!
Tell!" I said. "What did he do?"
Now,
we aren't unsympathetic when a ghost scares someone. In fact, we march in and
discipline the ghost, which Aunt Belle will do if Sammi can't handle things
herself. We just like scary stories, so that's why I was excited to hear about
this.
"When
I told her about Harold, Sammi nodded and said, 'That's who it is, then.' She
had thought that tall ghost she saw at the foot of her bed was her husband,
Joey's, dad. This tall guy, Harold, also loves to play with the cats. They
played back with him, and they ran through the house."
Since
Sammi is quite the animal lover, she always has dogs and cats around. Recently,
she brought a litter of kitten inside, since she was worried something would
happen to them. The kittens are old enough to run around now, so Harold has
lots of playmates.
"Sammi
was in her bedroom and one of her cats came in and dove under the bed,"
Aunt Belle said. "Then something kept bumping against her bedroom door,
really hard, making a loud noise. It kept up so long, it really scared Sammi,
because there was absolutely no one standing at that door to make that
noise."
"Cool,"
I said with a laugh. "But not for Sammi, huh?"
"No,
not for her. She said she tried to get the cat out from under the bed, and it
wouldn't come at all. So even though she was scared, she got mad. She stood up
and told Harold: 'Look, you can stay here if you behave yourself. But what
you're doing is scaring me! So knock it off and don't do it again! Otherwise,
you're out of here.'"
"Did
it work?" I asked.
"Far
as I know," Aunt Belle said. "Harold's behaved himself. I'm sure he
knows we can banish him if he doesn't."
"What
about Arthur?" I asked.
"I
haven't seen him for a while. But that happens with him. He disappears for so
long, I forget about him. Then he shows up again. He'll be back."
And
he will. Even when we cross ghosts we encounter into the Light, they come back
and visit us.
~~~~
As
to the writing, here it is! Angela had done another fantastic cover for me. She
knows what she wants and she won't finish the cover until she has it exactly
right in her own mind. I'm a fumble-thinker (just made up that word, since I
can do that as a writer) when it comes to designing something like that. I can
write all day about it, but not envision things like she can.
Silent Prey
But
I call this my Book from Hell. The thing is, I started it a couple years ago,
got about a third of the way through, then set it aside for a while. There was
a new Dead Man Mystery, Dead Man Ohio,
intruding on writing Silent Prey. So
I wrote it and another set of diaries, plus my annual Halloween story. Then I
got back to Silent Prey. I don't know
how many of you are also writers, but we are a weird bunch. I had a horrible
time returning to this book, but I love the story. However, the edits were a
drain, with some inconsistencies and places the writing could have been lots
stronger. So instead of glossing it over and publishing it, I kept it here in
my hot little fingers.
Except
for having a few people reading and critiquing it, and going over it several
times myself. I want my books to be a fantastic read for y'all, and I won't
publish them until I'm satisfied I've met that goal. And that's my excuse for
missing several blog weeks, the edits on the Book from Hell. That's my story
and I'm sticking to it!
Aunt
Belle and I are sneaking away to an undisclosed site in November. Once or twice
a year, I drag her off so we can do like we did in the "old days,"
just her and me and the ghosts. She and I both need a rest, and there's nothing
more restful than visiting with ghosts.
So
here are the links for Silent Prey,
at least a few of them. However, it's up on all the Amazon sites and just about
anywhere else that sells ebooks. Enjoy!
Silent Prey
Buy Links:
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/588960
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Boo!
T.
M.
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