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Sandra (Sandy) Tillman – 32-year-old real estate agent – quite ordinary, unassuming, and happy not to be in a relationship beyond the one she shares with her best friend, Melissa. Sandy did not have a grand plan beyond hosting a Halloween party at the Hawthorne House, willed to Melissa when her grandfather died three years […]
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Dr. Cara Williams Meet Dr. Cara Williams, Clinical Psychologist & Director of Research in the School of Psychology at Central State University, Carteret County, North Carolina. She lives by herself but under the supervision of a big black tomcat named Ezekiel, better known as Zeke, the center of her world, and the only man welcome […]
Melissa Merriweather and Sandy Tillman pulled into the long driveway of the Hawthorne Estate and were struck by the conditions of the overgrown grounds and a massive house obviously neglected, not to mention how the whole visual looked haunted as hell. Three years earlier, Mel’s grandfather, Marcus T. Hawthorne III, was found dead in a […]
Katherine (Kat) Jackson is a 28-year-old Senior Project Manager rapidly approaching burnout; she takes her boss’s advice to take time off to reconnect with herself and relax and recharge. Neither of which happened. Good plan in theory, but when the spirit of Big Crow with Little Feet, a 162-year-old Arapaho medicine man, takes her in […]
What Big Crow with Little Feet saw were two men dressed completely in black standing over the crumpled form of an unconscious Katherine on the floor of the landing. The men were not men at all; they were evil spirits who came to eliminate the possibility of the prophecy coming to pass. Katherine and the […]
As I watched the news this morning and the disruption caused by AI fear in panicked congresspersons who barely know how to spell AI correctly, spewing solutions from guardrails to policy and regulation, I felt compelled to write this piece. Chicken Little is spinning plates of hysteria while gullible media throws accelerant on the fires […]
This tale is about what happens to an ordinary 32-year-old real estate agent when she selects an old book from a library shelf during a pre-party planning visit. What happens next is by no means planned… The book, Mirror Mirror, an ancient leather-bound tome with faded gold-leaf calligraphy on the spine, caught Sandy’s attention. It […]
0822326 – Book Blurb: “Mirror Mirror: Halloween Party of the Century” Sandy was overwhelmed when the dressing mirror erupted with a bolt of energy as the entity eliminated her attackers. Terror overwhelmed her, and in a fit of rage she threw the ancient tome that possessed her at the mirror, shattering it. The book ricocheted […]
Sample Chapter 27 – Jail Break Sarah leaned over and whispered to Sandy, “Remember, this is an arraignment. You have nothing to defend, nothing to explain, and no one to convince of your innocence. That happens during a trial, if there is one. The judge will ask how you plead, and your answer is, ‘Not […]
Leeds Book Club – Initial Thoughts for August 29th Q&A on “Mirror Mirror; Halloween Party of the Century” As I prepare for the upcoming Q&A, I’ve been exchanging messages with Hannah, the Book Club Organizer, and supporting her by answering a few questions in advance. Where did you leave off with the work on Mirror […]