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Genre: Horror & Thriller
About Ice_DragonessLocation: Montezuma, GA Home Region: Age:57 Website: http://fantasywrider.writing.com/ Favorite novels: GodStalk Trilogy, Duma Key, Red Phoenix, Trainman, Bag of Bones, Lisey's Storey, The Historian, Vrolok, Los Alamos, The Grays, Vodoun, The Moonstone Favorite writers: P. C. Hodgell, Larry Bond, P. T. Deuterman, Tim Powers, Stephen King, Elizabeth Kostova, Dean Koontz, Whitley Strieber, David Madsen, Wilkie Collins Favorite music: 70's-80's soul; Jazz; Gloria Estefan, Anita Baker, Gladys Knight Non-noveling interests: reading; writing; Judaism; metaphysics, PaintShop Pro creation, environment & wildlife, space & extraterrestrial sentience, astrology |
Joined: October 4, 2006 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 28 NaNoWriMo buddies: 12
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Brief Author Bio: 2-time winner back after a year of mostly non-writing due to continuing personal health crises and familial upheavals. I'm different, I'm humbled, I'm motivated, and have already begun my personal Nano countdown! |
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Synopsis: Mediumistic Mary Moves to Standwood Station Georgia
YA Historical Supernatural:
Second Sight from birth, Mary moves from South Alabama to spooky Standwood Station, GA, in May 1911, after opting not to commit suicide after all (to end the Sight). The death of her Aunt Grace at a seance and Aunt's will leaving all to found a Spiritualist congregation in Cameron's Crossing, AL, will leave Mary and her newly-possessed/insane mother now homeless. Mary mother Lucinda Maye elects to take up the post of Spiritualist Minister at the church in Standwood Station GA, where a young girl much like Mary once lived-and died-in the mid-19th century.
Excerpt: Mediumistic Mary Moves to Standwood Station Georgia
Second Sight Spiritualist MARY IN STANDWOOD STATION:
Mary Moves to the House on Little Poe Lane
Sequel to MARY AT THE OLD RAILROAD TRESTLE
Genre: YA Historical Supernatural
POV: first Person Narrative
Historical Fiction: Supernatural/Gothic/Paranormal/Spiritualism
epigraph:
"In any case, during its active years-and
they were very active-women in Rose Red
had a tendency to turn up missing, and men
had a tendency to turn up dead." Stephen
King's Rose Red
“The dead have highways.”
Clive Barker, “The Book of Blood”
Prologue:
Should I walk to the very edge, to the last tie, and stand tiptoe like a ballet dancer on point, and v-e-r-y slowly tilt forward—and then fall?
Or should I race from the land side, all along the old raggedy ties, as the Double-Dog-Dare fool town boys,
running as close to the edge as possible, then leap into midair like an angel with unfolding wings—then drop as a stone down into the deep murky waters of the Coalusia, sinking down into a place where at last there will be silence-and peace-and NO Sight.
I am Mary, I am fourteen years old, and all my life I have suffered with Second Sight. Everyone I loved I have lost, most to death; my mother to some new strange kind of possession. I hate my life, I am tired of Seeing, I only want to be dead myself-in the silence and peace of the grave.
No-I know better; for there is no silence and peace in the grave, only longing and yearning and wishing and despair. But I want that- because in the grave I will not be able to See-or will I?
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