Six Sentence Sunday - Suzie's Nightmare - Chapter 1
A day late, but certainly not forgotten. In my defense, Dragon*Con has been eating my time this weekend, but dang it was so much fun! My feet and legs are still sore from hours standing and walking between the five hotels. And I went to some amazing writing panels. More details to come as I let my brain detox. But for now, here's my entry for Six Sentence Sunday.
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Here's a snippet from my novel I'm working on rewrites for at the moment. Hoping to have it ready to start sending around in the next couple of months.
Setup: Suzie and Fred are a couple of kids who stumbled upon a very unusual scene in the woods of their subdivision. Little do they know this is just the beginning of the horrors they'll find as the mystery unravels.
The blood didn’t just stop at the ground level either, and in fact went up the sides of several trees in the clearing. Much farther up in fact, so that the victim must have been off the ground when it was attacked.
“There’s so much of it,” Suzie whispered, hating how loud her voice sounded out here.
Fred’s voice was hushed as though he was thinking aloud. “It must have been pretty big to have had so much. But how did it get so high?"
This is a pretty dark YA piece that I've been working on for the past year. What can I say? My first novel needs a bunch of edits before I'll be comfortable testing the waters. I'm still on the fence as to whether it's too dark to be considered YA though. It's a blurry category, so I'm torn with it.
Be sure to drop by Six Sentence Sunday to check out what else has been posted today!
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Here's a snippet from my novel I'm working on rewrites for at the moment. Hoping to have it ready to start sending around in the next couple of months.
Setup: Suzie and Fred are a couple of kids who stumbled upon a very unusual scene in the woods of their subdivision. Little do they know this is just the beginning of the horrors they'll find as the mystery unravels.
The blood didn’t just stop at the ground level either, and in fact went up the sides of several trees in the clearing. Much farther up in fact, so that the victim must have been off the ground when it was attacked.
“There’s so much of it,” Suzie whispered, hating how loud her voice sounded out here.
Fred’s voice was hushed as though he was thinking aloud. “It must have been pretty big to have had so much. But how did it get so high?"
This is a pretty dark YA piece that I've been working on for the past year. What can I say? My first novel needs a bunch of edits before I'll be comfortable testing the waters. I'm still on the fence as to whether it's too dark to be considered YA though. It's a blurry category, so I'm torn with it.
Be sure to drop by Six Sentence Sunday to check out what else has been posted today!