Fe clapped her hands over her ears. Her dusky green eyes were squeezed shut as she folded up on herself.
            “What’s wrong?” Othello asked softly, reaching out and touching her leg.
            The young woman jumped, glancing up at him with her hands still on her ears. “I hear it again…” she whispered back.
            “Hear what ( Read more... )

Title: Jack-o-Lantern
Other: This is the prologue for a series I plan on writing that is a collecting of ghost stories and stuff like that. The first part (which this is a prologue to) consists of a combination of the Jack-o-lantern and the Will-o-the-whisp stories. It was fun to write; the beginning was in a style I don't use (I was actually trying ( Read more... )