Okay, the time has come to treat you guys to a little sample of my latest Zoe Flynn adventure. Enjoy!
Chapter One
Lucy wandered through the twilight world of dreams when something corrupt shifted in the darkness. She opened her eyes and looked around in confusion. The room was very dark, almost pitch black, but her eyes were able to make out the familiar shapes of her bedroom in the gloom. Something had awakened her. Glancing at the clock on her night table she saw that it was three in the morning. An exhausted sigh escaped her lips. Rolling on to her elbow she reached for the glass of water that she always kept beside her clock when she slept. A strange sound came through the darkness.
“Who’s there?” Lucy spoke aloud, her voice seeming terribly loud in the nighttime stillness of her room. She realized now that it had been that same noise which had roused her from sleep. It had been a kind of clicking, scratching sound. Like a dog’s claws might make as it walked across a hardwood floor. But she didn’t have a dog, or hardwood floors.
She swallowed against the lump that had formed in her throat and strained to listen in the darkness over the hammering of her heart. Leaning over she flipped the switch on the bedside lamp. Nothing happened. For a moment she sat there stupidly, staring at the lamp in the darkness. Then she flipped the switch back and forth several more times, each click of the toggle sounding more frantic and ominous.
“Okay, Lucy,” she said out loud to herself. “Don’t panic. It’s probably just a blown bulb.” Her voice sounded tremulous and unconvincing, even to herself. She climbed slowly out of bed, the plush carpet soft beneath her bare feet. “Just walk across the room and turn on the light.” She always talked to herself when she got nervous, or frightened. Both of those emotions tore through her at this moment like wild horses......
More to come later~!
January 31, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Wild horses, eh
awesome piece.
January 31, 2011 at 4:36 PM
Thanks, Anna! I enjoy your blog as well!