Heeding the Signs
Mark Hersch enjoys a busy summer in his favorite place: with his grandparents in Hartstown, Virginia.
Working, saving for college, learning to drive. Getting to know his family and himself.
Then one job brings a shiver of warning.
Will Mark and his Papaw recognize the danger before it's too late?
A Voices through Time Story
Also available in the collection Stepping Out of Reality
An excerpt from The Perfect Shade of Haint Blue:
Learning to Heed Those Strange Warnings
Mark frowned, but a quick little thrill of excitement shot through his belly.
The change of pace and scenery was doing him a world of good, especially since he was considering coming right back to Virginia for college in a couple of years.
But he wouldn't mind a bit of mystery and adventure to spice things up.
"Did something strange happen there, Papaw? At the Hartsock place?"
"Well no, I can't exactly say that. It's just... I got an uneasy twinge about you going there is all."
Mark's father and everyone else in the family often talked about Papaw's twinges, and hunches, and notions, and even dreams. No one ever made much of a fuss about it that Mark could tell.
But they never mentioned thinking those twinges were something it was better to ignore, either.
Other books by Kari Kilgore
Kari Kilgore lives and works in her native mountains of Virginia. From that solid home base, she and her husband Jason Adams find adventures all over the world to bring to life in fiction. Exploring local legends and mythologies in particular delights and inspires them.
Kari writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and she’s happiest when she scares herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with Jason, two dogs, two cats, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about.
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