Setup for this snippet with a recap from last week: Cecilia is overwhelmed from meeting her father, who just so happens to be a ghost. She did what any other person might do. She fled.
In this snippet she's had time to think about her hasty retreat.
"Ghosts aren't real," Cecilia said as she stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. In the light of day, she wondered if she had imagined the whole conversation she had with her father. "Ghosts aren't real," she said again, but it lacked conviction she needed to wholeheartedly believe that statement. She'd seen her father's ghost. Had talked to him. She frowned as she remembered her parting words to him last night. "People are trying to prove ghosts are real and you tell yours to get lost." Why in the world did she tell him to go away?
Once she dressed for the day in comfortable black slacks and a blouse, she placed a call to her mother's psychiatrist, and then she rang Fritz to tell him about her mother's episode last night.
I was asked if I had a book video for End of the Road. I didn't, so I put a teaser together this weekend. 🙂 Enjoy!
Blurb:
Lars Gunner, the frontman for Silent Plaids, died 23 years ago and his death was ruled an unfortunate accident. Despite the fact he can't recall what happened to him in his last moments of life, he is convinced he was murdered. He has been trapped in limbo until his daughter, Cecilia, unearths his journal and is able to see him. She seeks help from Kaleb, a psychic, but as they resurrect the past, the secrets and lies surrounding Lars' rock and roll life just may be the death of them too.
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I love the way she’s trying — and failing — to convince herself that it wasn’t real.
P.T.,
She’s really having a tough time.
Isn’t crazy how the light of day changes everything?? Great snippet, Karen!
I suspect this problem won’t go away in daylight.
Interesting reactions she’s having in the cold light of day. Enjoyed the snippet.
Too bad he never answered her question about how he happened to drive off the pier. He would have kept her attention.
She seems to be closer to accepting the fact that her father’s ghost is very much real. I wonder what the psychiatrist will say when they meet.
Carrie-Anne,
She’s getting closer to accepting it.