I’m still sharing from There Haunted Hills. I’d better get back to writing it! I’m struggling to write anything right now. I have a rough semester this time out and by the time I get home and do all the work I have to do, I’m too tired to write. Sigh.
This picture is jumping ahead a little to where Brendan will first meet Joshua. This is Ash cave in the Hocking Hills, near Logan, Ohio.
The snippet continues directly from when he got his coffee and has sat down on the futon to try and settle in (and it finally hints as to why he’s in this cabin in the woods, other than as a potential site to commit suicide in).
Flipping on the TV, he reassured himself there was actually a functioning satellite and ditto the wifi for the computer so there wouldn’t be some Overlook-The Shining isolation driven craziness going on. Brendan powered up his computer, wondering if he should remove the paperweight of a galaxy he had as a wallpaper. Kristen had shared her opinions on it the last time she had seen him, and they had been as negative as they had been loud. He pushed it from his mind. He checked his emails, let Kristen know he’d made it safety. He saw no emails from his agent, his best friend Jonathan nor the man who he’d hired to show him around to the haunted sites in the Hocking Hills and the surrounding towns.
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Jana Denardo 
Nice… can’t wait to meet his tour guide! 🙂
I hear you about not having the energy to write after the EDJ. Hopefully your next semester will be a little easier.
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I’m not sure about the next semester. I have a brand new class. Yikes.
Thanks. Joshua needs to start cooperating a little on the page.
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a lot going on there–intriguing 😀
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Thank you. The paperweight will become important later.
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Yep, I understand the frustrations of too much going on in the Real World to write.
Interesting hints there about his situation. Sounds like he’ll need someone to help get his mind off his troubles.
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I think a lot of us are with the state of the world.
Yes Brendan is definitely going to need help.
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All seems to be going well right now…I doubt things will continue to go smoothly.
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No, things will get rough.
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That’s tough – being too tired to write.
It sounds to me like Brendan’s still hoping for a foot up out of the hole he’s in.
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Brendan won’t admit it,but he is.
It is tough. I hate being this worn out.
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I hear ya on the too tired/stressed/etc to write.
And of course you never get emails from the people you want emails from. I think there’s a law about that…
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It’s frustrating.
There probably is a law. Thanks
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Nice, I can’t wait to read more of this. Love the picture too.
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Thanks. I do too. I need to visit Ash cave. It’s one of the few I haven’t been too yet.
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I can’t help but wonder whether you’ve just foreshadowed a future power/satellite outage?
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Thanks, actually more foreshadowing the unreliability of rural internet.
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Nice snippet. Love the picture too.
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Thank you!
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Ghost hunting? Putting something to rest? Family research? I like the way you left that for us to play with.
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Thanks. It’s a mix of reasons he’s ghost hunting.
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