I’ll be in and out this weekend so I might be slow to comment. I’m trying to get some of the jewelry making I have waiting on me done. It’s insane the sheer amount of beads and crap I have so I’m going to a crafting party because I obviously need supervision in order for me to finish things.
I’m continuing with These Haunted Hills from Joshua’s point of view where we learn key things about Brendan I didn’t have in Brendan’s point of view (but explain why Brendan is so depressed). I’m ahead of myself with the picture. They’ll be heading here, the Ridges, the Athens Lunatic Asylum (the original name). It’s a beautiful, very haunted asylum that originally wanted to be a a nurturing place to help the mentally ill (but you can guess that’s not what ended up happening). It’s now the art gallery for Ohio University. There’s a crap ton on the hauntings online if you’re curious. I head over here often.
We’re picking up immediately after Joshua sees Brendan waiting on him to finish with the Girl Scouts at Ash Cave.
Now that Halloran was here, Joshua found he couldn’t close the distance between them. After several emails setting up times and places to go ghost hunting, Joshua had enough clues to suspect Brendan Halloran was B. A. Halloran, author of one of his favorite YA fantasy series. An unrepentant geek, he would be lying if he said that realization played no role in accepting this job. He had spent more hours drawing fan art of Kiyomi Fujita and John Archer than he wanted to think about, no regrets though.
However, knowing what Halloran had been through in the last few years made him nervous about meeting the man and even more nervous about why he wanted to go ghost hunting. Was it really for a new series or was he trying to contact little Christian. Joshua had no idea what losing a child would do to the soul, didn’t even want to imagine it.
If you’d like to play along, Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook community where we post up 6 sentences of one of our LGBT stories every Saturday. It’s been fun and you can find it here. Be sure to check out all the offers! It’s been a great supportive group!
Jana Denardo 
Oh, that’s a sad revelation. I don’t want to even imagine it, either. 😦
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Me either. This is probably the cruelest thing I’ve ever done to a character.
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Makes me want to know what happened to Christian.
Also, I love that he’s a fan, right down to drawing fan art.
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We’ll learn about Christian soon (think St. Jude’s)
Being a fan is going to make things a little awkward but yeah at least one of my characters is usually a geek.
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Oh dear, poor guy, no wonder he’s depressed. I like the haunted building picture.
This kind of reminds me of an old monastery I saw in Melk, in Austria, back in 1999. I don’t think it was supposed to be haunted, but in the 14th century or thereabouts the people there did a lot of study on the anti-Christ.
It was dusk, the building was dark, gloomy, had high walls around it, and a grassy walkway edged with very high dark trees. I started walking along the path and suddenly was convinced if I turned and looked behind me I’d see a monk in a brown habit with his hood up and no face visible. I ran as fast as I could back to the car without looking behind me. Eek!
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Yeah Brendan has his reasons to be bordering on suicidal.
That sounds like a fascinating place. Monastries are often rumored to be haunted so I wouldn’t be surprised.
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Intriguing and very sad. Poor Brendan. I hope this story gives him some closure.
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Thanks. That is the end game for him, to help him move on.
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Oh, that is heartbreaking. Losing a child is really, really hard no matter what the age.
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I can’t even imagine losing a child.
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Lovely Gothic tone…
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Thank you
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How sad, yet at the same time revealing his motivations with a personal sweetness.
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Thank you
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That was quite the whip in emotions. I was bubbly about the geeking out, then that last paragraph… wow.
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There are some definite gut kicks in this one.
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What a sad revelation. I love the photo. It’s a beautiful building.
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Thanks. It is definitely sad. The Ridges is a beautiful place (for such a sad place). That’s just the front lobby. It’s huge.
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