I’m busy trying to clean my apartment before heading to the parents for weeks (summer break). It is not going well.

Have a little more of These Haunted Hills Joshua and Brendan have arrived back at Brendan’s cabin and Josh remembered the foxes Brendan heard the night before. They’re out looking for signs of them (Josh is a fox researcher)

Joshua trekked off into the woods with Brendan trailing behind. They followed one of the paths for a while before Josh came to a stop. “We’re going to go off the path now. That way looks promising. Just watch your footing. Cell phones don’t work out here so good and I’d hate to have to carry you back.” Okay, he’d love to have his arms wrapped around Brendan but not in that way.

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I usually have a professional conference to go to over Memorial Day but I didn’t go this year. I couldn’t stay at home for the family party as I had doctor’s appointments and work stuff to do here in Ohio. So I went to the Feast of the Flowering Moon pow wow yesterday and I’ll probably go hiking in the Hocking Hills where These Haunted Hills is set. I should be cleaning house and writing but we’ll see how it goes (I’m having a bad sugar day and moving seems like too much effort).

Picking up with the next chapter, in Josh’s pov. They’ve just arrived back at Brendan’s cabin after the ghost hunting in the hotel

Josh followed Brendan to his cabin. He’d never been out to this group of resort cabins before but the area was sweet. He wouldn’t mind shacking up here for a while even if it was practically his back yard. Behaving himself was going to be a problem. Seeing Brendan excited and a little scared had stoked something inside Josh. He’d been afraid meeting his hero would go just like the saying warned. He’d have hated it if Brendan had turned out to be an entitled asshole but instead it broke Josh’s heart seeing Brendan so sad. Something changed today and he had a frightening, probably angry ghost to blame. Of course he’d nearly lost Brendan when things got exciting. He’d been sure the man would have bolted had he been able to get out the door. Truth be told, Josh might have joined him but he’d never let Brendan know that. He needed to play it cool, be the wise ghost hunter and not flee like Egon and company in the library scene.

This is what I’m imagining the hotel looks like if you add another wing to it.

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So it’s been raining for a week destroying two hiking trips and I’m pretty sure we’ll have to drag out the farm tractor to cut this grass. I’m in West Virginia at the moment cat sitting my brother’s clowder of cats while he and his wife are in some all inclusive resort. So far all the fur babies are fine but now that I’ve been here a week they’re used to me and are starting to act up. I had hoped to use the time to write but man it’s been slow going. (but I did have my SF novella picked up so that made for a happy week).

I’m still with These Haunted Hills. The boys are still talking beer.

“I do like beer, wine and whiskey too but I’m trying not to drink much, at least not alone.” Brendan rubbed his own arms, trying not to think hard on that. He had crawled into a bottle for a while after Connor died. He’d climbed out again quickly enough but he didn’t like to tempt fate much.

“I’m sorry. I should have thought of that.”

Joshua’s pained tone hit hard. “No, that’s fine. Don’t worry about it. I like that you don’t pussyfoot around me. Too many people do that since Connor died. I’d love to go to those microbreweries with you.”

And it’s been a while since I posted a picture and I think I might have shared one like this but here’s what Brendan’s cabin looks like.

If you’d like to stay, this is Hillside Cabin from the company Cabins by the Caves It’s one of the smaller cabins. It’s a lovely location with plenty of hiking to do (it’s about the one thing my area has going for it).

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