I have so much to do this weekend but I’m unwell. Sigh. So I’ll just jump right into this. Here’s more from These Haunted Hills

Last time Brendan and Josh were just about to go into the abandoned murder hotel when Josh jokingly tells Brendan that he’s going to leave him to the ghosts for killing off his favorite character in his book. It’s a little long this week to sort of finish out the though and because I’m sick and I’m making myself happy….

“Shadow me. You’ll do fine.” Josh handed him a small gaussmeter. “This is the EMF reader. If the lights start to spike across the reader, let me know. There’s no electricity in this place any more so if you get a reading that might mean we’re not alone.”

“It’s a worst case scenario but a real concern when you’re exploring abandoned buildings. Just keep your wits around you.”

(this is what it would look like around the hotel)

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What am I working on this weekend? Putting back half my apartment now that the plumbers are done but not the computer room because it has a 3X1 foot hole carved into the wall letting the winter wind come up the pipes. That and still floating around the house because my Vampires in Vegas novel was accepted for publication.

Oh and writing more of These Haunted Hills, a SF novella for the Lost open call with Nine Star Press and writing anatomy exams (insert wicked witch laugh here).

Last time Brendan and Josh were just about to go into the abandoned murder hotel when Brendan asked how much trouble would he be in and Josh said it depended on how mad he still was that Brendan killed off his favorite character in Brendan’s popular YA series.

“I’m so screwed,” Brendan laughed.

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An upfront warning: I’ll probably be slow commenting this week. My new landlord decided to replumb the whole apartment complex which I knew and spent the last week moving things from the kitchen and bathroom cabinets and the contents of the 2 utilities closets into the computer room. Last night they called me and said oh by the way we need in the bedroom (i.e. the computer room) to bust through the wall into the bathroom to make a utility panel) and we’ll be there 8 am monday. So now I have a weekend to move everything including furniture so I can’t go to either the winter hike/frozen festival or the woman’s march. I’m most unpleased.

But on to the snippet. I’m continuing with These Haunted Hills (one day this WIP will get a blurb). Josh (ghost hunter) and Brendan (popular author) have driven up to the haunted hotel in the last couple of snippets. I skipped over the description of the hotel. All we need to know here is that it was built in the 1900’s (maybe 1910) and was a couple stories high and is now very much falling down. Josh is telling Brendan the history of the hotel.

Anyhow she had this built with secret rooms and trap doors and others were outfitted like gas chambers. How she convinced her husband of the need, no one knows. It might be possible he shared in her desire to kill. At first it was mostly maids and handymen who went missing, most of them orphans or runaways from the city who were grateful for the job and had no one to come looking for them once they disappeared.

Joshua turned to him, his bright blue eyes dancing. “I guess that boils down to how mad I still am about you killing off John’s best friend.”

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I’m ice and snowed in for the three-day weekend so here’s hoping I get some writing done!

I’m continuing with These Haunted Hills. Last time, on the way to the haunted hotel, Brendan asked Josh if he’d ever been attacked by a ghost given the history.”

“It happens. Usually you get hit, shoved or scratched. I expect it to happen at the hotel.” Joshua shrugged.

“I’ve just started. I’ve been doing more character creation exercises for my protagonists. Researching the hotel is up next. I know there were murders taking place there.”

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I’m struggling to get everything ready for classes on Monday but I think I’m trying to catch something because I’m completely exhausted. I can’t believe the spring semester is already starting. Here’s hoping it’s better than my last.

I’m continuing with These Haunted Hills. Last week Josh has driven Brendan out to the site of the haunted murder hotel (I’m thinking a smaller scale version of H.H. Holmes’s murder castle.).

“Nothing about this is safe. Though, the building is in remarkable shape for being abandoned. It has a slate roof and they’re usually good for a century. If a roof is intact, a building can stay in decent shape. I do suggest if you feel any sponginess to any of the floorboards, tread lightly if at all.”

Brendan tore his gaze away from the tree branches swatting the vehicle to stare at Joshua who beamed brighter than the sun. “Have you ever honestly been attacked by a ghost?”

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