Tagline:
Sometimes the best things in life are the
things you never had.
Blurb:
For
five years Andy has been consumed by nothingness. Her life was fine—normal
even—and then suddenly it wasn’t. No one knows why, least of all her. Desperate
for answers, she seeks out yet another psychiatrist, not knowing that
psychotherapy has nothing to do with it, not when the problem is that you’re being
haunted.
Excerpt:
“Your dream bothering you again?”
he asked, knowingly.
Andy closed her eyes and held on
tighter.
He kissed her again. “It’s okay,”
he whispered into her hair. “I’m here.”
“It doesn’t matter,” she
breathed, shaking her head. “Nothing does.”
John pulled back to look into his
wife’s face. “Are you sure you’re okay—do we need to call your doctor?”
“The only doctor I have is an
ob-gyn, and I don’t think she’ll be able to do anything about this.”
John shrugged. “I don’t know,
maybe it’s a hormone thing.”
Andy raised her eyebrows. “Do you
really want to go there?”
“Hormones are powerful things,
Andy. They can make you do all sorts of weird shit.”
“Like dream your husband’s dead?”
There is was; she’d said it.
His face softened. “Is that it—is
that what happened?”
Andy looked past him to the sky
beyond. His hands cupped her face and brought her focus back to him. “I’m not
leaving you, ever. Even if I die, I promise to haunt you.”
Andy frowned. “Don’t say that.”
“What? It’s true. You can’t get
rid of me; face it.”
Andy shuddered; she didn’t know
why.
***
Melanie Schulz is planted in
upstate New York with her husband and three kids on a smallish plot of land she
likes to believe is a farm. She plays at being a writer, same as she plays at
being a farmer, and nurse, and overall enjoyer of this thing called life. One
of the things she enjoys most are people who delight in discussing all things
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