Waking Up Dead by Margo Bond Collins
Waking Up Dead
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Blurb:
When Dallas resident
Callie Taylor died young, she expected to go to Heaven, or maybe Hell. Instead,
she met her fate early thanks to a creep with a knife and a mommy complex. Now
she's witnessed another murder, and she's not about to let this one go. She's
determined to help solve it before an innocent man goes to prison. And to
answer the biggest question of all: why the hell did she wake up in Alabama?
Excerpt
“Hey,”
I said, hurrying after the woman. “Wait up.”
“I know you’re not talking to me,” she
said. She stared straight ahead and pushed her cart down the middle of the
aisle toward housewares.
“I am talking to you. Look. I know this
is really weird, but I need your help.”
“Well, I’m not talking to you. I don’t
know what your problem is, but you can take it somewhere else.”
I wanted to reach out and grab her
cart, to make her stop and talk to me, but of course I couldn’t. Which gave me
an idea.
I scurried out in front of her,
planting myself in her path.
“Move,” she said.
“Not until you hear me out. Please?”
She moved her cart to the left. I
stepped out to intercept her. She moved to the right. So did I.
“You got some kind of death wish or
something?” she asked.
I laughed and shook my head. “If only
you knew.”
“I’ve got no time for this,” she said.
And she slammed into me with her shopping cart.
At least, that’s what she planned to
do.
The shopping cart, however, slid right
through me. When it stopped, the basket had sliced cleanly through my
midsection. The bottom rack merged with my ankles.
From my perspective, it looked like two perfectly solid objects--me and the
shopping cart--had melted together. I don’t
know what she saw.
Whatever it was, it wasn’t good.
The woman’s eyes widened, then rolled
up into her head as she slumped to the ground in a dead
faint.
I bent down to try to wake her up, but
no matter how hard I concentrated on making contact, I couldn’t even touch her.
I hate being a ghost.
Author’s Bio: Margo Bond Collins lives in Texas with her husband, their daughter, several
spoiled cats, and a ridiculous turtle. She teaches college-level English
courses online, though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys reading
urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free
time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and other
monsters. Waking Up Dead is her first
published novel. Her second novel, Legally
Undead, is an urban fantasy, forthcoming in 2014 from World Weaver Press.
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