Saturday, October 12, 2013

Eight Sentence Sunday #5

Hello, all!

It is once again time for WeWriWa, a blog hop that occurs on weekends in order to encourage authors to expose themselves to others' works, as well as not to slack on the weekends and get some damn writing done!

This week's eight comes once again The Haunted Lingerie. We're going to skip forward a bit to Misty's first night alone in possession of the cursed garment. She was just taking a bath when a strange shadow fell over her, but upon surfacing from the tub, she found that no one was there.

We'll pick up during the aftermath of that eerie phenomenon now.

... She waited, holding her breath until her vision blurred and bathwater began to overflow onto the tile floor. She turned the faucet off and listened. She didn't hear anything. 
But there was a smell. 
She sniffed despite herself. It was sweet – sickly so, with a sharp acridity that followed. She raised her hand to her mouth to fight the urge to gag and closed her eyes, trying to remember why it seemed familiar, where she had smelled it before. 
As soon as her eyelids shut, she remembered: her father’s body had smelled just like that after he had died. ...
I hope you've enjoyed my eight sentences this week. If you've enjoyed this snippet, you can take a look at my other works on AmazonBarnes & Noble, and Smashwords. You can also access my Amazon author page by clicking on the cover art image above.

Hope you're having a great weekend, and that it only gets better from here!

21 comments:

  1. Nicely done #8 - certainly a tense scene - and I'm not sure I want to know what happens next. Well done.

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    1. Thank you very much! Misty isn't sure she wants to know, either.

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  2. Very nice, good tension, definitely drew me in and I shuddered at the last line you posted.

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    1. Excellent! Thank you so much for stopping by.

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  3. Ew, bummer. Not a good smell for relaxing in the tub! This snippet has me wondering what's gonna happen next!

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    1. Creeeepy things. Just how far will the lingerie go to catch her attention?

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  4. Oh yikes, what the heck kind of aromatherapy awaits her?! Nice job. :)

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    1. Haha, aromatherapy! If only Misty were so lucky. ;)

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  5. OMG! Gross, but beautifully written!

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    1. Thank you very much! That's very kind of you. :)

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  6. That's got her all turned around! Super creepy, great job. I think you had a lot of fun writing this story.

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    1. Oh, yes. I can't wait until it's done! I've always loved horror. Combining it with sex and romance just seems like so much fun!

      Good to see you again. :)

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  7. Ooh, grim and intense! Can't wait for more (I think...strokes the pretty lingerie...) Excellent excerpt!

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    1. Thank you very much! Sounds like you and Misty have fallen under the same spell. :P

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  8. yikes. not the smell I want to catch in my bath

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    1. Not in mine, either! Thank you for stopping by. :)

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  9. Great 8, Nora! Funny how certain aromas can bring back memories...even of the bad variety. Well done!

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  10. Not a great thing to remember. Eek. Great 8

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  11. Interesting. Now I'm wondering what the imagery of her dad's death on the same night she first the lingerie has to do with each other. Odd coincidence? I'm curious to find out!
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  12. Bath in the evening can be scary. I wonder what is going on with the shadow and especially why it reminds her of her father.

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