Gallivanting Ghosts!
by Kimberly Frost
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The main character of my Southern Witch series, Tammy Jo Trask, grew up in the frequent company of the ghost of her great-great grandmother’s twin sister, Edie. Here’s a snippet of an exchange between Tammy and Edie from early in Book 1, WOULD-BE WITCH:
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I stole a glance at Edie’s exquisite face. With porcelain skin and high cheekbones, she was prettier than a china doll. She wore her sleek black hair bobbed, either straight or waved, depending on her mood and her outfit. Her lips were painted a provocative cherry red today. Rumor had it that Edie had inspired men to diamonds…and suicide. It was generally accepted in my family that one of her jilted beaus had murdered her, but she never shared the details of the 1926 unsolved New York homicide of which she’d been the star.
“How are you?” I asked.
“I’m dead. How would you bed?”
I opened my mouth and closed it again. I had no idea. Was it hard being a ghost? Was it boring? She was very secretive about her life, er, afterlife.
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Edie is a complex character. Sometimes she’s so sarcastic that Tammy Jo wants to throttle her. Others she’s worried about Tammy and tries to help her, providing information and advice. I tend to like characters who aren’t black and white. Shades of gray have always been sexy. ;)
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Kimberly Frost is the national bestselling author of the humorous Southern Witch series, which currently includes Would-Be Witch, Barely Bewitched, and Halfway Hexed. After her first release, Kimberly won the 2010 PEARL Award for best new paranormal author. Her second series featured darker paranormal romantic suspense stories.
These "Etherlin" books launched in November 2011 with the novella, “First Light". It appeared in the multi-author Christmas anthology, Tied With a Bow, reaching the extended New York Times Bestseller List. The subsequent Etherlin novels included All That Bleeds, a featured Barnes & Noble “Must Read Romance”, and All That Falls, a Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence finalist.
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Before I was born, a ghost my mother arbitrarily named Catherine occupied a wooden rocking chair some nights. My young brothers thought this amazing and wonderful, but my parents were slower to accept the phenomenon as harmless. In her early dressy Industrial-Age peasant attire, she performed no action except propelling her chair forward and back, forward and back -- Until one day, Catherine did not appear again.
We actually had a family ghost living with us when our kids were small. My partner's maternal grandmother had live with the family until the day she died quietly in her rocking chair. Her presence was still felt when things that were left lying around would mysteriously be folded and put away. Mind you both her parents worked and her sister was a slob.
After our first child was born, gramma would be around watching over him, and soothing him at night so he would let us sleep. She finally left after the last child (we have four) became a teenager. Gramma Mary is still missed every day.
I used to go do formal paranormal investigations with a group of Air Force guys. It was all way more science based than actual excitement. LOL However, the creepest thing I ever encountered doing EVP recordings was not ghost sounding. It could be compared to an alien language. I was so freaking creeped out.
Being from south Louisiana, I do very much believe in ghost. I pretty much lived at my grandmaws house growing up and on different occasion we have dealt with a ghost in her house. Me and my cousin was playing in the girls room and maw maw had just lit a candle and she always left the door open to that room when we were in there. Well the door close and the room started filling up with white smoke and something start scratching down me and my cousin back n arms. We were screaming for mawmaw to open the door but she couldn't get in it open. When finally my uncle got it open they seen the smoke and the scratches on us. So my mawmaw called in a priest to come do a blessing on the house and we found out that there was two spirits present. A evil one and a good one. We later found out that the land my pawpaw built the house on use to be a grave yard and that the good spirit was the ghost of my anut that died in the house and figure the bad one was one for the grave yard. So the priest did a blessing and a cleaning and we never had trouble again.
Oh I love shades of grey characters! More realistic too. :)
As for ghostie stories. Yes, I do know someone who has had an experience. Yes, it is me.... :D 'nuff said. ;)
nope I've never seen a ghost thank goodness. I bet one of them could make me hurt myself.
I've only been visited by my dead grandparents in my dreams but there's always been a purpose, a message to get through to me and always for my dad, their son.