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Sycophant
by Meagan J. Meehan
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Alban Lake Publishing LLC
Dawn Daniels has always been aware of the dark force within her; a possession that is both the bane of her life and her fierce protector, Dawn must find a way to accept her reality and embrace her destiny.
Excerpts:
Excerpt 1:
I
knew there was something seriously wrong with me before anybody else even
suspected it. At first, the signs were scarce—vague, as educated folks would
say—but by the time I was seven I’d seen the pattern and figured that all the
dark stuff in life was my doing. Not on purpose, mind you, I didn’t ever harm
nobody on purpose until I was well into my twenties, but I’ve been a one-woman
wrecking ball since I was a baby. It wasn’t my fault; it was my momma’s will for
her baby girl.
Excerpt 2:
When
I was little, everything seemed okay because no one noticed the pattern for
years. My life with gramma was stable and loving and pleasant. We were happy,
so while we registered the misfortunes that continuously took place all around
us, we suspected nothing—hell, for all I know, gramma never did. But I wised up
right quick.
It started out slowly,
unassumingly. First, my gramma's friends started dying off. Heart attacks,
strokes, aneurysms; some were fatal and others were merely damaging, but all
were very sudden and severe. Granted, most of my gramma’s friends were around
her age or older and most people chalked it up to midlife health issues; such
things are to be expected, especially in poor coal country. But then Lena
Harker—the mailman's wife—took ill with cancer and wasted away before
everybody's eyes. She was barely thirty. Chris, the aforementioned mailman, was
never the same after that; he quit his job and spent the last years of his life
drinking himself to death. Two weeks later, gramma’s neighbor’s—a jolly couple
called the Parkers—three-year-old granddaughter tripped down the front porch
steps and snapped her neck; she was dead before she hit the ground. Two months
later, her mother—the Parkers’ only child—drowned herself. Some said it was an
accident, others speculated suicide. Either way, grief was the
culprit. The Parkers were never jolly again.
All throughout my
formative years friends, neighbors, and acquaintances had illnesses, had
accidents, went broke, went crazy, went missing—oddly, no one thought any of it
was strange. It seemed to be just a series of sad happenings over the courses
of several lives. That was possible, reasonable even. After all, I was just a
baby back then. Who would have connected the dots and realized that all the
blighted individuals had been in my direct vicinity right before disaster
struck?
Meagan J. Meehan is a published author, poet, cartoonist, and produced playwright. She pens columns for the Great South Bay Magazine, Blasting News, KidskinthaBlog, and Entertainment Vine. She is also a stop-motion animator and an award-winning abstract artist. Meagan holds a Bachelors in English Literature, a Masters in Communication, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Educational Psychology. She is an animal advocate and a fledgling toy, game, and shoe designer.
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I love Meagan's work
ReplyDeleteCover looks really good!
ReplyDeleteI like the cover. It is very well done with great graphics.
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It reminds me of Rocky Horror Picture Show for some reason.
ReplyDeleteHi Everyone,
ReplyDeleteThis is author Meagan J. Meehan--I'm so glad you all liked the cover! An artist named Jason Dube did it for me exactly as I imagined it! He's an amazing artist and has his own company, Scattered Comics.
If you're interested in hearing more of my horror work, the incredible Chilling Tales for Dark Nights has gotten their incredibly talented audio narrators to perform many of my tales on YouTube. You can see/hear them here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=meagan+j+meehan+chilling+tales
And whoever said this reminds them of "Rocky Horror Picture Show," you've made my day! That movie is outrageously awesome, lol.
I like the cover. It's interesting enough to where I would flip the book over and see what it's about.
ReplyDeleteThe cover is awesome! Very intriguing!
ReplyDeleteI love the cover!It really makes me want to read the book!
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting cover and I do like it.
ReplyDeleteI love the cover, has the perfect mysterious appearance! no19034770@yahooDOTcom
ReplyDeleteI think the cover is really cool!
ReplyDeleteI love the cover,it makes me wonder what's lurking in the smoke.
ReplyDeletescary book cover , and the book sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe book cover is intriguing. It makes me want to read the book.
ReplyDeletei would like to read this, i like the cover.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of a cover from the '70's. Maybe Cream?
ReplyDeleteI really like the cover of the book. It reminds me of something, but I'm not sure exactly what. Something fun though...maybe Rocky Horror. it would make me stop and pick it up for sure
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