{"id":1766,"date":"2014-04-17T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2014-04-17T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:00:17","slug":"hood-and-fae-excerpt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2014\/04\/17\/hood-and-fae-excerpt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hood and Fae: Excerpt 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the next couple weeks I’ll be sharing additional excerpts from the novella\u00a0Hood & Fae<\/em>, the first of my new urban fantasy series\u00a0Daughters of Little Red Riding Hood. Hood & Fae<\/em> is currently available in the fantasy bundle\u00a0Faery Realms: Ten Magical Titles<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0Barnes and Noble<\/a>,\u00a0Kobo<\/a>,\u00a0Smashwords<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Google Play<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Hood<\/a><\/p>\n

Navigating the buses with my new picnic basket, loaded with five pies and a gun, nicely occupied my mind for a while. On the bus, though, I couldn\u2019t escape the fact that public transit serviced a lot more of the undead than I had ever noticed before.<\/p>\n

I saw a flickering zombie with a gaping chest wound, two softer ghost ladies rather frayed about the edges, a hooker who had demon horns and shiny red skin, and something naked, male, and gray that had a hard-on and the head of a squid. Ew.<\/p>\n

Those spirits had no bodies, so I noticed them first. The passengers looked different too, though I had to peer deeper, past the flesh suits, into their souls. Sometimes the souls mirrored the body; just as often, not. The lady across the aisle from me turned to watch me watching everyone else. Her soul had no color and her eyelids had been sewn shut.<\/p>\n

I shuddered. Did my soul look like that? Willfully blind?<\/p>\n

In the interest of science, experimenting, I took off the red leather jacket. The ghosts and the souls disappeared. The bus looked a lot emptier and a lot less freaky. But now that I had seen the other reality, it made me itch to sit there blindly. What if one of the spirits decided to creep up on me? What if another one thrust its claw into my chest? I\u2019d never know until I doubled over with a heart attack.<\/p>\n

I slipped the red jacket back on. I could see the ghosts now. One of the monsters turned and winked at me, leering. I sank into my seat. The world is a more crowded place when you see spirits, but surprisingly, it also makes a lot more sense.<\/p>\n

I put my hands in my pocket. The gun was packed inside the false bottom of my picnic basket, but there was something in the pocket. The little black business card.<\/p>\n

Domitian Drake, you sly scoundrel. This jacket is worth more than $100,000. I bet that line you fed me about it belonging to your momma was bullshit. It had to be. He\u2019d claimed my mother bought the jacket from his mother\u2019s estate sale, but I had noticed my grandmother wearing this jacket in the photo taken in the 1960s. I knew both my grandmother and my mother had worn special clothes while speaking to the dead, though I\u2019d never been allowed in the room during those sessions. Now I was 99% certain they\u2019d worn this jacket.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d always thought they were ashamed of how they fooled gullible people, and that was why they\u2019d never let me watch them conjure the dead. Now I realized they kept their work secret because it was honest-to-God necromancy, if that wasn\u2019t an oxymoron. The dead were scary bastards.\"Faery<\/a><\/p>\n

Hood & Fae<\/em>\u00a0is currently available in the fantasy bundle\u00a0Faery Realms: Ten Magical Titles<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0Barnes and Noble<\/a>,\u00a0Kobo<\/a>,\u00a0Smashwords<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Google Play<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

WARNING: <\/b>This novel is only appropriate for older teens and adults, because it contains #$%*&@ words. Spelled out for real, though. Even that one that starts with \u201cF.\u201d Yeah, it\u2019s in there, in a couple places. Also, \u201cdumbkof,\u201d but that\u2019s in another language, so it won\u2019t bother you.<\/p>\n

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Over the next couple weeks I’ll be sharing additional excerpts from the novella\u00a0Hood & Fae, the first of my new urban fantasy series\u00a0Daughters of Little Red Riding Hood. Hood & Fae is currently available in the fantasy bundle\u00a0Faery Realms: Ten Magical Titles\u00a0on\u00a0Amazon,\u00a0Barnes and Noble,\u00a0Kobo,\u00a0Smashwords\u00a0or\u00a0Google Play. Navigating the buses with my new picnic basket, loaded with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,549],"tags":[639,642,656,716,730],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daughters-of-little-red-riding-hood","category-urban-fantasy","tag-fairies","tag-fantasy","tag-hood-and-fae","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-ya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}