{"id":1785,"date":"2014-04-24T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2014-04-24T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:00:07","slug":"hood-and-fae-excerpt-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2014\/04\/24\/hood-and-fae-excerpt-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Hood and Fae: Excerpt 6"},"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

All around, the once beautiful forest had been transformed, as if it had been ravaged by a forest fire then turned into a dump yard. The Douglas firs were blackened skeletons, surrounded by tattered skirts of plastic grunge. Trash blew everywhere: empty bags of chips, crumpled spit wads of aluminum foil, newspaper (really? who even reads those anymore?) plastic bottles, glass bottles, beer cans, whole subdivisions of cigarette butts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s like all the delinquents of all the high schools in the country snuck to this very spot to have a smoke,\u201d I marveled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do you think the trees are all burned? A lot of pyromaniacs end up in echelons like this. But not a lot of firefighters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere\u2019s Bryn?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. She can\u2019t be far, but we don\u2019t dare rush. This may the juvie hall of Hell, but it\u2019s still a dangerous place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it\u2026 did we really go anywhere? Everything looks the same, but warped.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery echelon is like a mirror earth. A funhouse mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut some are less fun than others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know which one we\u2019re in yet, but I can tell it\u2019s one of the Ghoulie earths. If it were an echelon of Hades, it would be much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ghoulie: the opposite of Faerie. \u201cBut it\u2019s still part of Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah. So watch your back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCan Bryn see all this without a Talisman?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe can now. She\u2019s here in her human body, same as we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

We heard a scream.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say we found her,\u201d Cormac remarked.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. All around, the once beautiful forest had been transformed, as […]<\/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-1785","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\/1785","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=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/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=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}