{"id":1789,"date":"2014-04-29T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2014-04-29T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:00:36","slug":"hood-and-fae-excerpt-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2014\/04\/29\/hood-and-fae-excerpt-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Hood and Fae: Excerpt 7"},"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

Cormac waved at me and we both hid behind something I thought was a big boulder, but upon postmortem discovered was the wreck of a station wagon. Skeletons sat sideways inside. Not sure what killed them, as they had their seatbelts on. Granted, garroted around their necks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I know what echelon we\u2019re in,\u201d I whispered, \u201cWr\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWreyth,\u201d Cormac said with me.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know goblins.\u201d Not a lot of affection there. \u201cDo you have a gun?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight here.\u201d I showed him the Spirit Gun.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat won\u2019t work,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an exorcist gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what, it only works in a gym?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt only works on ghosts or spirits possessing bodies not their own. It won\u2019t kill a human, unless he\u2019s a werewolf or a vampire. It won\u2019t kill a goblin who is in his own echelon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have a gun?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSeriously? I like guns a lot better than punching. They don\u2019t hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure guns hurt people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI meant they don\u2019t hurt my knuckles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cormac snorted. \u201cGoblins love guns too. Unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was right. Every single one of the goblins was packing heat. They had some impressive pieces too. Pistols, shotguns, submachine guns, machine guns, grenade launchers, flamethrowers\u2026.Sheesh.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess we both better weapon up. Think our friends will mind?\u201d<\/p>\n

He gestured to the skeletons. They were not only armed, but the rusty trunk, which Cormac broke open, contained dozens more guns and packs of ammo, and even a nest of grenades. We each grabbed two guns. I packed as many more guns and ammo into the picnic basket as would fit. I wasn\u2019t sure how stable those grenades were, so I almost left them. At the last minute, I plucked two and squirreled them away with the other weapons.<\/p>\n

\u201cCormac?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCan we die here?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes. And if we die here, we regenerate here\u2014but not as humans. As goblins. We won\u2019t be just dead; we\u2019ll be damned too. So try not to get killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Awesome. I felt a lot better now.<\/p>\n

 <\/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. Cormac waved at me and we both hid behind something […]<\/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":[642,656,716,730],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daughters-of-little-red-riding-hood","category-urban-fantasy","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\/1789","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=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/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=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}