Excerpt for Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day! By special request, I'm sharing an excerpt from my current novel project, Villain . This is my mom's favorite scene that I've written so far, and she asked me to post it today. Additionally, it's an appropriate post for today, since it centers around my MC and her mother-figure. **Note: Ika's Aunt Meira is NOT based on my own mother, nor any other female relative, and is purely fictional** Enjoy! Something’s wrong. Something’s wrong. Something’s wrong. The words loop themselves around inside my skull, twisting and turning and snaking through every thought like a streamer, winding them all together into an incomprehensible knot of worry. Something. Is. Wrong. The fear drives my feet faster, and my earbuds blare a numbing beat in my ears. It’s so much easier like that today, easier not to think when I let every note of the songs feel for me. I knew something wasn’t right when 2:30 came and went, and Aunt Meira wasn’t at th...