Sycophant by Meagan J. Meehan Book Tour and Giveaway :)
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.
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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