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I looked at your book, Pat. It looks good!
I've been negligent with my snippets. Here's a new one from WIDOW'S TALE.............
"We’ll check it out. First, let’s take a look and see what your old lighthouse is hiding."
The door was unlocked. Wary, Brett proceeded with the flashlight. He entered the cylindrical edifice, scaling the beam up a spiral staircase, past the network of cobwebs, into obscure shadows that tortured the soul with unlimited possibilities of danger. If one believed in ghosts, this place seemed like a potential breeding ground for them.
Brett flinched against the chain of echoes. Their footfalls resonated with chilling clarity while the waves that crashed below sounded as if they would tow the precarious structure off its moorings and out to sea.
"And this is where you would come to play?" He asked of the dark.
"It was beautiful then" Serena whispered. "So big—fascinating. An adventure."
"Yeah, yeah, I get the picture. Suddenly I’m not big on the adventure part."
Brett reached for Serena’s hand to ensure she was still right behind him. "How trustworthy are these stairs?"
"They supported me fifteen years ago."
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