The Curse of Jenny Greenteeth
YA Thriller
92,000 words
PITCH: When Sophie’s little brother vanishes, a deathbed message sends her on a dark hunt where she finds ghost witch, Jenny Greenteeth and angers her. Now Sophie must unravel a curse that could cost her everything.
QUESTION: What type of Easter Egg would your MC be?
ANSWER: A deviled egg because I have a jealous ghost witch after me.
FIRST 300:
In
the wispy dark of a foggy night, the children come. The children die.
Jenny
Greenteeth croons to them, her keening call they cannot deny.
Chapter
1
October:
Gram was dying and it couldn’t
happen soon enough. Not that I didn’t love her and wish she could be with
us forever, but her frail body fought for each breath that it took. The oxygen
mask offered her so little relief that I didn’t
think it was worth strapping it to her face. No one wanted to watch their beloved
Gram die that way, drowning without a drop of water in sight.
Sam’s sobs drifted through Gram’s
closed bedroom door. Dad said that eight was way too young to take part in the
vigil, but we chose to keep her at home, so he knew what was happening. This
room would always be haunted by Gram’s final breaths and Sam’s
sobs.
Mom had long since stopped her own
crying. I think she was numb. She sat in a chair beside the bed and stared at
the blankets covering Gram’s
small frame. I wondered if, like me, she wanted this to be over. For Gram, her
own mom, to have some peace.
“She’ll finally be at rest,”
said
Dad. The scratch in his voice belied the stern set to his face.
Gram had been a constant in all our
lives. She’d lived with us longer than I had. We
made the move to the east coast last year just for her. She loved the sea and
wanted to return to her hometown.
“The waves have secrets,”
she
used to say when I’d go for walks with her along the
shore. That was before the stroke took away her ability to take walks. Or speak
anything other than mumbles and grunts.
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