It Happened on Thunder Road
YA romance with magical realistic elements
95,000 words
PITCH:
Moving to Nowheresville sucks...until 17 yo Emmy falls for two brothers. But when one is killed, possessing the other, life gets freaky. Now Emmy must exorcise the reckless spirit or risk losing them both.
QUESTION: What type of Easter Egg would your MC be?
ANSWER: It’s a secret, but I’ll give you a hint: candy, chocolate, malt.
FIRST 300:
Sunshine stood in the crowd just beyond the airport terminal.
Even after four years I couldn’t miss her. No one could miss my mother. She was
wearing her skirt of many colors as I called it—a skirt she made years ago out
of old bandanas. It sagged toward the floor like a tattered battle flag, which
had clearly seen better days, the longer pieces grazing the tops of her ankles.
And, if the skirt wasn’t weird enough, she had flowers in her hair. Literally.
Her eyes widened, and she threw her hands in the air, waving
frantically. “Over here.”
Everyone turned to look at her.
I ducked my head and took my time getting to her because my
legs were shaking. If Dad cared about me
even a smidgen, he’d have insisted I fly in a Boeing 747 rather than a rickety
old puddle-jumper. But no, all he thought about was getting to his new
engineering job in Iraq. I was just another part of the preparations.
Sunshine didn’t wait, but ran to me with open arms. “Emerald, look
how much you’ve grown.”
No one had called me Emerald since middle school. I changed my
name to Emmy when Sunshine left. It sounded more normal. I patted her back once
and dropped my arm.
“What kind of hug is that?” she asked, squeezing me tighter.
“Stop it, Sun…Mom. You’re cutting off my air supply.” Was she
deluded enough to think after deserting me things would be the same?
“I’m sorry. I’ve missed you so much. How have you been, baby?
How was your flight?"
I focused on a kid and woman racing to the gate to greet a man
with a briefcase. A real family. The kind I wanted to have.
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