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Category:
Action/Thriller
Type: Fiction
Pages: 13
Copyright: 2016
ISBN-13: 9781507174197
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
A thrilling tale about two sisters, one alive and one deceased. And a scary doll.
Mum and Dad thought long and hard about whether we should go on holiday this year. And they deliberated even harder about whether we should return to the same campsite again. All the memories... But now that nearly a year has passed since that fateful day, they decided that life must go on. That it was time to carry on from where we had left off last autumn. I am trying to think happy thoughts, but the churning in my stomach will not subside. I am thinking about all the things I used to do with my little sister. And all the things that we were still going to do, but now will never get the chance to.
Excerpt
THIS SUMMER
Going on holiday was always one of my favourite times of the year but now that has all changed.
I am staring at the artificial stars glowing on the ceiling. I can’t sleep. My stomach is churning. This is of course not the first time that I have lain awake the night before a vacation. But all the other times, it was happy excitement that kept me awake. The prospects of setting off in the middle of the night; of sitting in the car, watching the sun come up; of seeing the white-topped mountains rising out of the horizon; of the small balls of Scotch eggs that mother carefully unpacks and passes to the back...
To the back, where I will be sitting alone now, during the entire journey to the South of France. I feel another warm tear gliding down my cheek. With a sigh, I turn to my other side. I know that I shouldn’t be looking at the alarm clock, but I do it anyway. The green numbers are glowing in the dark, like cat’s eyes.
01.34.
Mum and Dad thought long and hard about whether we should go on holiday this year. And they deliberated even harder about whether we should return to the same campsite again. All the memories... But now that nearly a year has passed since that fateful day, they decided that life must go on. That it was time to carry on from where we had left off last autumn. They asked my opinion, and I said that I would love to go back to the riverside campsite, where we had spent such a lovely time last summer.
I am trying to think happy thoughts, but the churning in my stomach will not subside. I am thinking about all the things I used to do with my little sister. And all the things that we were still going to do, but now will never get the chance to.
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