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The Crying Bridge
milissamcdaniel
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milissamcdaniel
Complete, First published Dec 13, 2016
Mature
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Del Granger moves from Chicago to a small rural Illinois town after a painful divorce. She meets a young man, Evan Drake, with who she shares an almost instant mutual attraction and begins to enjoy the promise of her new life. As she settles into her new home, however, she begins to hear the eerie sound of a crying baby late at night. Del soon discovers her property was the scene of a horrible tragedy years ago and becomes consumed with solving the mystery of the crying baby. As her romance grows, Evan also becomes involved in the quest for answers.

This  is an excerpt of a longer story, a novel in the making. The genre could be classified as both romance and paranormal or supernatural.
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Sam's Weird: Homecoming

4 parts Complete Mature

Sam's always known she was different. Her grandmother called it her gift. She called it her weird. She knew when bad things were going to happen before they did. She felt things that weren't there. She was visited by dead relatives in her dreams. But the creepiest part of it all was when she could see the ghosts. She spent the better part of her life blocking out the weird, and as a side effect, blocking off her feelings and ability to be close to people. Now she finds herself unable to keep her weird at bay. Her decision to move back home to help the people of the community she grew up in will have her facing more than just the things that go bump in the night. She will also have to face her own ghosts and her feelings toward the two unexpected men in her life. TW found in preface/author's note.

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