“I’m afraid,” my voice is tender with my fears and shame.
“What is there to be afraid of?” Her smile continues, earning my trust to confide with her.
“The monsters,” I whisper it, knowing the secret shame the words hide.
“There are no more monsters, Margaret. There will never be any more monsters here. Just us. Just your friends. Forever.” I smile at her words and the relief it causes deep inside me.
With a skip, I rush to join my friends in our new world. A world where we are surrounded by friendships and laughter. Laughter that will now echo off of pastel teal and purple empty halls that will soon decay with the lack of life another world has now.
Swings will swing as if by a breeze but it will be us. Tiny footsteps will roam the shadows in games of tag and hide and seek and it will be us. Nursery rhymes will be chanted with the clacking of a rope on the cold floor, and it will be us.
Doors will open, laughter will be heard, and it will always be us, safe in a world of our making. Horrors will wait for those that come now, but not for us. We are free. We have escaped. We were never the monsters. We were just children and children we will forever now be.
About the Author
Marie F Crow weaves her stories around the human element of the horror verses the ‘monsters’ themselves. She believes that the real horror of life does not come from the expected, but from the unexpected responses of the human nature and what depths of trauma a person must survive in certain situations. She began writing The Risen series when feeling that the popular genre was slipping too deep into the realm of pure ‘slasher’ and forgetting what the horror of zombies can mean for a story.
Now, with her children's series launched, Marie hopes to use her favorite ‘monster’ as a teaching tool to inspire children to understand that not everything that looks scary, is scary. With Abigail and Her Pet Zombie series, Marie hopes to further spread her love for all things "that go bump in the night" with small children showing them that it's okay to be different and to embrace those same differences in those around them.
Social Media Links
Facebook: @MarieFCrow.Author
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Twitter: @MarieFCrow
Additional titles by Marie F Crow:
The Risen Series
Dawning
Margaret
Remnants
Courage
Defiance
The Siren Series
Betrayal of the Crown
The Abigail and her Pet Zombie Series
Abigail and her Pet Zombie
Zoo Day
Spring
Summer
Halloween
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
About the Author
About the Publisher