Weekend Writing Warriors ~ Stutter Creek

Weekend Writing Warriors ~ #8Sunday

Here are the next 8 sentences in my upcoming romantic thriller, Stutter Creek.  It is slated for release on June 1, 2013 from 5 Prince Publishing.

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Following her father’s death and the collapse of her marriage, Beth retreats to the family cabin at Stutter Creek where she stumbles across the path of a serial 

killer.

In last week's entry, a girl named Mandy saw a small boy beside the road.  When she stopped her car and rolled down the window to check on him, a man yanked open the car door, leapt across the seat, and slapped a strip of duct tape across her mouth.  Then his hands slid down to her throat and began to squeeze.  Here's what happened next:

As her world began to grow dark, Mandy recalled how as a small girl she had worried about running out of air, because if you couldn’t see something, how did you know it was there? 

She had begged her mom to buy several packages of colorful balloons which she had blown up and stored in her bedroom. 

Unfortunately, her older sister, Kami, couldn’t let a good thing like that go unnoticed.

 She had waited until Mandy was out, then she’d tied all the balloons together and attached them to the stop sign on the corner. 
 Mandy had felt so humiliated when she came home, she’d wanted to get them down and put them back in her room, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it. She would have let herself run out of air before giving her sister that satisfaction.

The balloon bouquet had wilted quickly in the hot New Mexico sun.

Now, Mandy's last coherent thought—as the fireworks behind her eyelids exploded in the grand finale—was of those wilting, multicolored balloons.

Afterthought: 

I hope you enjoyed today's awful snippet.  Poor Mandy.  She was number one on the killer's list. Who will be next?  I will continue to post the next 8 until the book is released on June 1st.  Be sure to check out the other authors at the main Website: wewriwa.com