#WeWriWa Excerpt from Stevie-girl and the Phantom Student

Hey, Everyone, 
Welcome back to another excerpt from my Phantom series. This time it's from the 2nd book in the series, Stevie-girl and the Phantom Student.  I'm giving you the foreword because I think it explains a lot about the time period and the set up.  The only thing it doesn't mention is the phantom student herself!  
NEXT WEEK, JULY 9TH - 13TH, the first book in the series, Stevie-girl and the Phantom Pilot, will be FREE on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/crr5kry

 Below is the foreword from Book Two, which serves as my excerpt today.  It is in Stevie's POV and yes, Victoria, there really is Creative Punctuation:
  Stevie-girl and the Phantom Student

©Ann Swann

Book Two of

The Phantom Series

            This book is dedicated to all those students who walk the halls like phantoms, hoping their differences truly are invisible.

  

             To us, 1970 was a time of beginnings, but to the country, it was a time of endings. National Guardsmen ended the lives of four students at Kent State College; one hundred thousand marched on Washington to end the war in Vietnam; and in England, Paul McCartney announced the end of The Beatles.  It was also the year Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both ended their lives through drug overdoses.  It felt as if the whole world was in turmoil.

            Our homeroom teacher said not to let the weight of the world stop us from being open to new experiences.  In fact, she said it was more important than ever that we should be open-minded.  I wondered if she’d gone radical on us; for a moment, I thought she might pick up a sign and start chanting.

            Come to find out, she was simply prepping us for a new addition to our class at Crossroads Junior High; his name was Derol Pavey and he had something called Tourette syndrome. 

Okay, folks, that's all from me, today.  But hop on over to the Weekend Writing Warrior's Website  http://www.wewriwa.com and catch up with a bunch of awesome authors~and don't forget to pick up your Kindle Copy of Stevie-girl and the Phantom Pilot starting July 9-13 FREE!  

#8 Sentences from STUTTER CREEK #WeWriWa

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Hi, Folks,
Here is another 8 Sentence Snippet from STUTTER CREEK.  It will be out  in two more weeks.  In this snippet, Beth has arrived at the cabin, which is where she first met her first crush, John Stockton.

            Beth was so glad to finally be at the cabin.  It brought back so many great memories, especially the memory of John, a huge young bear of a man.  He had been wandering close to their cabin when her dad had spied him and called him over.  His hair was dark blond hair and his eyes were the color of seawater.

            Thinking of those eyes now made her recall the protective way he would “spot” her every time she was about to do something daring, like swinging from the ancient knotted rope out over the lake.  She hadn’t even known it was there, but when he showed it to her, she’d clambered up onto the giant boulder to reach it before he could test it first.

            Remembering the way he’d stood, arms crossed over his bare chest, waiting for her to let go or return to the bank—poised to leap in and pull her out if necessary—those were the memories that had brought her back each and every year until she’d met and married Sam.

            Beth rubbed her arms and put away the past.  

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