Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: happy
  • Music: We're About 9, "Writing Again."

"The Atlantic Highway isn't a safe place for the dead..."

Rose Marshall has come a long, long way since she died in Buckley Township, Michigan, and now, with the stakes getting higher every time she turns around, she's finally doing what she's needed to do for a while. She's finally looking for help. Of course, on the ghostroads, even the help can harm you...

Issue 52 of The Edge of Propinquity is live, and with it, the fourth of the Sparrow Hill Road stories is available. "Building a Mystery" takes us deep into the ghostroads, and all the way along the back of the Old Atlantic Highway, where the routewitches may hold the key to Rose's past—and to her future. All she has to do is survive...and for the dead, that can prove to be surprisingly hard.

There are a lot of stories trapped and tangled in the twilight. This is only one of them. But it's the one I have to tell.

Give a girl a ride?

Tags: short fiction, sparrow hill road
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ladyqkat

April 15 2010, 21:33:35 UTC 7 years ago

Finally had a chance to read the last two stories as well as this one and I am still delighted with your style of writing. I would venture to guess that there were even ghosts like Rose on the Silk Road way back when.

I can't help but wonder about ghosts who haunt the rails, though. What would they do with a place like the Tehachaoi Loop?

Yes, my mind does wander along mysterious roads.

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2010, 22:12:50 UTC 7 years ago

They'd probably be delighted. Interesting things are good for ghosts.