The only residents remaining in the small town of Miners Hill are spirits.
According to the tour guide, that is. Tina has spotted a fox’s tail disappearing into an alleyway, several cats stalking animals too small to make out and many, many birds.
What madness made her book this tour? She has no interest in mining. And it’s not like she isn’t haunted enough as it stands. The farther she runs, the more she thinks about what she has left behind. If anything, the memory is growing stronger.
Tina doesn’t expect to find any ghosts here other than those she’s carrying everywhere. She might as well save her severance pay and go home.
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The Salvage Series has MFtS to thank for its existence. Took me a while, but I’ve managed to work this week’s photo and first sentence into the story, as well.
I’ve fallen way behind on the comments front again – my apologies. I hope I’ll get round to it within the next couple of days.
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Nicely done, and I do want to read more! Thank you Sonya for the contribution and I hope that you return next time! Be well… ^..^
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Thank you, Barbara! Fun as usual 🙂
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Thanks!
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I am curious as to what she is running from. Interesting start to a story.
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Thank you!
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This is excellent! Works very well as a stand alone too. Loved how her surroundings helped her decide her better course of action. Excellent Sonya!
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Thank you, PJ! I’m glad it works on its own, I don’t want to force anyone to read the entire series to understand what’s going on.
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I understand. There are so many continuations going on it is hard to try and re-read all of them in order to keep up.
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Nicely done Sonya, works well….
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Glad to hear it – thank you!
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I love the line “Tina doesn’t expect to find any ghosts here other than those she’s carrying everywhere”. That says everything about her state of mind.
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Thank you! Glad you liked that line 🙂
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Very nice Sonya…hope she gets rid of ghosts from the past..
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Thank you 🙂
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Ghosts that she carries everywhere…that was a great touch! Nicely done.
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Thank you! Glad you liked that line 🙂
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You’ve created a really interesting series here, Sonya. 🙂 I feel sorry for poor Tina. I hope she manages to exorcise her ghosts in the near future. Great story.
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Thank you, Louise! It sort of turned itself into a series, so I decided to run with it. Glad you like it 🙂
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I didn’t realise it is part of a series so it obviously works very well as a stand-alone piece as well. Well done.
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Thank you, Sally!
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Yes, indeed! We are what our mind (and our memories) is!
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Yes, exactly… Thanks for reading!
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We all carry ghosts, which you illustrated so well. Nice!
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Thank you 🙂
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