Happy Halloween

Thank you to everyone who visited during the Haunted Open House Giveaway Blog Hop!

Congrats to Holly Letson! Watch your email for a $10 Starbucks e-gift certificate.

Have a safe and fun Halloween!

~Dawn Marie

Trick or Treat: Haunted Open House Giveaway Blog Hop

October 23-30 2013

 

Halloween is almost here. Yay!

I love all things fantasy and paranormal. Things that go bump in the night. Faeries and brownies. Vampires, shape shifters, and zombies. Oh, yeah!

In celebration of the season, I'm participating in the Haunted Open House Giveaway Blog Hop: hosted by paranormal author Nancy Gideon. So join us for a week-long Halloween party!

Hop along with us. Gift prizes along the way. I'm gifting a $10 Starbucks e-gift card to one lucky commenter.  Sound good? Read on down to the bottom of this post to learn how to get your name into the garden hat.

 

Shit. Late for work again.

The early morning California sun blinded. Sylvia slid into the cracked leather seat of her red MGB midget and her short black skirt rode up her thighs. With a sigh, she inserted the key into the ignition.

"Please start."

Click, click, click, click, click, vroom.

"Yes!"

She pulled out of the driveway and headed for the city.

With one hand on the wheel, she scratched the raised bite mark near the vein on her wrist and shuddered. That too familiar prickly sensation of eight tiny phantom legs crawled over her skin. Revulsion chills crept down her spine. She despised spiders.

Breathe, Sylvia. Breathe. She inhaled air deep into her lungs.

 

Entering the freeway, she zipped across the lanes to the left and sped with the traffic. Holy shit! Her worst nightmare crawled across the dashboard. She grabbed a used tissue from the passenger seat garbage pile and squashed the damn creepy crawly.

Her thigh itched like crazy. She swallowed hard and glanced down. A black widow skittered across her leg. Sylvia spun the wheel.

The crunch of metal was the final sound. She'd never be late for work again.

 

 

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Hope you liked that wee bit of Halloween flash fiction. Now for the giveaway...

 

Giveaway: $10 Starbucks e-gift certificate. Leave a comment on this post with the answer to two questions. 1) What is your favorite Halloween costume? 2) What  type of spider was in Sylvia's car? Be sure to include your email addy. Feeling shy? Email Dawn Marie at Dawn at DawnMarieHamilton dot com. Only comments answering both questions and including an email addy will be considered. One name will be pulled out of the garden hat on Halloween, Thursday October 31.

 

 

~Dawn Marie


Please check out the other participating blogs...

What's blooming in the Garden? - Fall Flowers and Fall Events

I just love this time of the year. The weather is perfect. Perfect for lovely fall flowers.
These lavender chrysanthemums grace our front entrance.

 

 

Who doesn't love the smiley face of a pansy?

 

 

 

 

Soft pink sedum attract small butterflies that make me smile, as does the events I'm attending later in the season.

 

 

 

 October and November bring some special events...

 

 

 

 

 

As a Halloween treat, I'm participating in the Haunted Open House Giveaway Blog Hop hosted by paranormal author Nancy Gideon from October 23-30. Be sure to stop by for my giveaway during the hop.

 

 



 

 

 

During the month of November, I'll be attending The Romance Reviews Year End Splash Party. Visit often to play cool games and have fun. Grand Prize: $100 Gift Card. Hope to see you there!

 

 

~Dawn Marie