A. Medlin

H i folks! Please enjoy this excerpt from my newest short story ✨️ if you'd like to read an even longer excerpt, click here ✨️✨️ CW: religion, Catholicism, demons, the bible . . . . . It was raining the Sunday we came back to church. I trailed up the glossy, wet marble steps that led to the multi-doored entrance, my parents walking just ahead of me with their heads bowed as we ushered past other churchgoers who had also arrived. On the ride over, I’d been expecting laughter, music to be playing from the organ upstairs as people took their seats and greeted one another after nearly five months away. But I was met by a wall of silent parishioners, each curled into their heavy raincoats as something dark and dim now coiled within the high rafters of the church. We went through the motions, kneeling, singing, repeating “Amen” and mouthing through I confess. The psalms felt hollow and no one looked at one another the entire mass. But more than anything else, I watched the sunken cheekb...

 Hi folks! I'll be submitting a short story I have named The Tower to my writing group's Halloween anthology very soon! It is a paranormal fantasy novella at ~10k words. While I get the story ready for publication in October, I wanted to share an excerpt from the story to see what you all think! Let me know in the comments of wherever you're reading this <3 CW: talk of demons, talk of angels, ghosts, the supernatural, paranormal phenomena, the occult . . . . . The next morning, I woke up knowing I needed answers. I immediately hoisted my laptop from my desk next to the bed to my lap and started reading over that article about repeated tarot cards again. Most of the information was garbage, just blurbs about deeper meanings, shadow work, and higher beings sending messages. But it was that last part that caught my attention. I clicked on the post, which apparently had been buried pretty close to the bottom of the page, and read on. According to author XoXoGhostie , repeat...