Andrew raised an eyebrow. “Anyway, like I said, brilliant molding throughout the hotel. Have you seen-”
“No need. It’s just what we’re looking for.” The man interrupted.
“I’m curious, what are you planning to do here?” He asked them.
“My great-grandmother often used to stay here. It was a place she’d uhm… get-away. We never really knew what she did here.”
“Really? So you came to dig up a few skeletons, see if there were any ghosts in her closet?” Andrew joked. The family looked pale, but as they realized it was just a metaphor, they chuckled nervously.
“How soon can we gain ownership of the property?” The father asked. Andrew glanced at his watch.
“Och, the office closes at 6… it’s five forty-five, now. Yikes, if I really push it, I can bring over the paperwork Monday morning, first thing.”
“Goooood. We’re early-risers.” His smile was ominous.
Inspired by
They used to call it a “Million-Dollar hotel” back when it was popular. They said the only way to get a room was if you paid …
A sequel to I Think We Found It
About the author
Laine P. Grey
At a charming little cattle farm, near a pretty deadly lake
I got my copy of Breaking Dawn at 12:04 AM, Saturday, August 2, 2008! Oh yeah, number 15.
I am now officially in the League of Awesomeness as The Sarcastic Scribe
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like life, particularly a good one, which is well worth staying up all night to finish. —Lemony Snicket
Start of Billy Joel song Series
http://ficlets.com/stories/36126
Start of Leningrad
http://ficlets.com/stories/37014
This summer I am reading, writing, counting days, and allowing the cat to steal my shrimp. Feel free to join in.
Most of my Ficlets are inspired by books, Billy Joel, or Jack Johnson songs.
So, if you’ve read Adverbs by Daniel Handler, then you know that each chapter is titled with a different adverb, and contains the same character names although, each story is essentially separate. The characters often repeat a phrase in another story or they mention a character that was in the previous story. That is what I’m going to do with the “Goode Callen” story, but mine will be titled with verbs. It starts with my entry in a challenge: http://ficlets.com/stories/39031
If you haven’t already, you simply must see I’m Reed Fish, In America, and Bon Voyage.
“I was born in ‘49, a Cold War kid in McCarthy times. Stop ‘em at the 38th parallel, blow those yellow reds to hell. Cold War kids were hard to kill under their desks in an air raid drill. Haven’t they heard we’ve won the war, what do they keep on fighting for?”—“Leningrad”, Billy Joel (Part of the Billy Joel Posse with T. F. Torrey, pens&feathers, and BARomero.)
Published on August 05, 2007.
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