Simply had more important events on her mind that night. Sorry.Įveryone knew the Middleton ball was the highlight of the season.ĭrusilla Nancington, certainly was not ignorant of that fact, but she This is first draft status so bear with me on any typos, repeated words, etc. I took the liberty of 'borrowing' my latest WIP's heroine and her setting for a flash fiction exercise Sunday night. In this first of the 19th Year Trilogy, Winn might know more about Mac than even she does, and that knowledge could end their lives, unless Mac ensures the powers-that-be have no choice but to keep him around. That is, until Winn Thomas, the biggest geek in her senior class figures out there’s more to what hides in the dark than most are willing to acknowledge. Once darkness descends, Mac can change into any supernatural form that exists - which makes her as happy as she can be. Like going to school with humans, interacting with humans, and pretending to be human during the pesky daylight hours. In exactly eight months, five days, three hours and thirteen minutes, Mac has to choose what she’ll be for the rest of her life. What eighteen year old Mac Thorne doesn’t know will probably kill her. It seems, perhaps, becoming a grim reaper isn’t just about the dead but more about a much needed shift in Quincy’s priorities-from who she thinks she wants to be to who she really is. Instead of maintaining her coveted popularity status, Quincy’s goes down like the Titanic. Like when she’s reassuring her friends she wants nothing to do with former best friend Ben Moorland, who’s returned from god-knows-where, and fails. It doesn’t take long for Quincy to realize the only way out of the game is to play along especially since Death can find her anyway, anywhere, anytime.

She’s supposed to enjoy her sophomore year, not learn about some freaky future Destiny says she has no choice but to fulfill. There's no way sixteen year old Quincy Amarante will become the fifth grim reaper.

Crux by Julie Reece