Catatonic
By Liz Schulte
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Young woman are falling asleep, but never waking up. When bounty hunter, Femi, is asked to look into the case, she’ll do something she never thought she’d do: risk her own life to save a bunch of humans.
Liz Schulte
Many authors claim to have known their calling from a young age. Liz Schulte, however, didn't always want to be an author. In fact, she had no clue. Liz wanted to be a veterinarian, then she wanted to be a lawyer, then she wanted to be a criminal profiler. In a valiant effort to keep from becoming Walter Mitty, Liz put pen to paper and began writing her first novel. It was at that moment she realized this is what she was meant to do. As a scribe she could be all of those things and so much more.When Liz isn’t writing or on social networks she is inflicting movie quotes and trivia on people, reading, traveling, and hanging out with friends and family. Liz is a Midwest girl through and through, though she would be perfectly happy never having to shovel her driveway again. She has a love for all things spooky, supernatural, and snarky. Her favorite authors range from Edgar Allen Poe to Joseph Heller to Jane Austen to Jim Butcher and everything in between.
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Catatonic - Liz Schulte
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
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Chapter 1
This is disgusting.
I flung the stringy innards toward the bowl. And it smells.
Olivia’s laugh carried in the brisk fall air. It’s a pumpkin. Not a dead body,
she said, helping her daughter Charlie scoop out her own pumpkin. Aunt Femi is silly, isn’t she?
Charlie giggled as she nodded.
The body would be better.
I scraped the flat spoon deeper into the pumpkin. Why exactly are we doing this? What’s the pumpkin supposed to do?
It lights up!
Charlie said, then looked to Olivia to make sure that was right. This is my first Halloween,
she said proudly.
My heart squeezed a little. Given everything this kid had been through in her early life, she deserved every ounce of happiness she could find now. I couldn’t think of two better people than Olivia and Holden to keep her safe.
"You nailed it, Charlie. We’ll carve a face in the pumpkin, light a candle inside it, then put it on the porch. It’s fun."
I scrunched my nose. When did carving vegetables become fun? If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times: humans are weird.
I’m going to be a cat woman for Halloween,
Charlie announced. Want to see my costume?
I leaned forward. You bet I do.
She grinned and ran into the house.
Wash your hands,
Olivia yelled behind her. She’s obsessed with Batman right now.
She watched the door for a couple moments, looking really happy. Then she smiled a little to herself and turned back to me. Are you working a case at the moment?
Nope. Nothing interesting has come up, but usually around Halloween things get a bit crazy.
I might have something unusual.
Olivia raised her eyebrows. Interested?
Always. What’s up?
I set my mucky seed-scooping spoon on the table.
A flicker of doubt shot across Olivia’s face and she concentrated harder on carving the jagged mouth Charlie had drawn on her pumpkin. I probably shouldn’t say anything. I’m not supposed to be involved.
It wasn’t like Olivia to toss out a lead only to reel it back in. So that meant whatever this was probably had to do with her job as a reaper. Though she was trying, the whole neutrality thing didn’t