The Foundations

By DeAnna Knippling

It took her husband's death in order to get the money to buy their first, brand-new house...

...and now it's haunted by someone Julie's never met.

Julie moves into her brand-new house in her brand-new housing development with mixed feelings.  It's a new start after her husband's death, with a new job and good schools for her two kids.  Then the lights flicker and go out, and a ghostly image appears in the basement.

It's a new house.  And it's not on some ancient burial ground.  

How is it even possible that the new house is haunted?
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wonderland Press
• Release date: Nov 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386210764

DeAnna Knippling

DeAnna Knippling is a freelance writer, editor, and book designer living in Colorado.  She started out as a farm girl in the middle of South Dakota, went to school in Vermillion, SD, then gravitated through Iowa to Colorado, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She now writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and mystery for adults under her own name; adventurous and weird fiction for middle-grade (8-12 year old) kids under the pseudonym De Kenyon; and various thriller and suspense fiction for her ghostwriting clients under various and non-disclosable names. Her latest book, Alice’s Adventures in Underland:  The Queen of Stilled Hearts, combines two of her favorite topics–zombies and Lewis Carroll. Her short fiction has appeared in Black Static, Penumbra, Crossed Genres, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and more. Her website and blog are at www.WonderlandPress.com.  You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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The Foundations

The Accident – April

Julie sat on the cement front step of the apartment building and smoked a cigarette. The wind gushed through the tall pine trees overhead. Across the street was a park, not the kind with kids and swings but the kind that you rode horses through, and inside of which dogs disappeared at night.

She wasn’t sure, after all, that she wanted to move. In six months the house was supposed to be done. A little crackerbox in a development on the edge of town, the kind of place where the trees are all still wrapped in strips of rabbit-proof plastic and the only restaurant is a pizza delivery place attached to the one gas station, and all you can see is house frames going up and open prairie. As far as the eye can see.

But she had two kids and a new job at the new hospital on that end of town and the school was supposed to be good.

A new start was supposed to be a good thing, wasn’t it?

She smoked the cigarette down to the butt and chucked it into the open-mouthed Folger’s can. If she was going to drive out to the site and see what she’d put her down payment on before the kids got out of school, she’d better go now. She hadn’t taken the day off work to screw around and watch daytime TV, after all.

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She had to go back to the car and dig out her sunglasses from the glove box, it was so bright. The sky had a few thin streaks of cloud across it, a couple of jet contrails too. If the jets were spraying chemicals over