Bad House Spirit

By DeAnna Knippling

The house was creepy. No getting around that. Windows covered on the inside with tinfoil so nobody could look in. And barred on the outside so nobody could get out. KEEP OUT and BEWARE OF DOGS signs everywhere. Pictures on the walls that seem like eyes are watching her from between the trees. Everything's brown and yellow, hasn't been updated since the Seventies…and a bad smell, too…

You never know what you're going to get, cleaning houses for a living. Carrie goes where her company sends her. But in this case, her curiosity might just put her in the wrong place at the wrong time…in front of the wrong ghost.

A short tale of haunted houses and tortured souls...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wonderland Press
• Release date: Aug 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781386248002

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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Bad House Spirit

My family didn’t come from medicine men or anyone like that. But I always leave a taste out on a napkin for the spirits anyways. I always went to the dances, too, when I lived back at home. You have to let your negative emotions rise like smoke. And I always carry a pack of cigarettes, just in case.

I cleaned houses when I was young. Right after college. I had an Art degree that didn’t mean for shit, but it was four years of room and board for free. After that I had to do something, and I didn’t want to go back to Pine Ridge. There ain’t nothing there.

The houses were mostly all right. The spirits would be like they were anyplace else: some good, some bad, and some just bored and looking to stir up trouble. You leave them a splash of Coke and some white-bread baloney sandwich on a napkin, they give you all the