The Girl in the Stones

By Sherry D. Ramsey

The stones uncovered by a young couple in the back garden of their new home seem harmless, even useful--until the nightmares start. Now they must look to the past for answers before a malevolent entity drives them away...or worse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sherry D. Ramsey
• Release date: Oct 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781775260806

Sherry D. Ramsey

Sherry D. Ramsey is a speculative fiction writer, editor, publisher, creativity addict and self-confessed internet geek. When she's not writing, she makes jewelry, gardens, hones her creative procrastination skills on social media, and consumes far more coffee and chocolate than is likely good for her.Her debut novel, One's Aspect to the Sun, was published by Tyche Books in late 2013 and was awarded the Book Publishers of Alberta "Book of the Year" Award for Speculative Fiction. The sequel, Dark Beneath the Moon, is due out from Tyche in 2015. Her other books include To Unimagined Shores—Collected Stories. With her partners at Third Person Press (http://www.thirdpersonpress.com), she has co-edited five anthologies of regional short fiction to date. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies in North America and beyond. Every November she disappears into the strange realm of National Novel Writing Month and emerges gasping at the end, clutching something resembling a novel.A member of the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia Writer’s Council, Sherry is also a past Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer of SF Canada, Canada's national association for Speculative Fiction Professionals.You can visit Sherry online www.sherrydramsey.com, find her on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter @sdramsey.

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The Girl in the Stones

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Sherry D. Ramsey

Copyright © Sherry D. Ramsey 2017

First published in 2017

Cover Artwork © Sherry D. Ramsey 2018

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, entities or settings, in unintentional, coincidental, and entirely attributable to the vagaries of the multiverse and fluctuations in the space-time continuum.

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Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

The Girl in the Stones

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-7752608-0-6

This story originally appeared in Where Evil Dwells: The Nova Scotia Anthology of Horror, 2017, edited by Vernon Oickle, published by MacIntyre Purcell, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The first stone dislodges reluctantly, with a spray of crumbly dark loam and the petrichor scent of damp earth. I'd stumbled over its angled corner poking out of a tangle of long grasses beneath a clutch of paper birch trees, but its straight lines and sharp corners identify it as no mere rough stone. Intrigued, I pull on my gloves and drag away the creeping grass, then angle my trowel into the earth next to it. After a moment I go for my long-handled gardening shovel. This thing is big.

Five minutes later I've unearthed a five-sided polyhedral block stamped D.S.C.C. on one angled face and Quartzite 6 on another. Dominion Steel and Coal Company is my educated guess. It's a little bigger than a shoebox, and it