Stone in Love
By Jon Jacks
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In early Hollywood, its most sordid stories were played out off screen. And if anyone ended up in court...well, they were actors. Actors the studios had invested huge sums in. Sums they didn’t want wasted. Even when one of their own is murdered. Then the victim is sacrificed; even portrayed as the monster. I need to set the false stories to rest. Especially the ones being told thousands of years ago
Jon Jacks
While working in London as, first, an advertising Creative Director (the title in the U.S. is wildly different; the role involves both creating and overseeing all the creative work in an agency, meaning you’re second only to the Chairman/President) and then a screenwriter for Hollywood and TV, I moved out to an incredibly ancient house in the countryside.On the day we moved out, my then three-year-old daughter (my son was yet to be born) was entranced by the new house, but also upset that we had left behind all that was familiar to her.So, very quickly, my wife Julie and I laid out rugs and comfortable chairs around the huge fireplace so that it looked and felt more like our London home. We then left my daughter quietly reading a book while we went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat.Around fifteen minutes later, my daughter came into the kitchen, saying that she felt much better now ‘after talking to the boy’.‘Boy?’ we asked. ‘What boy?’‘The little boy; he’s been talking to me on the sofa while you were in here.’We rushed into the room, looking around.There wasn’t any boy there of course.‘There isn’t any little boy here,’ we said.‘Of course,’ my daughter replied. ‘He told me he wasn’t alive anymore. He lived here a long time ago.’A child’s wild imagination?Well, that’s what we thought at the time; but there were other strange things, other strange presences (but not really frightening ones) that happened over the years that made me think otherwise.And so I began to write the kind of stories that, well, are just a little unbelievable.
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Stone in Love - Jon Jacks
Stone in Love
Jon Jacks
Other New Adult and Children’s books by Jon Jacks
The Caught – The Rules – Chapter One – The Changes – Sleeping Ugly
The Barking Detective Agency – The Healing – The Lost Fairy Tale
A Horse for a Kingdom – Charity – The Most Beautiful Things (Now includes The Last Train)
The Dream Swallowers – Nyx; Granddaughter of the Night – Jonah and the Alligator
Glastonbury Sirens – Dr Jekyll’s Maid – The 500-Year Circus – The Desire: Class of 666
P – The Endless Game – DoriaN A – Wyrd Girl – The Wicker Slippers – Gorgesque
Heartache High (Vol I) – Heartache High: The Primer (Vol II) – Heartache High: The Wakening (Vol III)
Miss Terry Charm, Merry Kris Mouse & The Silver Egg – The Last Angel – Eve of the Serpent
Seecrets – The Cull – Dragonsapien – The Boy in White Linen – Porcelain Princess – Freaking Freak
Died Blondes – Queen of all the Knowing World – The Truth About Fairies – Lowlife
Elm of False Dreams – God of the 4th Sun – A Guide for Young Wytches – Lady of the Wasteland
The Wendygo House – Americarnie Trash – An Incomparable Pearl – We Three Queens – Cygnet Czarinas
Memesis – April Queen, May Fool – Sick Teen – Thrice Born – Self-Assembled Girl – Love Poison No. 13
Whatever happened to Cinderella’s Slipper? – AmeriChristmas – The Vitch’s Kat in Hollywoodland
Blood of Angels, Wings of Men – Patchwork Quest – The World Turns on A Card – Palace of Lace
The Wailing Ships – The Bad Samaritan – The 13th Month – The Silvered Mare – SpinDell
Swan Moon – The Unicorndoll – Lesser Nefertiti – My Shrieking Skin – The Fairy Paintbox
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Chapter 1
Her first screen appearance, in the aptly named Paradise Garden, remains uncredited, like those of so many other aspiring starlets.
Yet even in this minor role, her beauty shone out through the darkness of the movie theatre, silvery rays that touched everyone – ironically heralding the stardom that would increasingly make her ever more untouchable for those such as myself.
Ridiculous, poetic – maybe even mythical – whimsy?
What other language, though, should be used when you consider how it all abruptly came to an end for her in Room 1219?
No one really knows what went on in there and yet – despite Virginia being the victim – she was the one who would gradually be painted by defence lawyers and the media as a monster.
I think she has suffered too much for too long.
It’s time her tale was more truthfully told.
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Chapter 2
‘We’ll manage somehow, Gran; we have to!’
Were these the exact words spoken by the eleven year old Virginia