by Angie Fox
We walked out into the sunshine. It was a new day, a new era. At last, we could see people stirring in camp. Soldiers and clerks, doctors and nurses had made it onto the paths. Voices murmured behind tent flaps. Life went on.
Marc and I made our way to the swamp like excited kids.
We burst into my place, where Rodger now had TIE fighters strung from our laundry line.
He pointed a finger at me. “The decals are drying.”
“I don’t care,” I said with a flourish. “I’m moving out.”
Rodger’s face lit up for a second before it fell. He recovered quickly. “I’m glad for you,” he said.
My roommate set down a large rock he’d been inspecting and went to shake Marc’s hand.
“What’s that?” I asked.
“Titurate,” he said proudly. “The largest piece I’ve ever seen. And I just found it sitting outside the showers this morning. Can you believe it? My rock-club buddies are going to go nuts!”
“Nice sample,” Marc said, walking over to inspect it. It was as clear as a raw diamond and about the size of a basketball. He bent over it, running a finger over a sharp edge. “It’s hard to believe this can vanish to powder.”
“You just have to hit the right frequency,” I said, repeating what Rodger had told me. “It’s like eeeee,” I added, trying to hit a good pitch.
“No,” Rodger said over me. “It’s more like eeeee-yeee.” He hit an octave higher. We sounded like idiots, singing to the rock. I had a feeling Marc was about to tell us that when—crack—the rock exploded to dust.
I gasped. “It worked!”
Fine powder rained down over us. Marc looked like he’d been hit with a sack of flour.
Rodger’s mouth hung open. “My rock!” he said, pointing to the dust on the floor, on Marc, in the air, on a stack of formerly red T-shirts. “That was my titurate!”
“Tough break, buddy,” Marc said.
I felt bad for him. I really did. “The least we can do is help you clean up,” I said, wishing we had a broom, opting to open a few windows instead. It could just blow out, right?
“Just know you’re getting quite a housekeeper,” Rodger said, brushing off his stack of shirts.
“We’ll hire a maid,” Marc said, gathering me into his arms, getting dust all over me. What the hey? I was covered anyway. He nuzzled my cheek and whispered into my ear, “I’m going to keep you way too busy to clean.”
My body tingled just thinking about it.
“I think I hear my rock club calling,” Rodger said as he banged out of the tent.
We barely heard him.
I ran a hand over Marc’s cheek, his jaw. I found the jagged scar at his neck. “I can’t believe I have you back.”
“Forever, if you want me, Petra.”
He lowered his lips to mine, so familiar, so warm. So right.
Forever sounded good to me.
Note from Angie Fox:
Can I just say how much I love you guys? These Monster MASH books got me through some pretty crazy 2020 moments and the fact that you are ready and willing to escape the real world with me means more than I can possibly express. I mean, do we really have to go back? Don’t answer that.
I’m also happy to report that the third and final book in this trilogy, Werewolves of London, releases on February 23, 2021. And it contains one of my favorite scenes ever—Medusa’s baby shower. I’ll say this for Medusa: she is truly her own woman. We’ll leave it at that.
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P.S. You might have seen in the bookstore blurb that a different version of this book was originally published in 2013. I wrote that version for a publisher who was wonderful to me, yet had a different vision of who I am as a writer and what the book should be. This re-written, re-titled, re-covered book in your hands represents how I always wanted it to be. So thank you for supporting that and believing in me. You are the reason I am able to write books from the heart.
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THE MONSTER MASH TRILOGY
The Monster MASH
The Transylvania Twist
Werewolves of London
THE SOUTHERN GHOST HUNTER SERIES
Southern Spirits
The Skeleton in the Closet
The Haunted Heist
Deader Homes & Gardens
Sweet Tea and Spirits
Murder on the Sugarland Express
Pecan Pies and Dead Guys
The Mint Julep Murders
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Southern Bred and Dead
The Haunted Homecoming
THE ACCIDENTAL DEMON SLAYER SERIES
The Accidental Demon Slayer
The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers
A Tale of Two Demon Slayers
The Last of the Demon Slayers
My Big Fat Demon Slayer Wedding
Beverly Hills Demon Slayer
Night of the Living Demon Slayer
What To Expect When Your Demon Slayer is Expecting
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS:
A Little Night Magic: A collection of Southern Ghost Hunter and Accidental Demon Slayer short stories
About the Author
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Angie Fox writes sweet, fun, action-packed stories. Her characters are clever and fearless, but in real life, Angie is afraid of basements, bees, and going up stairs when it's dark behind her. Let’s face it: Angie wouldn’t last five minutes in one of her books.
Angie earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri. During that time, she also skipped class for an entire week so she could read Anne Rice's vampire series straight through. Angie has always loved books and is shocked, honored and tickled pink that she now gets to write books for a living. Although, she did skip writing for a week this past summer so she could read Molly Harper’s Half Moon Hollow series straight through.
Angie makes her home in St. Louis, Missouri with a football-addicted husband, two kids, and Moxie the dog.
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THE TRANSYLVANIA TWIST
ISBN: 978-1-939661-77-7