by Angel Lawson
“Stop that,” she says, as she arches into my mouth. “Or we’ll never make it to the island.”
“Island?”
“We’re halfway to the beach so I figured, why not? Catch up with the others? Julian and Faye are already ahead of us.” She climbs down from me, but I don’t let her go. “We have so much to tell you. Julian’s been researching the craziest stuff and Faye found a runestone that has herbal recipes—the house smells awful—and I’ve been dreaming, but different dreams. Interesting dreams.”
“The beach? Sand and sky and ocean?” No walls, no fences, and a girl. This girl. Sounds like heaven.
“Plus, Sonja’s giving us flying lessons.”
“Flying?”
“Look.” Cherry’s grin is scarlet red. She touches my face, one fingertip lingering on my lower lip. I look, and am caught in her memory, a dizzying spiral of distance and sky and wind and freedom, awkward and tilting, sideways, too far, and the avian shriek turns to a girl’s scream as she tumbles and crashes into water, emerging naked from the waves, spewing salt water and laughter. “Flying.”
Oh, hell, yes.
Angel Lawson lives with her family in Atlanta and has a lifelong obsession with creating fiction from reality, either with paint or words. On a typical day you can find her writing, reading, plotting her escape from the zombie apocalypse and trying to get the glitter out from under her nails. She's the author of the YA Wraith series, FanGirl, Serial Summer and the Urban Fantasy Vigilant. You can contact her at www.angellawson.com, or find her on Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads.
ALSO BY ANGEL LAWSON:
Wraith 1
Wraith 2 – Shadow Bound
FanGirl
Serial Summer
Vigilant
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Kira A. Gold is a professional costume designer and amateur quilter who writes strange fiction when not holding fabric or a Shakespeare script. She lives in Kentucky with her very patient husband and too many cats. Look for her debut solo NA novel coming out this spring. She occasionally blogs at www.kiraagold.wordpress.com