Once Upon a Scream by Vera Strange EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Vera Strange
- Language: English
- Genre: Children’s Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural
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ONCE UPON
A SCREAM
“No… .get off me!”
Once upon a scream, Dawn woke in a panic. She struggled in her bed,
trying to tear off the roses pricking her skin and strangling her.
“Please, let me go!”
She sat upright and gasped for air. She glanced down, but the only thing
wrapped around her body was the rosebud printed quilt.
No roses were choking her with their perfume. No thorns were stabbing
her flesh. And no vines were wrapped around her body, dragging her down
into the dirt and threatening to bury her alive.
It was all a terrible nightmare.
Even so, it took Dawn a moment to fully wake up. Remnants of deep
sleep kept her brain in a spell.
The nightmare was so vivid that it held her in its terrifying grip. But
there was more to it. Dawn rubbed her tired eyes, taking in her
surroundings. Morning sunlight slanted through the white shutters, hitting
the quilt on the bed in a crisscross pattern, reminding her of a jail cell.
Antique furniture took up the rest of the space, including an old wooden
writing desk with a hutch, a stiff velvet-backed chair, an old-fashioned
wardrobe with mirrored doors, and a canopy bed draped with yellowing
lace that might have once been white. But Dawn couldn’t be sure.
She blinked in confusion at the unfamiliar surroundings as she fully
awakened, still feeling adrenaline making her heart pound. It took her a
moment to remember where she was. Then, she frowned as her memories
tumbled back.
Dawn wasn’t in the big city anymore.
She was in the country, living with her two aunts. In fact, she had been
in Castletown for three days already. And they felt like the longest days of
her life. That was why she kept having this same nightmare every night.
Her parents had sent her away as a punishment.
The incident surfaced in her mind, even though she usually tried to
forget it. Back home, Dawn had got caught shoplifting from the corner store
with her two best friends.
Well, technically speaking. . .Dawn hadn’t stolen anything.
But she was there when Ronnie palmed a lipstick, and Daniella stuffed
the nail polish into her purse. And Dawn didn’t try to stop them either, even
though her heart was racing and she knew that it was wrong. They’d done a
few things to break the rules before, like skipping class and sneaking off
campus to get ice cream. But this was different.
They were breaking real laws this time.
The security guard busted them on the way out and called their parents.
Even though Dawn argued that she didn’t technically shoplift anything, her
parents saw it differently. And the store security footage looked pretty bad,
Dawn had to admit.
“But being there makes you an accessory to a crime,” her mother said.
She was a junkie for those procedural cop shows on late-night cable.
“Those girls are big trouble,” her father added. “I always knew it. I tried
to warn you, but you wouldn’t listen to us. You said we were being
overprotective and controlling.”
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