by Ninie Hammon
She looked from Sam to Malachi and back to Sam.
“Is it us, the three of us?” Sam’s husky voice was barely a whisper.
“We played hide and seek in the woods, ‘made it want.’” Charlie said the words as she thought them, as her mind made the connections. “That’s what the Witch of Gideon said, and she warned us not to come back here ‘all three’ of us.”
“You said it that first morning,” Malachi said. “The morning after J-Day, you pointed out that this is the first time all three of us have been back in Nowhere County at the same time since graduation.”
He shook his head, spoke the next words in wonder.
“Now we know the answer to ‘why now?’”
Sam still backed up from it. “We don’t know—”
“Yes, we do. It’s been waiting for the three of us to be here together so—”
Charlie found herself backing up, too. “You really think—?”
“And you don’t?” Malachi’s voice had a hard edge. He looked from one to the other of them. “We can’t keep dancing around the edges of this. We have to own it. The Jabberwock is about us.” He pointed at Charlie. “You.” Then at Sam. “You.” And tapped his own chest. “And me.”
“The Jabberwock has imprisoned Nowhere County …” Charlie didn’t have the air to finish, so Sam did it for her.
“… because it wants to play with us.”
THE END
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About the Author
Ninie Hammon (rhymes with shiny, not skinny) grew up in Muleshoe, Texas, got a BA in English and theatre from Texas Tech University and snagged a job as a newspaper reporter. She didn't know a thing about journalism, but her editor said if she could write he could teach her the rest of it and if she couldn't write the rest of it didn't matter. She hung in there for a 25-year career as a journalist. As soon as she figured out that making up the facts was a whole lot more fun than reporting them, she turned to fiction and never looked back.
Ninie now writes suspense--every flavor except pistachio: psychological suspense, inspirational suspense, suspense thrillers, paranormal suspense, suspense mysteries.
In every book she keeps this promise to her Loyal Reader: "I will tell you a story in a distinctive voice you'll always recognize, about people as ordinary as you are--people who have been slammed by something they didn’t sign on for, and now they must fight for their lives. Then smack in the middle of their everyday worlds, those people encounter the unexplainable--and it's always the game-changer."
Also By Ninie Hammon
Nowhere, USA
The Jabberwock
Mad Dog
Trapped
The Hanging Judge
Through The Canvas Series
Black Water
Red Web
Gold Promise
Blue Tears
The Unexplainable Collection
Five Days in May
Black Sunshine
The Based on True Stories Collection
Home Grown
Sudan
When Butterflies Cry
The Knowing Series
The Knowing
The Deceiving
The Reckoning
The Fault
Stand-alone Psychological Thrillers
The Memory Closet
The Last Safe Place
Nonfiction/Memoir
Typin’ ‘Bout My Generation
