Courtney Dead End: Paranormal Park Novels & Stories

“She told me her mother had been missing for days. We started searching together… and then we found her here.” I swallowed hard, my eyes drifting briefly to the lifeless body on the ground. “She was already dead.” Karen frowned, his brows pulling together as he tried to make sense of everything. The confusion on his face mirrored my own. “Then what happened to Cynthia?” he asked, his gaze shifting to where she lay. “Why is she like this?” “I…,” I stammered quietly. “But Cynthia… she’s not human.” He looked at me sharply, his expression tightening.

“I don’t think they’d do that without letting us know.” Eidolon Festivals were tricky, and Cadence was all for getting rid of them altogether. Her friend Drew Peterson had been killed at one, and that’s how she’d gotten dragged into this other world herself. Giving Vampires free reign for one night, so long as no one got hurt against their will, when it was so hard to distinguish what was against a person’s will under the circumstances, seemed like a very bad idea to her. “I’ll see if Cass can find that out, too.” “All right. I think that’s all for now. I have heard a few rumors that we might have an RV park of our own to investigate soon enough, down near Butler, but I need some more inform

Dad's hair turned gray overnight, and Mom lost her mind. They sold the villa and lived in that dark basement, spending their days guarding my portrait in the filth. And every year on my birthday, two aged figures would always appear at the cemetery by the seaside without fail. They would kneel before a joint grave, weeping uncontrollably while staring at the tombstone bearing both my name and Katrina's name. And next to our name, carved in smaller letters, there was a line that said, "May we never meet again in the afterlife."

My patience was running very thin as I already let this go on further than I should have. “Okay, so Penelope and I were staying at the Gaylord Palms Beach and Resort in Florida. It was like an hour drive to the beach so we packed up our stuff and headed there for the day.” Courtney paused and took a few more drinks. I leaned forward not wanting to miss a word since she was talking quietly. “It was late in the evening so there wasn't anyone around but us. The bars were still open and a few random couples were walking. Penelope said she was going to sit on the edge of the water as I went to get drinks. I turned the corner and saw a guy. It looked like he was kissing her but then I saw the bloo