My Book

Here is an excerpt from the book I've been working on...seemingly forever now...anyway I really like this paragraph and hope you enjoy it too!  I'll not give any back ground, I think the paragraph gives enough information and hopefully peaks some interest!


The dull moans of the wind both unsettled and soothed her.  It's hollow cries cautioned her, yet were drenched with a certain familiarity that eased her as she lay in the foreign bed listening to the low gongs of the hanging chimes outside her window.  She preferred the low gongs of the large grandfatherly chimes to the clattering chatter of others.  She hadn't known that before, and was now leery of declaring truths about herself for she was finding that the truth did change like the direction of the wind.  The truth, she thought, was that her dad loved her, but now it was clear he had sent her into darkness to be hated and abused, that was the truth now.  Maybe Aunt Susan's right.  Maybe my father is a murderer.  She lay still, wrestling with the idea of her father actually killing someone, taking a life, and it just didn't make sense.  She refused to believe him capable, she was angry with him, yes.  Angry for leaving her, angry for lying to her, for making her stay with her horrible aunt, but she had to look past the anger.  There was a truth, there had to be, but what that truth was exactly, she wasn't sure.  She repeated the thought silently in her head, clinging to what her father had said, "find the truth."  The wind was relentlessly pounding against the window pane, causing the house to shift and creak.  She wondered if the old house would give in to the wind and collapse around her.  She imagined, as her eyes drifted shut, the walls tearing in and crushing her; the wind having it's way with the scraps remaining, throwing the unfamiliar debris above her, as she lay beneath the rubble. 

So that's it...sorry for any grammatical errors.  Grammar and I are not exactly close friends!  I am currently on chapter 5 of this book and it's only taken me a few years....yikes!  Some day I will finish, some day!  Until then I will glory in this paragraph and hope you all like it too!