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Forbidden
Psychology major Grace Fox has known for eight years that she was unique and different from the people around her. A car accident when she was twelve years old opened up a new path in her mind, and Grace can see things that no one else can see.Taken under the wing of Professor Jenkins, Grace is eager to test the boundaries of her abilities, but Professor Jenkins cautions a slow methodology to her training. Impatient with her professor’s approach, Grace takes matters into her own hands.Grace coerces her best friend to film her exploration of an abandoned building on campus that is rumored to be haunted. In the end, Grace finds out that there’s a very good reason that her professor didn’t want her hunting for ghosts on her own.Forbidden is a short story of 5500 words.
17 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 29, 2013
About the author
Cege Smith
26 books92 followersEveryone loves a good origin tale. Cege's started when she was eight years old. She snuck out of bed late one night and into the living room to watch TV. Flipping through stations with the volume turned down low, she came across a rerun of a movie called The Exorcist. She was terrified yet mesmerized.
Cege wasn't unfamiliar with the idea of the battle between good and evil. She attended Catholic school in a small town in rural Wisconsin, and at the time knew the 'age appropriate' stories from the Bible. Nothing in those stories prepared her for the visual onslaught of watching the battle between the priests and the demon for the soul of the young Linda Blair. Cege was deeply disturbed by the movie, but nonetheless a seed was planted that night. That seed grew into a rampant fascination with all things supernatural.
Sleepovers turned into B-rated horror film marathons. Her library card was used to bring home piles of books about ghosts and vampires. She still isn't quite sure who she loved first, Stephen King or Freddy Krueger. By the time she was twelve, Cege took a turn at penning her own spooky tales. That love of things that go bump in the night and scare you to death has only grown stronger throughout the years.
The paranormal and supernatural take center stage in all of Cege's stories. Over the years, she has crafted her own origin stories about vampires (the Bloodtruth series), zombies (the Twisted Souls series), and ghosts, angels, and demons (the Shadows series). She's also taken on the folklore around the Fountain of Youth (the Immortal End series beginning with Ageless). There is something for every reader of the paranormal in Cege's books.
Cege wasn't unfamiliar with the idea of the battle between good and evil. She attended Catholic school in a small town in rural Wisconsin, and at the time knew the 'age appropriate' stories from the Bible. Nothing in those stories prepared her for the visual onslaught of watching the battle between the priests and the demon for the soul of the young Linda Blair. Cege was deeply disturbed by the movie, but nonetheless a seed was planted that night. That seed grew into a rampant fascination with all things supernatural.
Sleepovers turned into B-rated horror film marathons. Her library card was used to bring home piles of books about ghosts and vampires. She still isn't quite sure who she loved first, Stephen King or Freddy Krueger. By the time she was twelve, Cege took a turn at penning her own spooky tales. That love of things that go bump in the night and scare you to death has only grown stronger throughout the years.
The paranormal and supernatural take center stage in all of Cege's stories. Over the years, she has crafted her own origin stories about vampires (the Bloodtruth series), zombies (the Twisted Souls series), and ghosts, angels, and demons (the Shadows series). She's also taken on the folklore around the Fountain of Youth (the Immortal End series beginning with Ageless). There is something for every reader of the paranormal in Cege's books.
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November 24, 2013
Forbidden is a short ghost story of just 157 KB, that was written in 2013. Grace Fox is a junior at Winston Monroe College. Walker Hall has a reputation for being haunted and Grace goes on an adventure to see if she can connect with a ghost.
Cege tries very hard to set the scene and to create a spooky atmosphere. But there is nothing special about this tale. Forbidden is a disappointing coffee break read of no greater merit than a throw away magazine article. I got to the end and thought "yeah, well, okay". Forbidden is a POOR read and I vote it only 2 stars as there are far more entertaining short stories out there.
Cege tries very hard to set the scene and to create a spooky atmosphere. But there is nothing special about this tale. Forbidden is a disappointing coffee break read of no greater merit than a throw away magazine article. I got to the end and thought "yeah, well, okay". Forbidden is a POOR read and I vote it only 2 stars as there are far more entertaining short stories out there.
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