Read Bridge: a shade short story Online
Authors: Jeri Smith-Ready
Bridge: a shade short story (6 page)
and stride into the future,
on a path I can never follow.
IV. Outro (at the original end of the book)
While I was a ghost,
I wanted nothing more
Than to live again.
She gave me that chance.
But to take it,
to remain in this world,
knowing her secret,
one I couldn’t keep,
was a chance I couldn’t take.
Never.
Ghosts can’t lie.
So the moment she told me
her father was a ghost,
I knew I would leave.
I would take her secret
to a world where no one can pluck it out of me,
where no one can hurt her.
Ever.
In her world,
only he knows her secret.
Now that I’ve looked him in the eye,
I know it’s safe with him.
I know she’s safe with him.
Forever.
Thank you for spending time with Logan! He’s always held a special place in my heart, so it makes me happy to share his story, both on the page and behind the scenes.
If you want to read more about him and his world of ghosts, check out these novels available on Kindle:
And look for Zachary’s and Martin’s stories later this year!
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Digital Edition 1.0 © 2013 by Jeri Smith-Ready
“Bridge” first appeared in the anthology
Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions
, edited by Melissa Marr and Kelley Armstrong, Harper Teen, 2011.
Cover design by Reece Notley © Jeri Smith-Ready
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Where such permission is sufficient the author grants the rights to strip any DRM which may be applied to this work.
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