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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Name That Genre #15

TITLE: SECRET
GENRE: YA SECRET

Every time I visit my boyfriend, I have to ignore the house next door. The one my family moved out of, because even after Mom replaced the carpet upstairs, we couldn’t stop smelling the blood that had seeped in deeper. We couldn’t figure out how to fill with three people what once overflowed with six.
And anyway, we couldn’t afford it.

I focus on Ryan’s green door, on how my arm is just long enough to wrap around Ryan’s waist, and that’s it. He always walks like he has somewhere to be but no set time to be there, while I usually walk like I’m five minutes late. But time slows when I’m with him, so I match his pace. When we reach the porch, I turn away from my old house and kiss him until everything else slips from my mind.

“Your parents aren’t home, right?”

He grins against my lips.
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12 comments:

  1. don't hate meSeptember 1, 2016 at 12:23 PM

    Horror.

    With the bloody house and the teens kissing, it sounds like the perfect set up for a good horror.

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  2. RoseSeptember 1, 2016 at 1:45 PM

    Thriller. Certainly has me curious. :0)

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  3. Loretta ChefSeptember 1, 2016 at 3:02 PM

    HORROR
    This is a tough one. That tantalizing bit has so many possibilities. But I'm going with horror because three people have died in a very bloody scenario.

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  4. BarbaraSeptember 1, 2016 at 4:31 PM

    Thriller, with a touch of romance

    An abandoned house, the bloody rug, three less people. I was going to go with horror, but there's no hint of anything supernatural.

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  5. Maggie SoaresSeptember 1, 2016 at 4:52 PM

    Horror

    I thought it might have been contemporary, maybe a family dealing with the suicide of a family member, but once I realized THREE people were no longer in the house/family, I thought it was probably more sinister

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  6. GL LancourSeptember 1, 2016 at 5:01 PM

    Mystery/Thriller. This is a tough one without knowing the circumstances of those three deaths.

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  7. AliceSeptember 1, 2016 at 5:19 PM

    Thriller/mystery

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  8. UnknownSeptember 1, 2016 at 6:29 PM

    Thriller/mystery
    the missing people, the bloody house

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  9. AdrianneSeptember 1, 2016 at 9:11 PM

    Horror/Paranormal

    The house, the blood that kept seeping up, and the happy kissing teens.

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  10. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2016 at 6:03 AM

    Thriller

    Because of the tension in that scene. Also, I would have kept reading I'm hooked!!

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  11. MichelleJSeptember 2, 2016 at 3:15 PM

    Horror, because of the spooky house, three dead people and bloody floor.

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  12. L. HildSeptember 3, 2016 at 9:37 AM

    It's contemporary, but definitely is dark with mysterious elements.

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