TITLE: SECRET
GENRE: NA SECRET
I spent the night I died at the Tau Kappa end of semester blowout, downing spiked punch and making out with Billy Curtis.
Okay. Not really. But I should’ve at least had the guts to try. Maybe then I’d be waking up an ex-virgin with a hangover, next to the boy I’ve had a crush on since high school. I’d rather have that regret.
That’s what haunts me. Not the last thing I saw—headlights swerving at me head-on.
Not the last thing I heard—crunching glass, screeching tires, and the weakening lub-thud of my heart.
I’d spent my final hours on earth—scratch that, most of my life—studying for stupid tests that would never matter. I’d always been responsible. Done the right things. Safe things.
Yet here I am. Dead.
All the people with near-death experiences got it wrong. There’s no light at the end of the tunnel.
Miss Snark's First Victim
PARANORMAL
ReplyDeleteGhost! This is funny. I like the opening. I like that you tell us she's (or he?) dead pretty quickly but not in a heavy-handed way.
Urban Fantasy/Paranormal
ReplyDeleteUh, the MC is a ghost. :) I quite like this!
Paranormal, or possibly magical realism, because of the dead narrator, of course
ReplyDeleteParanormal
ReplyDeleteWritten from a dead person's POV it just seems natural it's paranormal.
Possibly contemporary? The character's thoughts seem very current & real-life, making me wonder whether she is truly dead.
ReplyDeleteContemporary/paranormal
ReplyDeleteParanormal
ReplyDeleteShe's dead, but acting like she isn't.
Paranormal. A snarky ghost. I like it.
ReplyDeleteParanormal
ReplyDeleteMC is a ghost
Contemporary fantasy, since the protagonist is a ghost.
ReplyDeleteContemporary paranormal, references to Greek life and drinking definitely modern day
ReplyDeleteParanormal. She's a college kid - fraternity, studies, parties. And now she's dead. Love the voice.
ReplyDeleteParanormal.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the beginning of a good book
Contemporary.
ReplyDeleteThis was a hard one b/c this seems to fall in the same category as Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall - which straddles contemporary with paranormal in that the narrator relives the last day of her life over and over. But overall the tone and themes seem to sway contemporary.