So, this is what I’ve been working on this month, another novel in New Bedlam. Here’s the first little bit, rough as it is, but perhaps it’ll whet your appetite for more!
Into The Mirror
by Jodi Lee
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The mirror was leaning against the back wall of the storage room, just waiting patiently for someone from the family to come and claim it. Most of the partners and all of the support staff had forgotten it even existed, and those that remembered didn’t want anything to do with …

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! BLESSED SAMHAIN!
Tonight, we’re hunting ghosts. Ghosts from New Bedlam, or just ghosts from town…either way, we’re going to scare something up with the New Bedlam Experiement…
(This post will be modified as things progress!)

As an only child raised by a single mom, I’d often spend Halloween nights at my grandparents’ house. We’d arrive after the rounds of both small towns – where my mom and I lived, and where my grandparents lived – and I’d proceed to gorge on whatever it was I pulled out of the bag first. My grandparents would get the Witches Treats toffees, my mother would get the hard candies like raspberry kisses and lemon drops. I’d get the rest, after it being thoroughly examined of course.
Absolutely wired on …

Me, yeah, that’s who. (insert smiley beating it’s head against a brick wall here)
Into The Mirror
Naturally, I’m going back to New Bedlam… or really, this time I’m going to try to get the character OUT of New Bedlam. HA. That’ll never happen, not with the wall opening up behind the mirror (literally, some day I’ll be able to take a picture and show ya’ll…).
Seems I could be mixing up reality and mirrored reality again. Damn it. And some of you think I should put up the third mirror and see …

Wait… That was Yentl… oh well. 😉
I used the prologue/first chapter of the New Bedlam novel to do the I Write Like meme, and it turns out I write like Hemingway. Hmmm. I don’t know exactly how to feel about that, but it makes me want to giggle for some reason…

I write likeErnest Hemingway
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!