Dying to Return
Trish Marie Dawson
Release Date: Summer 2013
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
BLURB
Dying to Return is the 3rd book in the Young
Adult Fantasy The Station Series.
Piper Willow's adventure in the afterlife continues as she struggles to
discover who she is and what is expected of her. Faced with decisions that
could change everything, she must weigh her desire to be with the ones she has
come to love, or satisfy her curiosity and find out what lies beyond her world
with someone new. What Piper experiences and the choices she makes could not
only alter the delicate inner workings of the Station, but the delicate balance
that Piper has managed to maintain inside herself. In the end, will it all be
worth it?
EXCERPT
A heaviness settles over the table and Andella is no longer
giggling. "Why did you do it, Piper Willow?"
"Andella!" her father hisses. He seems embarrassed
for her, but she holds my stare across the wide table. I see nothing sinister,
just simple curiosity in her eyes.
I reach for my blue-tinted glass and sip at the water.
Gulping down air, I try on my best smile and elbow Rush slightly when I feel
his gentle prodding at the locked gates my mind.
"I can't answer that. I mean…" I pause, allowing
myself to reflect, "I guess I do know why. But I don't know why I thought
killing myself was the only option." With a shrug, I sip more water.
Andella reclines slightly in her chair and nods.
"Unlike my brother," she shoots Rush a warm smile, "I have not
traveled to your world, but I have seen into it. There is much sadness there.
Such a loss of potential. I think you are different though. I think on some
level, you must have known there was something else beyond your life. Did you
not?"
I twirl the fabric napkin on my lap while considering the
question carefully. "I think I just wanted that life to be over." I
feel the tears building up in my eyes as my voice drops to just above a
whisper, "Some people call it Heaven, a better place after life. I didn't
care about Heaven or Hell, I just wanted out."
A large hand reaches toward me and I look up through my
blurred vision to find Andulen's hand atop mine. Rush is also touching me, and
though she's clear across the table, I feel Andella's calming presence as well.
"Child. You cannot fit your life into a square coffer.
It will find a way to spill out over the sides and explore that which surrounds
it. Even once that coffer is lidded, your life doesn't cease to exist - you
carry on. That is what you have done, Piper Willow. That is why you sit here
with us this evening, eating and drinking and breathing. Your life - it will
always struggle to stay outside that coffer. Do you understand this?"
I nod at Andulen and smile as he squeezes my hand before
releasing it. My voice wouldn't work even if I had words appropriate to use, so
I sip from my tinted glass again.
"Now. I have serious matters to discuss about this
Earth of yours. The first thing, a question I have had on my mind since my Son
here breached the subject to me." He pauses with his face set into a hard
expression and I gulp. "Can you explain to me what Rugby is?"
AUTHOR BIO
Trish was born and mostly raised in San Diego, California
where she lives now with her family and pets. She's been writing short stories
and poetry since high school after an obsession with Stephen King's 'The
Stand'. After over fifteen years of crazy dreams and an overactive imagination,
Trish began her first book 'I Hope You Find Me' in December of 2011. When Trish
isn't writing, she's homeschooling her amazing daughter and mildly autistic
son, reading whatever she can get her hands on, or enjoying the Southern
California sun. As a strict Vegetarian, Trish holds a special place in her
heart for animal rights and dashes into the backyard weekly to rescue lizards
and mice from her mini-lab/cocker spaniel mixed dog, Zoey...who is always
getting into some sort of trouble.
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