Bruised Souls Shannon Lawrence Friday the 13th Blog Hop
Bruised Souls
& Other Torments
Short Stories
Fear resides in the soul.
A welcoming widow with a twisted appetite; a war-time evil lurking behind the face of a child; a father’s love gone horribly wrong; a deadly government solution; a new job with a demonic pay scale; a woman trapped in a mysterious house with no memory of who she is or how she got there. These are a mere glimpse of the terrors that lie in wait in this collection of horror short stories, sure to grip the psyche and torment the soul.
Bruised Souls & Other Torments, is up for pre-order (Kindle) at Amazon
Bruised Souls Friday the 13th Blog Hop
The rules for this blog hop were: Your post should be one of the following:
1. Your favorite urban legend
2. Your favorite old wives’ tale
3. Something scary that happened to you in real life that you learned from
Favorite Local Urban Legend
My favorite Urban Legend is Big Foot. Big Foot was a local legend as well where I grew up in Texas. There was a rumor that Big Foot roamed the countryside. He occasionally killed someone’s cow for food and you could smell him long before you would spot. We had a high report of cows being killed in the area, most likely some kind of lion or cougar, but many swore it was NOT a big cat. The smell is also how you could tell he was in the area or had been around because it lingers a while after he had gone. (And NO, it was not dead cow smell.)
My friends and I, just around the time we all got our driver licenses, went looking for Big Foot at night. We did this a lot in those days. That was when you were most likely to find or catch him. We swore we smelled him many times. This entertained us immensely. We had a lot of fun driving all over the countryside and scaring each other.
But I swear I smelled him and got a glimpse of him moving through the trees before he took off once. The next day there were three reports of cows found dead in the area where we had been night cruising in our local paper.
🙃🙈🙉🙊🐄🚗🦽
There were reports and rumors off and on throughout the years after that. Just saying…
I love hearing about things connected to Big Foot.
Favorite Big Foot Movie Harry and the Hendersons / 8 fun bigfoot movies
Favorite Big Foot Fiction Story Working for Big Foot anthology by Jim Butcher in the Dresden Files universe.
I am working on a middle-grade or YA project with a Big Foot character in a fiction world called Hollow Earth. You can read an unedited rough draft of the beginning of the first scene here. I have a whole beat outline and guess really what I am doing is expanding that scene by scene, until I have a full picture of the world and how it operates.
This beginning was written from the first beat in my outline. I am also approaching in a telling mode (expanding the beats by outlined scenes) here rather than showing. I was trying to figure out what that world might be like, figuring out the details, and what the reader would need to know to understand it, and what could be left out until later if needed. Basically, I was getting feel for being inside the world with the character.
I included these wives’ tale because these are true.
Eight Old Wives Tales About Food That Are True
From Readers Digest by Beth A. Tomkiw
You read more about these at this link.
Old Wives’ Tale No. 1: Eat a Tomato to Help Prevent Sunburn
Old Wives’ Tale No. 2: Oats Help Soothe Bug Bites
Old Wives’ Tale No. 3: Chicken Soup Will Cure Your Cold
Old Wives’ Tale No. 4: Chocolate Helps Ease Pre-menstrual Cramps
Old Wives’ Tale No. 5: Fish Is Brain Food
Old Wives’ Tale No. 6: An Apple a Day Will Keep the Doctor Away
Old Wives’ Tale No. 7: Cod Liver Oil Is Good for You
Old Wives’ Tale No. 8: Turkey Makes You Sleepy
Bruised Souls Friday the 13th Blog Hop
Visit these other blogs.
Find out their favorite urban legend, wives’ tale, or scary moment where they learned something.
Yolanda Renee – Basement Creepies
Juneta Key– Big Foot
Patricia Lynne – Vanishing Hitchhiker
Jemi Fraser – Nightmares
Tonja Drecker
Kalpana – Delhi Djinns
Donna Hole – Sasquatch
Shannon Lawrence
A fan of all things fantastical and frightening, Shannon Lawrence writes primarily horror and fantasy. Her stories can be found in over forty anthologies and magazines, and her two solo horror short story collections, Blue Sludge Blues & Other Abominations and Bruised Souls & Other Torments are available from online retailers. When she’s not writing, she’s hiking through the wilds of Colorado and photographing her magnificent surroundings, where, coincidentally, there’s always a place to hide a body or birth a monster.
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IWSG APRIL 1ST: - Juneta Key
April 1, 2020 @ 11:18
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March 16, 2020 @ 02:57
That is one creepy cover! Definitely promises some tales that could keep a reader up at night!
I always figured Big Foot made the most sense of all the mysterious creatures. I always assumed he’d have enough human qualities to want to refrain from joining civilized society.
I never knew that about tomatoes!
March 15, 2020 @ 00:54
I spent a lot of time Big Foot hunting in my youth too. What is it about our generation, the new drivers license, and piling in cars for – whatever reason? My kids learn of the stories surrounding our woods and creeks, and honestly believe – as I did at their age – that “adults” know nothing about the kissing points, drinking coves, Big Foot hide-outs.
Those were all great wives tales Juneta. The book sounds cute. I’ll bet its fun to write!
March 15, 2020 @ 09:44
LOL, I don’t know. We went ghost hunting too visiting cemeteries at night so go figure. And yes we did see some unexplained things or we scared each other enough we thought we did. Thank you. I have put the book on back burner for now while I work on my space opera. That is the one I hope to finish this year and then maybe work on the bigfoot one.
March 14, 2020 @ 00:58
Big Foot does capture the imagination! How brave of you to go off hunting in the middle of the night. What was the smell like? I’m really curious.
March 14, 2020 @ 09:51
LOL, not brave really, we were having fun and at that age, you don’t think about what could happen but looking for an adventure and fun. Smelled like rotten eggs and dirt in some ways a very earthy smell, not a dead smell. And it lingered for hours in the areas before dissipating.
March 13, 2020 @ 20:21
LOL, how exciting to have been in the middle of it all. And yes, numbers make the scare much easier, but I’d have been looking over my shoulder the whole time while pushing that car out of the mud. No, better yet, I’d have done the driving! LOL
Great old wives’ tales. I’d say most are right on and work!
March 14, 2020 @ 09:48
We had a lot of fun as teens and YA when I was growing up.
March 13, 2020 @ 19:02
Big Foot was my first introduction to the world of cryptozoology, and I’ll always love hearing about him. For the longest time, I had a story I’d torn from a magazine (can’t remember which one, but it was a big, respected one) about people’s personal experiences with him. It had an illustration of a woman dressed like a banana and being peeled by Big Foot. Also, I didn’t know about tomatoes helping prevent sunburns. Good luck on that story. It sounds great! And thank you for participating today and helping to spread the word about Bruised Souls!
March 14, 2020 @ 09:47
Your welcome. Its a fun blog hop.
March 13, 2020 @ 12:49
Those are the best kinds of adventures for teenagers!!! And so spooky!
The big foot legends are fascinating – and we have a lot of unexplored forest areas!!
March 14, 2020 @ 09:46
Yeah they were fun as teen and YA. Did a lot of driving and cruising around the countryside.
March 13, 2020 @ 09:39
Even if you didn’t see him, at least you had fun scaring yourselves.
March 13, 2020 @ 12:16
LOL, we did. We ran the back roads, got stuck in the mud had to push the car out of knee-deep mud. There were six of us, so three sat in front three in the back of an old 67 Ford 4 door. Good thing or we would never have pushed that thing out of the mud that night.