Haunted Halloween 2011: Guest Post Jessi Kirby + A Giveaway!

Ghost Haunts Microwave

As a kid, I loved scary movies.  As a grown up, I stay the heck away from them, with good reason.  First off, I live in a seventy year old cottage, complete with creaky floors, windows that don’t necessarily latch securely, and no neighbors.  Secondly, my husband works the night shift, which means I spend plenty of time alone at night in my house.  All the makings of a classic horror film.  So when we moved in, I figured it was best not to watch anything that might send my imagination to creepsville.  Little did I know it wouldn’t be a scary movie that would freak me out, but a mundane household appliance.

That’s right. My microwave was haunted.

A few months after we moved in, my husband and I were awakened in the middle of the night by a repetitive dinging sound.  We both got up to see what it was, and when we rounded the corner to the kitchen, it was lit up in the creepiest way possible-- by the light from the microwave.  This would be the microwave that was on, dinging, and apparently cooking “Frozen Vegetables.”  That’s what was flashing across the little strip anyway.  He tried to turn it off by mashing all the buttons at once.  No luck. We stood there in the kitchen, helpless against the microwave ghost until he finally unplugged the thing and walked it outside.  The next day we went and bought a new one, I pretended it never happened,  and  we’ve had no haunting incidents since.  I tell myself the ghost took a liking to that particular microwave and followed it to it’s new home.  It’s how I sleep at night.

Moonglass is available now from Simon & Schuster 

Synopsis: From Jessi Kirby, a debut novel about confronting the past in order to move ahead.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now, I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both. 
Anna's life is upended when her father accepts a job transfer the summer before her junior year. It's bad enough that she has to leave her friends and her life behind, but her dad is moving them to the beach where her parents first met and fell in love- a place awash in memories that Anna would just as soon leave under the surface.

While life on the beach is pretty great, with ocean views and one adorable lifeguard in particular, there are also family secrets that were buried along the shore years ago. And the ebb and flow of the ocean's tide means that nothing- not the sea glass that she collects on the sand and not the truths behind Anna's mother's death- stays buried forever. 

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