Genre Fantasy. Page - 88
I am Ruby Mayfield. A freshman at a small high school in Dayton, Ohio. Something weird is going on. I found this excerpt from some old book in my attic, and ever since I found it, I've been... different.
Soon to be part of a series of books.
*IN PROGRESS*
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In Delusional, Ruby J. Mayfield experiences an awful fright. She hallucinates all of the time. It draws her family and friends farther and farther away from her, and gives the town a terrible image of her. Thinking she's schizophrenic, and the like.
Eventually, she discovers a power that most would believe to be a great blessing, at first thought. She learns she is able to see the dead, to an extent. But she soon finds it to be a curse, even after enjoying her ability...
The burning is spreading! It went from my hands to my arms and then down my back. The bright red flames shoots out of my fingertips to the father I once loved. They wouldn’t stop no matter how much I try. Screaming erupts in my ear. I turn toward my mother and the flames engulf her. I hear my younger sisters screaming at me to stop. But I couldn’t. My rage toward my father fuels the fire.
My sisters pull on my arms, trying to get the flames away from our mother. I scream at them to let go or they would burn too. But they wouldn’t. Out of fear of burning them, the flames die. Ethne runs over to our mother to checks for a pulse. When she starts crying, I fall apart. Tears roll down my cheeks as the sudden realization that I killed our parents hit me.