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Welcome to Merriton— the town that celebrates EVERYTHING! Esther Jacobs is a young teacher who grew up in Merriton and was overwhelmed by the constant excitement and ritualized joy. Upon her college graduation, she took a job in the big city, where she could participate in things when she wanted and be anonymous when she wanted too. But big‑city living is expensive, and student loans don’t make it easier. When a teaching position opens suddenly in the middle of the school year, Esther’s parents convince her to come back home. Reluctantly, she returns, promising herself that she’s an adult now — someone who can finally say “no” to the town’s relentless rituals. But Merriton has been waiting for her, and the moment she arrives, it becomes clear the town has plans of its own.

Celia is supposed to be choosing her wedding veil, but every lace‑draped option feels like a curtain she can’t quite see through. When a brush with the supernatural pulls her into The Veil—the shadowed realm where the restless dead linger—Celia begins slipping into the final moments of the South’s most famous ghosts. Each encounter leaves her shaken, changed, and a little less certain of the life she’s been building with Bryan. As the boundary between the living and the lost grows thinner, Celia must face the truth the spirits keep whispering: some veils are meant to be lifted… and some are meant to be left behind.

After ten years of telling ghost stories, I’ve met countless spirits whose lives—and deaths—deserve more than a footnote in a dusty history book. Their legends linger in whispers, in roadside shadows, in the places where the living and the lost brush past each other. Instead of retelling their tales as cold facts, I want to imagine the moments that might have happened in the spaces between truth and folklore. These stories are stitched with the paranormal, brushed by the supernatural, and rooted in the real people who once walked these roads. What follows isn’t history… but it could be.

I’m a teacher and a storyteller, which means I’m much better at talking than being brief. So I’m challenging myself to do the impossible: write short stories. Any genre, any topic, no excuses. Each piece is a tiny experiment in voice, mood, and imagination — a chance to see what happens when I stop explaining and just let the story speak for itself.

As you can see from my first publication, School Daze, I was never someone who considered herself “into” poetry. But completing the 21‑Day Poetry Challenge surprised me — it was equal parts fun and frustrating, and it stretched my creativity in ways I didn’t expect. Now that I’ve tried it once, I’m ready to try again, this time with a little more courage and a lot more curiosity.