Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    All about Eve
    All about Eve
    All about Eve
    Ebook73 pages1 hour

    All about Eve

    By Caitlin McColl

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Eve has always seen dead people, ever since she was little. She has always kept her gift hidden, even from her family. That is, until she uncovers a terrible secret from her past. All About Eve is a prequel to my upcoming novel Under A Starlit Sky.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaitlin McColl
    Release dateApr 16, 2011
    ISBN9781458119254
    All about Eve
    Author

    Caitlin McColl

    Since childhood, Caitlin has written mainy fantasy - with dragons, wizards and other fantastical monsters. But now she writes Steampunk, stories that makes our world just a little bit more interesting, with the ability to mask the humdrum days we all have - those cold, grey, rainy, depressing days. The days you accidentally sleep in, lock yourself out of the house, battle morning rush hour and realize your still wearing your slippers. Caitlin lives in beautiful Vancouver, Canada with her husband and her dog.Amazon: www.amazon.com/author/caitlinmccollInstagram: instagram.com/caitlinmccollauthorSeptember 2020-Published The Clockwork Universe and The Stained Glass Heart, follow ups to Under A Starlit Sky. Also re-did covers for books.-Published All That Remains - a free short story collection from 2017-Republished The Diary of Dr Jekyll that was published by a Seattle based publisher that is no more2015-Released a free ebook compilation of stories from her short story blog, Under A Starlit Sky, collectively called The Dark And Shadowy Places.Hope you enjoy!

    Read more from Caitlin Mc Coll

    Related to All about Eve

    Related ebooks

    YA Fantasy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      Winds Of Change

      Dec 10, 2019

      “Till the end of the pitted and dusty lane, she was a dry, brown leaf swiftly floating down a clear stream. Part of it was easy, the part about being brown. ‘Brown as mud and common as mud,’ Aaji would scream every morning waking her up. The rest of

      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Girl Who Knew No Fear

      Jun 8, 2022

      The Girl Who Knew No Fear
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Mbuze

      Oct 29, 2021

      Mbuze
      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Gold-spinners

      Mar 4, 2024

      The Gold-spinners
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Change

      Aug 8, 2019

      The Change
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Dancing Days

      Jul 30, 2020

      Dancing Days
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      In The Beginning

      Jul 10, 2022

      There was a snake in the garden. Adam didn’t know how he knew it, but he did. “Father?” he called out cautiously. But Father did not answer him. The garden was a beautiful place, full of flowers, fruit trees, and animals of every kind. Nothing like a

      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Alice in the Delta & Other Poems

      Sep 1, 2024

      Now the muscle can uncoverthe shoulderthe field can come inthe bright green grass as an act of repairThe plaster so tiredso gladto stop holdingeverything upAfter years she scrapeda rectangle on one walldown to white by the lightsocket before she tore

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Granny’s Great Encore! DI MORRISSEY

      Nov 30, 2022

      Granny’s Great Encore! DI MORRISSEY
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Your Poetry

      Jun 25, 2021

      The music labeled from A to ZI can’t get those sounds out of my headThose 45s are from our lifeSometimes the memories cut like a knife Jukebox Nights have been the bestAll my problems to get off my chestSpent with people I love and have sharedA good

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Alma’s Hands

      Jan 1, 2023

      Alma’s Hands
      8 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Needle

      May 30, 2023

      The Needle
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Forgiveness & Rain

      Nov 1, 2024

      Forgiveness & Rain
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Red Kite Grey Shadow

      Nov 3, 2022

      Red Kite Grey Shadow
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Cornwall CALLING

      May 11, 2022

      Cornwall CALLING
      8 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Bees Are Coming

      Aug 4, 2022

      The Bees Are Coming
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Cricket Ceague

      Apr 1, 2019

      Penelope Berkeley, age 9 Mars Hill, NC Night had fallen, and Luna awoke from where she had been sleeping in a cornfield. She moved steadily through the stalks with barely a sound, keeping her eyes on the glittering glass rooftop of the greenhouse in

      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Are You Lonesome Tonight?

      Aug 8, 2019

      Are You Lonesome Tonight?
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The New Wilderness

      Aug 14, 2020

      The New Wilderness
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Swan

      Aug 27, 2021

      The Swan
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      A LIFE LESS Or Dinary

      Oct 1, 2019

      A LIFE LESS Or Dinary
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Moving On

      Dec 22, 2019

      Moving On
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Kids & Angels

      Jun 25, 2019

      Kids & Angels
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Out of THE BLUE

      Aug 22, 2023

      Out of THE BLUE
      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Fairy Serpent

      Feb 2, 2022

      The Fairy Serpent
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The PEARL DIVERS of TOBA COVE

      Mar 1, 2023

      The PEARL DIVERS of TOBA COVE
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Witch GIRL

      Oct 24, 2023

      The Witch GIRL
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for All about Eve

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      All about Eve - Caitlin McColl

      ALL ABOUT EVE

      by

      Caitlin McColl

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      * * * * *

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Caitlin McColl on Smashwords

      All About Eve

      Copyright © 2010 by Caitlin McColl

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      * * * * *

      ALL ABOUT EVE

      Eve had seen dead people for as long as she could remember. It was nothing new. Since she was five years old she had seen and heard things that others could not. She was psychic after all. But today was different. Today was the first time she had seen a corpse. She laughed to herself. ‘A real-live dead person‘, she thought wryly.

      She looked down at the girl lying on the muddy ground; her clothes were wet, legs smudged with dirt, cut and bruised by the sharp river rocks. Thankfully the girls face was covered by long wet hair. Eve didn’t know what to do, so she continued to stare. Glancing around she noticed she was still alone.

      She heard a voice, but she knew that it was just in her head. One only she could hear - that of her spirit guide Arra. Arra’s voice was irritating sometimes, like a buzzing insect, one that at that moment Eve was trying to ignore. You should go now, said the voice with a trace of urgency. Leave before people see you near this girl.

      Eve sent a thought back to Arra, ‘but I’m waiting for her spirit!’ she said petulantly. Then she said outloud, ‘I want to talk to her spirit, find out what happened’. She crouched down near the girl’s bare foot. The girl must have lost a shoe on her journey down the river. Everyone called it a river but it was really just a creek; a large creek, but a creek nonetheless. It ran through Golden Falls into the neighbouring town of False Creek, its namesake. Everyone called it a river because no one thought something with a name as innocuous as creek should be claiming as many lives as Golden Falls and False Creek suffered. Eve’s long dark brown hair fell forward over her eyes and she pushed it back behind her shoulder. She was about to reach out to the girl when she stopped. In her mind she saw a group of children heading through the forest, down a path that lead to the river. Go! she heard Arra nearly shout in her mind.

      Eve jumped up and grabbed the trunk of a thin poplar tree next to the river and pulled herself up the bank. She ran through the tall grass towards a small copse of oak trees and blackberry bushes. Just as she reached the bushes and crouched down behind them, the small group of children came out of the trees and headed towards the river.

      The small, sandy river bank that the body had washed up on was the place that everyone in town used. It was the main swimming hole of the river and was an area of mostly smooth, calm water, but the few whirlpools and eddies that were there was what attracted everyone. That was the fun part. Just before the swimming hole the river flowed quickly and hid a lot of large, sharp rocks just under the surface. There was a section of the river, just past the little stone bridge further up where there were lots of large flat rocks.

      In the summer people sometimes sat on the rocks and dangled their feet in the water, or used them as stepping stones across the river instead of going further down to the bridge. But during the fall and winter, when the water rose, the flat rocks became wet and slick and dangerous. Parents constantly warned their children to be careful and not to play on the flat rocks before the bridge. There had been a heavy rainfall a few days before, but today the late September sun was shining strong and the sky was clear and blue. It felt almost as if summer had returned.

      Eve tried to control her breathing and slow her heart. Her heart thudded in her chest and her blood pounded in her ears. It felt as if anyone nearby could hear it loud and clear. She watched with dread as the three children went down the bank, towards the body of the little girl with the long blonde hair that was missing a shoe. She saw their heads disappear down the bank, and then held her breath. After a few seconds, the screams came. Eve froze again but the voice of her guide was loud. Run, now. Quickly! Let’s go home. Without thinking, Eve pulled at the brambles that had caught on her dress and ignored the thorns that pierced her palms and scratched her bare arms and legs as she ran. She ran down the path in the woods, the same one the children had come down moments before.

      She didn’t look back, only straight ahead. Her feet barely touched the ground, she felt like she was flying. It seemed like she had been running for hours, but in reality only minutes later, the voice of Arra came to her again, this time gentle and calming. It’s okay, the voice soothed. You can stop now. You are safe. No one will know you were the first there, that it was you who found…‘ there was a pause, ‘her.’

      Eve tried to calm herself down and act natural as she came within sight of her house. She took her time walking up the long and winding gravel driveway of her parents’ large farmhouse. As she walked up the front steps, she caught a glimpse of her reflection in a window. Her long dark hair was sticking up wildly, thin strands floating in all directions. There was a smudge of dirt under

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1