Bewitched.. WIP scene, OCT Challenge. (From a NEW WIP, a Romance at that!)

No sooner than my cash register slides shut with a ching, my phone vibrates next to my computer’s keyboard with a text. It’s Marsha, the oldest of my two kids, but only by less than a minute. I smile to myself, a little excited and a little nervous. They’re dramatic little turds, the both of…

“Bump in the night” WIP Character Scene Challenge, Oct.

  Toes first, I lower myself into the steaming water of my antique clawfoot bathtub. The aroma of lavender and muscle-relaxing oils swirl and blend. They’re pushed and pulled around the air through the lifting steam, rolling up the length of my body like barrels of smoke. I flinch at the burning heat. The water…