
Chasing Ghosts
Tara has been chasing her mother's ghost since she was young. She has dedicated her entire life to learning the truth about the series of events that led up to her mother's disappearance. But now that Emily has been found, how will Tara and everyone close to Emily deal with her being alive?
And how will Emily, who has been a prisoner of war for fifteen years, cope with being free?
With the amount of trauma that Emily has been through, can she continue to move forward, or will her ghost hold her back?

Chasing Ghosts in the Wild




Chasing Ghosts ~ Chapter Fourteen:
I feel the cold dirt under my cheeks, and I stretch out my left arm to probe into the darkness. The darkness is like a dark cloud shrouding my eyes, and I have no idea where they have taken me, I open my mouth to cry out, but my throat is so dry. I close it and try to swallow, but there is no saliva in my mouth to coat my throat. My right arm is tucked under me, and when I try to move, there is a searing pain that shoots out from my right shoulder and travels up and down the right side of my body. The pain is what gets my vocal cords working. I scream a hoarse cry, fueled by the pain. After a while, the pain subsides, and I try again to make my body move, but the pain completely paralyzes me. This time though, not only is there a stabbing pain moving up and down my right side, but my head begins to throb something fierce. I pull my left arm back in and rub my forehead, and that's when it all begins to come back to me. I can stick three fingers width into the gash. God, that's not good. I press my right cheek against the cold dirt floor again. It gives some relief from the pain in my head. I try to force myself to stay awake, but I can feel my eyes begging to close again. All I can hope for is that I don't wake back up.