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Mirror with Attitude

Selkie here. After my strange encounter with a text message in Laying Ghosts, I seem to be hounded by objects with attitude! Some are seriously creepy like this one.

 

 

In the first chapter of THE FIRST LIE, I encounter the face of a strange woman in my bathroom mirror. I’ve just moved to Hawaii, a place full of paranormal happenings and to say I’m spooked is an understatement.

 

I race outside and phone my flatmate Wanda, who says the mirror belonged to her grandmother, Tutu. What she says next is a shock:

 

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“Tutu was a kahuna,” Wanda says. “That’s where I get my Hawaiian blood, from her. She saw things. In her mind. And in the mirror.”

 

“Things?” I ask.

 

“You know. The future. Predictions. Visions.” She stops. “Now you’ve seen one.”

 

“I saw a face, that’s all. A face that . . . stared at me.” But the hairs on my neck are standing up.

 

Then we talk about what to do with the mirror:

 

“What do you want me to do,” Wanda asks, “call in an exorcist?”

 

“Hell, no. Just move the bloody thing.” Into a dumpster on the other side of the island.

 

“You can move it. Turn the mirror to the wall and it loses its power.”

 

“No way,” I say. “And I’m stuck outside in my bathrobe. How am I going to get to work?”

 

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Hawaiian folklore turns out to have lots of stories about mystical mirrors:

• faces appearing, causing doors to slam and cups to rattle

• the ritual of turning the mirror to the wall before going to bed …

 

In THE FIRST LIE, searching for the woman in the mirror turns into a quest I never imagined. 

 

Follow    to meet the Ornaments with Attitude.