Excerpt from the book Stories from the Grove

Emily avoids Jillian’s gaze, and yet she hopes the psychic connects with her boyfriend.  She wonders what his funeral was like, it happened before they met.  Emily sees images of people gathered, tons of black, and lots of crying or not crying.  But Emily doesn’t have any paranormal ability.  In the session, Jillian told Grizzly, “Emily will have more shoes than your sister, but I see a tragic accident.”  Jillian knows nothing.  But Grizzly is hoping to hear more happy visions of riches and ghostly visits.

“Maybe we need to hear lies to feel we are living,” Emily says.

“The story is true,” Grizzly says, “ A ghost came by the house.”  She throws her daughter a look as if to say, are you trying to mess this up?

“Emily’s anger might be a root cause, why these ghost loves show up,” Jillian says.

“I could be psychic the way she goes on about our history,” Emily says.

“Quiet,” Grizzly says.

“I’m getting a flash, an image of something.”  And then the mystic’s eyes gloss over and she looks as if she’s in a trance or concentrating hard.  “Everyone is in shock.”

From the short story, “Psychic Interventions,” from Stories from the Grove.