Commas and Quotations: OBSESSION (Book 2) by Georgina Hannan

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

OBSESSION (Book 2) by Georgina Hannan

*Young Adult, Paranormal Horror*

Prologue

Obsession is the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, or desire.
Madness is a state of being mentally ill.
Both can have similar symptoms. Both take over you completely, changing who you are, how you act, what you say and what you do.
Most people would say they definitely aren’t mad and that they have never been obsessed with anything because they don’t have that kind of personality. But maybe that’s because they haven’t found anything that important to them…Maybe they aren’t cursed with that trait.
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“Seen off another husband, I see,” sneered a village lady as she walked past Mary in town. The woman’s husband gave his wife a stern look for speaking out of turn. Mary was high society and so didn’t need to respond to a commoner, yet she laughed, sending chills down the passers’ spines.
“Your family is cursed. I pity your son,” the woman’s husband spat.
“Oh yes, indeed we are! I wonder how the curse will manifest itself in the next generations?” Mary replied and cackled as she strode away from the shocked viewers.