WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS
When Debbie Holten and her friends find her little sister’s body sprawled on the beach at the bottom of a thirty-foot drop, they’re terrified. Mallory’s fall was her own fault, but the four kids are sure they’ll get blamed.
Debbie’s still trying to find her place in her new foster family. The last thing she wants is to give them a reason to send her back. In a panic, they hide Mallory’s broken body in a cave, hoping her “disappearance” will be easier to explain to the adults. And it works.
For a while.
On the first anniversary of Mallory’s death, one of the group turns up dead. The kids try to explain it away—but each “death-versary” brings about more horror and tragedy.
Debbie knows her baby sister’s death was an accident … but it seems Mallory’s spirit disagrees.
There's nothing better than a good ghost story, and if that ghost happens to be evil, well... that's as good as it gets!
More than a few of my story ideas have come from songs. In this case, Green Day's 'When September Ends' was the inspiration. I was listening to the radio in the car and the song came on, and for some reason it triggered a completely different meaning for me. What if someone wanted to skip the month of September because they were cursed?
From there, the idea of a curse because someone haunted by a ghost that returned every September. Making it a little girl was simply the icing on the evil cake!
