ABANDONED

Dana E. Donovan

Smashwords Edition

Published by Smashwords

Author's notes, This book is based entirely on fiction and its story line derived solely from the imagination of its author. No characters, places or incidents in this book are real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, places, events or locales is entirely coincidental. No part of this publication may be copied or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy or otherwise, without the expressed written permission of the author or author’s agent. Passing on digital copies of this work is expressly forbidden.

Dana E. Donovan © 2004 2011

ONE

Some people think I’m crazy. I don’t know—maybe I am. After all, that is why I’m here. Isn’t it? When I decided to sit down to tell this story I thought it would be simple. But now as I gather up the pieces, I can see it isn’t.

All right then, where do I start? Do I begin on that hot August day when I returned to the house in which I spent my summers as a child? Perhaps I should tell you about the first time I realized the house was haunted? Better yet, maybe I need to go all the way back to the day I killed my little brother, Patrick. But no, I’m not ready to talk about that. Not yet anyway. So I guess I’ll start by telling you about the day I came back to New Castle to see my grandmother. After everything that’s happened, it’s the part I still remember most vividly.