I Sacrifice Myself
Written By Author Christina Worrell AKA
Faellin Angel
Cover By Ashley Lane
Smashwords Edition
October 2012
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I bring to you a haunting and horrific tale
that will leave you tingly, shivering, and quite possibly wishing
you were not alone and unaware of the eyes glaring out at you in
the darkness, from your window.
Within these pages you will find one of my
demented fantasies brought to life to entertain you on a dark and
chilly evening. Enjoy it with a fine glass of Chardonnay by a fire,
or anywhere. I suggest that you cuddle with a warm furry companion
for the sake of your heart.
Don’t worry, there are many more short
stories to come. I have many books already published. You can check
out both the e-books and paperbacks just about anywhere online and
shortly they will be available on book shelves near you.
About The Author
Christina Worrell, AKA Faellin Angel, lives
in the sweltering swamps of Georgia close to the Savannah coast.
She has been a gypsy of sorts and has traveled and lived in many
different cities, and quite a few states. She has not had the
opportunity to step off American soil as of yet, but some day plans
to travel as far as England and Ireland.
Christina is a married, mother of two
beautiful kids and several animals, and has many full time jobs,
even though they all take place at home. Being a housewife is
mandatory as is a mother. She also is the owner of an online
bookstore and sells a little of everything. She has plans to buy
and own a nice Victorian establishment somewhere near home and sell
books and occult items, such as Tarot Cards and candles.
Aside from spending time at buying and
selling books, she tries to maintain her lifelong dream of being a
published author, and has over a dozen books available in e-book
and paperback. She also reads, writes, edits, reviews, shares,
publishes books and has tried her hand at creating book covers. As
hard as it is to do just one of those jobs she also runs many
Facebook pages and groups to help promote not only herself and her
own books, but others as well.
She is not all work and no play, she’s also
a proud Pagan with Buddhism and Wiccan as her religion. She doesn’t
claim to be a real witch but she has never actually denied it
either. She does claim though, to being an actual Empath, and does
Tarot Readings in her spare time, what little she has of it.
All this work is not just to benefit
herself, or other authors, but to support her son, Super D
(Damien), who has a few disabilities such as Autism and ADHD among
a few. Profits from all her endeavors goes to this little superhero
and his Autism Cause. He has a Facebook page and a page of his own
on Christina’s website. Donations are always welcomed, but all that
she asks of anyone is to like and share his pages.
Mrs. Worrell is also an avid video game
player. She loves classics, RPG, Shooter, and anything to do with
zombies or other supernatural elements and creatures.
That also goes for her entertainment as
well. She enjoys many shows such as Supernatural, The Walking Dead,
Buffy and Angel, Charmed, and many more. Although zombies are one
of her top ten fears, she gets her fill of them. She even treats
herself to some wickedly terrifying Zombies on COD, for those of
you who know what that is!
Her writing genre is an unique twist of
flavors such as Paranormal, Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy, Romance,
Poetry, Erotica, and a few children’s books. She, and her books,
can be found just about anywhere online and soon in stores near
you. She’s working on a FREE sampler of her works, since she has so
many, and will hopefully have it out shortly after this book
releases.
She is always hard at work on several books
at one time, as she can get quite distracted. With her busy and
chaotic life she has managed to find the time to write and publish
over a dozen books since officially becoming an author in early
2012. Not many authors can say that. She is also correcting a few
editing errors on her first book Shade’s Loss, which had some
issues that most first time Indie authors come across. She tried
joining a new publisher but found being independent and working
with several others was better for her.
You will find she has a few short stories in
anthologies with other authors, which she donated for good causes.
In the future you will find her working with many authors, both
with publishers and independent, because to her it is not about how
or who published what but the final product and its success. So she
is neutral and plans to stay so for some time… unless she gets
recognized by some very prominent publishing houses. She has her
eye on a lucky few, and I say lucky because this young, up and
coming author is going to get not only recognized, and very soon,
but will be competing with some major authors.
If this is your first book then you are
missing out, I urge you to read a few of her reviews, keeping in
mind that there is some jealous competition that has been out
longer than she. Remember everyone has their own opinions, likes
and dislikes, and it takes readers like you to make an authors
dream come true. Enjoy a book, then show it by supporting them in
many different ways but mainly by gushing about the book that you
read. Trust me, the more you share the word, the more fans that
author gains. The more fans an author has, the more books they
release for YOUR enjoyment. Want a sequel? Then show the author by
helping her sale more of the book you enjoy so much. Authors see
which books are liked better than others and when they do they know
that writing a series will benefit them most.
So I hope you have come to know this
wickedly tantalizing and sizzling author and will enjoy the book as
much as I did.
I have known her longer than anyone and have
come to enjoy her quirky and snarky personality that draws you in
and makes you fall in love with her (it did me). Her realistically
balanced views of life make you see things you never would have
before. Her child-like wonder of the epic and magical fantasy
world, including the literary one, will have you following her on
memorable and never-ending journeys that only an author truly can.
A storyteller such as this will leave you breathless, desperate for
more, and vividly seeing worlds beyond our own.
You will find a page of her links within
this book, and if you think you have the courage to step into a
wonderland just as addicting as the current Vamp and Fang hits,
then do yourself a favor and drop what you are doing (unless its
reading this book of course) and go get more of her talented works.
You are denying yourself a pleasure none should. I would know, it
took me a decade to pick up one her books and I’m her husband!
I have to admit here to not exactly writing
this word for word, since I am not the talented writer my wife is,
but I worked with her two best friends (one of which IS an author)
to get what I wanted to say and share it with you. My rambling
mental nonsense would have made you scream like a banshee or worse
drop this book and run for cover.
I never say what I mean, mean what I say,
and understand less than half of what my wonderful wife says. She
talks a lot despite all the stuff she gets accomplished, somehow,
in less time than it took me to figure out how to get my nonsense
into words and typed up. The typing part took about twenty minutes
or so, the thinking part took much, much longer.
Don’t think because I’m her husband that I’m
urging you to read this book and all her others, because it’s not.
Other than the fact she will probably hurt me when she reads this,
okay definitely, because she is more of a anti-social, shy, and
quiet sharer of anything personal. That and she finally wore me
down after a decade of avoiding anything with words bigger than I
can say, and made me read this book, which I found to my shock that
I actually enjoyed it. Okay, I didn’t so much read it as was force
fed it. She read it to me over several long nights. By the first
chapter I was caught up in the action. By long I mean it took
several, sessions?, to understand some of the more sophisticated
words that authors of her level use. I didn‘t make it to college,
okay.
Do me a favor though and remind her of one
of her cover artists favorite scare tactics he uses on her… alien,
spider-like zombies that have crept into her room at night as they
cause the apocalypse. She almost always has nightmares after one of
us say something like that!
-Joseph Worrell
I Sacrifice Myself
Prologue
From the outsider’s point of view, the snug
little cottage hidden quite cleverly in the twilight woods,
appeared to be peaceful. It appeared full of love, full of serenity
and safety.
That was not the truth, and far from it.
Inside this home of three, a girl no older than five, lay trembling
and silently screaming as she stared out from her hiding spot
underneath a bed. She witnessed the horrendously, mind-numbing evil
and cruel creature walk into her home, as if he owned the place,
and crush her young, strong, and brave father as if he were no more
than a tiny and helpless kitten.
As her father’s still-warm blood sprayed
across the room, and slowly dripped down the walls that held her
pretty hand-drawn art, she held in her terror and pain. Her tiny
fist stifled the mews and cries that escaped, but could not dam the
tears that fell unhindered from her large and glowing amber
eyes.
Her father’s blue eyes stared back at her,
lifeless and full of helpless remorse, across the room from her
under the table. His headless body lay crumbled by the
fireplace.
Her mother fought like the protective and
powerful tigress she was, to do what she could to protect her sweet
angel who was hidden nearby. Courageous or not, even her elemental
powers of brilliantly life-like fire, could not stop the creature
who laughed with cold and dark delight.
Her mother was slain, was broken like a
beautiful porcelain doll, with what was left of her rose-red blood
draining down her chest onto the wooden floors.
Shade could not hold back the scream that
had been building since the vampire had stalked in, interrupting
her birthday.