My upcoming Halloween freebie for readers is about a psychic witch (see I did pay attention to the reader poll, lol) who suffers from seizure disorder after being in a car wreck ten years earlier. If she is touched during a seizure, the overactive electrons in her brain fire up visions. Some are insights into a person, revealing them in their most guarded and true moments, other visions are of future events.
In this snippet, the heroine doubts her latest vision, I mean who wouldn’t? Since she sees the good Samaritan in front of her change into a Leopard! :-)
Enjoy!
The Shadow Leopard
by Cassandra Curtis
© 2009
An old, familiar tingling sensation crawled over Gabriella Shaw’s scalp. She fought it, jaw muscles tight. Her hands curled into fists. No! Not after all this time! She stayed on her medication—never skipped a day. Ever since the accident ten years ago, she’d suffered through both petite mal and grand mal seizures until her doctors found the correct therapeutic dose of medicine. So why was this happening now?
Her view dimmed and her world dissolved through a dark tunnel. Bad as the episodes were, the worst were the visions that often accompanied the bouts of epilepsy. She sank to her knees and prayed no well-meaning good Samaritan came to her aid and touched her. That always triggered a vision.
The aftertaste of tin in her mouth, yet another warning sign of an impending seizure, made her teeth ache and her stomach test her throat. Through the dark void she could see a hand reached out to her and the warmth of the man’s touch on her arm. Noooo! With that last thought, she rolled to the ground, her body contorting in a flood of electrons gone haywire. Almost passed out, she couldn’t stop the vision. She was no longer in control.
A wide spotted paw swept down her shoulder. The big cat laying beside her was no domesticated pet, and yet his actions seemed harmless, even concerned. He nuzzled her ear, licking the side of her face—tenderizing her like a slab of raw meat? She hoped not.
She couldn’t move her arms or her legs and could only watch in shock as the leopard blurred, reforming into the shape of a man.
