October 18-24 is Teen Read Week! Sponsored by YALSA, this year's theme is Read Beyond Reality @ your library, which encourages teens to read something out of this world, just for the fun of it.Here are a few "beyond reality" musings from YA Author Laura Wiess:
What is the strangest thing you have ever seen?
Stranger than large, hairy men strolling the beach wearing nothing but Speedos, black socks and sandals? Sorry. That was an old summer flashback. But even my lone brush with the supernatural still kind of pales in comparison.
Have you ever encountered a ghost?
Well…I don't think of it as a ghost, exactly. More like a leftover imprint in time. But yes, I have.
About fifteen years ago, I was living in an old farmhouse in New Jersey, home alone writing in the studio off the living room, and I wanted fresh coffee. So I got up and totally preoccupied, walked through the living room and as I entered the kitchen (still lost in thought), I glanced down the hall leading to the back door.
There, standing inside and next to the door was a tall, thin old man wearing a plaid hunting shirt and a pair of old, worn-looking gray work pants.
I looked away and just kept walking, thinking distractedly, Oh, there's an old man by the door, and then skidded to a stop and was like What?? So I backed up three steps and looked again, and of course there was nothing there.
I waited a moment to see if I felt anything, but no. No chill, no threat, no ghostly whispers. I made sure the door was still locked – it was – and then I just started laughing because it was so cool. He was a stranger, maybe a hobo who'd stopped for food once a long time ago, maybe a former occupant. I have no idea, but I'd never seen him before, and never did again.
UFO?
No, I can't even manage to catch sight of a shooting star, despite the night sky being full of them here.
Other?
Not yet, but I'm pretty open to whatever comes along. (Even if nothing ever does.)
You wish you could:
Twitch my nose like Bewitched with the same grand spectrum of results. Oh, what a time I would have!
Which Beyond Reality character would you want to have dinner with?
I have two, both from A.M. Jenkins' novel Night Road. Cole, the main character, because he endlessly fascinates me, and Sandor because I think he'd be great to hang out with. I'd love to hear more of the stories of their lives.
Where would you go? What would you eat?
We'd need to be able to relax, talk freely and just hang around with nobody giving us dirty looks for hogging the table, so maybe an empty park with picnic tables in the shade. I'd bring deli food and coffee, but they would either have to feed before we met up or bring a Building omni along for a snack because my blood is definitely not on the menu.
In ten words or less, what is the most "Beyond Reality" thing in your newest book?
A secret past is invisible, unless it's deliberately revealed.
Laura Wiess is the author of Such a Pretty Girl, Leftovers, and the recently-released How It Ends. For more information, visit http://www.laurawiess.com/.
Thanks, Laura!
Your turn--have YOU ever seen a ghost?
3 comments:
I've never seen a ghost but once a saw a water-spout on a lake in Alaska. Me and my friend were standing on an old dock, getting ready to take a swim. We had been swimming in this lake hundreds of times.
On this day we were standing on the dock. We always had to psych ourselves up because the water was so cold. Anyway, at the far end of the lake a funnel cloud of water rose like twenty feet into air. The tornado of water whipped its way across a corner of the lake and then disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. I felt like I had seen a ghost. I guess they're pretty rare.
nyway, at the far end of the lake a funnel cloud of water rose like twenty feet into air.
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