Windwood Farm (Taryn's Camera) by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

Author:Rebecca Patrick-Howard [Patrick-Howard, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mistletoe Press
Published: 2014-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

Long after she’d hung up the phone and settled down into her red flannel nightgown, picked up at some secondhand store along the way because she always shopped cheap and always froze to death no matter where she stayed, she let her mind drift back to the first time she really knew something wasn’t right.

Obviously, the pictures of Windwood Farm startled her. Who wouldn’t be taken aback by them? She wasn’t crazy. She’d about had a heart attack when she’d seen them pop up on her computer screen and she’d looked at them a hundred times since then, going over their details. And she’d taken even more since the first day, although her images since then had all been normal.

But Matt knew her truth, her real truth.

This wasn’t the first time something had happened.

When Taryn was six and still living in Nashville, she’d lived in a perfectly normal subdivision on the west side of town. New houses were being built and the kids in her neighborhood liked to play in them, despite the fact their parents told them to stay out of them. Back in those days, it was perfectly safe to ride your bikes after dark, even in her neighborhood in Nashville. It felt more like a small town back then and everyone watched out for each other and she played with a group of kids that felt like a posse. They stayed out together until suppertime until someone stepped out on their front porch and cried for a kid to come in to eat and they all scattered. It was never one of her parents, but she’d always scatter with the rest of them, never wanting to stay out by herself.

One evening, a new kid joined the posse. He was skinny with dark hair and dark eyes and glasses. A head taller than the rest of them, the others made fun of him because he instantly started talking about the solar system and bugs. He introduced himself as Matt. She liked him immediately and felt a kinship with him but wasn’t sure why. When the others wanted to pick on him, she threatened to beat them up, even though she was nearly a foot shorter and a grade below most of them.

A family had just moved out of a house on the street and the front door was standing wide open. It was a big house and this was a change. Normally, they explored houses that were just being built, but this one was different: it was already finished. Why not explore it? Taryn wasn’t sure. After all, wasn’t that more like breaking into it? It had a roof and everything. Matt felt the same way, but it was his first day in the neighborhood and he wanted to fit in.

Giving in to everyone else, and not wanting to ruin his chances at making new friends, he talked Taryn into going along with the gang. Silently, the ten of them crept into the foyer and sneaked through the rooms.

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