Thanks for the Ride

My short story, Thanks for the Ride, for ages 8-14 is in the October 2021 issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk, edited by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff. This is a contemporary ghost story set in Preston Castle in California. Disabled Leah and her friend Frankie attend a Halloween tour at the castle, but Frankie runs off and disappears. After discovering Frankie’s sugar skull broken on the stairwell, Leah overhears a frightening conversation. To her relief and bewilderment, Frankie turns up on the way home, but something isn’t quite right.