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    The Hanging
    The Hanging
    The Hanging
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    The Hanging

    By Lizz Dimercurio

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    This is the first book in a series of book. It has adult language and some mild violence. The series is about two factions who are battling to accumulate the 30 pieces of silver Judas received to betray Jesus. Judas is the leader of a group of vampires who want the silver to set things right in the universe. The second group, the Silver Hunters, is comprised of men and women who have been exposed to the silver and gained near-immortality and special powers. They want the silver to control the universe. The books are short, but are released every 3-6 months instead of every year. It isn't necessary to start at the first book, as they can be enjoyed stand-alone as well.
    The Hanging starts with Kim having a dream about a man being hanged in the late 1800s in San Diego. Her cat Jingles, knocks jewelry box off the refrigerator and it breaks. She and her roommate, Simon, discover an old journal and a silver necklace. Kim wears the necklace. Simon starts reading the journal
    Kim is saved from a strange apparition by a Buddhist monk who calls himself Frank. Frank tells Kim he is there because of her dream. She is unconvinced until a strange occurrence in her house. Kim, Simon, Frank and Jingles pile into Simon’s car and head to San Diego. Following them is Simon’s mother Suzy, who is an overbearing worry-wart that always butts into Simon’s life. Also following them are two vampires dressed as cowboys, named Will and Pat. They turn out to be Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and vampires.
    The journal is the diary of Thomas Whaley, one of the founders of San Diego. Whaley built his house over the spot where they hanged a convicted rowboat thief. The journal explains why. At the end of the journal is a grimoire that Frank wants to use to banish the demon of San Diego. He purports that the men chasing them want to do the opposite.
    This book’s action is about a demon and which group is going to get to him first, but there is also historical accuracy. There really was a Thomas Whaley who really did build his house over the spot of a hanging. They give tours of the Whaley House in Old Town San Diego, and it is purported to be one of the most haunted houses in America.
    There are also historical anecdotes that led me to write the vampires as Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. The Billy the Kid mythology is well-known. His body was never shown and many believe Pat Garrett didn't really kill him. Less known, is the story of a man at a bar in Tombstone, Arizona, who was shot over an argument in which he insisted he should be called Billy the Kid (this was a month after Billy the Kid was supposedly shot by Garrett). This Billy was taken to the doctor's house where he lingered for hours before dying. His body also was never shown.
    Pat Garrett was shot by a neighbor over a dispute about something or someone killing the neighbor’s sheep. A special coffin had to be shipped in from the east. The reason given was that Garrett was such a large man, one had to be special ordered.
    The book was fun to research and write, and I hope the reader enjoys it even more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLizz Dimercurio
    Release dateApr 23, 2013
    ISBN9781301001101
    The Hanging
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    Lizz Dimercurio

    Lizz wrote her first book when she was six. It was about aliens. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona and is working on completing her current writing projects while having 3 dogs, 2 cats, and a 6 year old boy bounce around the house.

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      The Hanging - Lizz Dimercurio

      The Hanging

      By Elizabeth Dimercurio

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      Text copyright © 2012 Elizabeth Dimercurio

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      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter 1:Jingles the Cat

      Chapter 2: The Journal

      Chapter 3: Nick & Suzy

      Chapter 4: The Monk

      Chapter 5: Simon's Dream

      Chapter 6: Onlookers

      Chapter 7: Simon Meets the Monk

      Chapter 8: Suzy & Nick

      Chapter 9: The Monk's Dream

      Chapter 10: Onlookers

      Chapter 11: Follow the Leader

      Chapter 12: On the Run

      Chapter 13: Simon & the Onlookers

      Chapter 14: The Journal

      Chapter 15: Nick Joins the Fray

      Chapter 16: The Casino

      Chapter 17: Simon and the Journal

      Chapter 18: Suzy Catches Up

      Chapter 19: Vampires Come Knocking

      Chapter 20: Confrontation

      Chapter 21: Fighting the Demon

      Prologue

      You will all regret this... The man's beard was long and matted, so dirty it was impossible to know the true color. His wool pants may have been a confederate grey at one time, but now were so full of mud and dirt that they looked as if they had been stolen from a buried corpse. A tattered linen shirt that could never be clean again hung from his shoulders in defeat. It was difficult to imagine the shirt had ever been a crisp red, especially when looking at the torn sleeves where his dirty hands were tied together poking out behind his back, their nails long and yellow, scratching uselessly at a heavy metal chain that held them. A thick long rope was wrapped around the tree branch above his head; the other end rested patiently in a circle around his neck. ...especially you. He stared directly at Kim.

      Every witness here, as well as your offspring and their offspring will suffer. I promise this. The man continued talking, but Kim could only see his lips moving, the audio feature of her dream seemed to suddenly be on mute. She tried to move and view the scene from a different perspective and found herself above the crowd, as if looking from a hot air balloon that was still tethered to the ground.

      There were about one hundred people. Women, children, and men stood together dressed in clothing that appeared to be old western. The few darker-skinned men and women, perhaps Mexican or natives stood behind the rest of the crowd in a tightly-knitted group. Unlike the white people, they had no children or food with them.

      Kim knew that a hanging in the old west was regarded for many of the time as entertainment, with the women bringing along picnic baskets and vendors selling items such as rosaries. She saw the baskets of food, but the onlookers didn't appear to be as festive. No one was speaking, either to the man or to each other.

      Her feet were suddenly planted on the ground at her original vantage point and the volume instantly turned back on. Kim heard seagulls in the background, but could not make out what the condemned man was saying, an occasional word burst like a bubble in front of her, but made no sense, ...malkuth...yod eh...

      She felt someone brush aside her as he hurried up to the front. Don't let him finish! The panicked man grabbed the reins of the large bay horse attached to the wagon the prisoner was standing on and smacked them furiously against the huge beast's flank. The horse startled and jumped forward, dragging the wagon quickly out from under the feet of the condemned man.

      Kim watched in horror as the man swung back and forth. The horror was shared by others in the crowd as the realization began to spread that the criminal's neck had not broken. He was still choking out words as his face turned purple with his eyes bulging out. The man who had startled the horse gaped in frustration. He turned to Kim and spoke to her directly, Who are you?

      The atmosphere wavered around her like the heat from a car engine that had just been turned off. The scene didn't gradually fade, it instantly ceased to be.

      Kim rolled over and sighed in her sleep, unaware that her cat Jingles was curled up around her pillow, staring into the space above her head.

      Chapter 1 Jingles the Cat

      Kim struggled to wake up. She couldn't breathe. Her mouth felt dry and full of cotton. She opened her eyes, wondering if she was having her first asthma attack at the age of twenty-four. All she could see was grey fuzz. Her protesting scream came out as a muffled honk.

      Jingles! Get off of me... she heaved eighteen pounds of Maine Coon cat off of her chest and suddenly she could catch a clear breath. It's enough to give a girl a nightmare.

      Kim remembered her dream, the one she had been having two or three times a week since her grandmother died two months before. She had grown up at her grandmother's house where she and her parents had moved when she was two. Ostensibly, it was so that her parents could keep an eye on her grandmother. Realistically, it was because her dad had fallen off a motorcycle and injured his back and it was difficult for him to work. Hospital bills, pain killers, and whiskey had formed a marriage-killing combination and her father left when she was ten. Her grandmother taught Kim how to bake a banana cream pie to celebrate.

      When Kim had nightmares, some more real than others, her grandmother helped her tell the difference between ones to pay attention to and ones that were harmless. She taught her that dreams that repeated were the ones to pay attention to.

      When Kim was twelve she got up one morning and called the paramedics to go over to her dad's house because he was having an overdose of a mix of prescribed pain killers, over-the-counter sleep medicine, and alcohol. They arrived in time and her dad lived. She had been dreaming about it

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