[QCrit] WHEN IT BLINKS - MG Horror (35k, 1st Attempt)
Hey Pubtips!
I had recently gotten into writing and I wanted to dip my toes in this stuff and thought it would be best to start here! Hopefully you can give me some lovely feedback. Thanks again!
Dear Agent,
WHEN IT BLINKS is a 35k, standalone MG Horror which takes the small town mystery of Tiffany D. Jackson's Blood in the Water and mixes it with the spiritual horror of Lindsay Currie's, Scritch Scratch.
Eleven-year-old Parker hasn't entered her father's office since he was killed six months ago. Everyone in Muskrat Mills agrees it was a random act of violence. Parker did too…until she found his hidden journal.
Called an overly obsessed archeologist, her father spent years studying Old Muskrat Mills, the submerged settlement that stood before the present-day town. And as she sifts through his confusing notes, Parker learns of a terrifying tale about the old town, its riches, and a figure known only as ‘the hoarder’: an insidious spirit said to be willing to part with its vast fortune…for the right price.
With the help of her best friend, Corrine, and local troublemaker, Sam, Parker pieces together a mystery to prove her father was right all along. Fail, and she risks her town suffering a similar, watery fate. But someone—or something—is watching her, desperate to keep the past buried.
And as Parker follows the clues, one warning grows more urgent. A phrase her father scribbled all across the margins of his journal: “When it blinks, don’t blink back.”