Remember May’s Contest? Our friend Bettie Sharpe was one of the finalists with this entry:

In another time and place, they would have been lovers. If they’d met on the street or in a smoky bar some Saturday night, Arden wouldn’t have hesitated to lock his gaze, lick her lips, and move in for the metaphorical kill. But tonight, the kill was all too literal.

He was asleep, but his eyes snapped open when she tightened her garrote. God and the Devil, what a beautiful man! Coal black hair; ice blue eyes; firm lips that she longed to taste before the life went out of him. He even struggled beautifully.

“I’m sorry.” She’d never apologized to a kill before. “I wish things were different.”

His last breath came with a sputter of blood. She kissed his parted lips. He tasted of coppery cold blood, of smoke and whiskey. His heart was motionless beneath her hand, but Arden imagined she felt it beat. She closed her eyes.

And then she was on her back, pinned by the muscled weight of his body. Below his square jaw, the mark of her garrote had healed to a thin pink scar that curved upward toward his ears; a gruesome parallel of the smile that curved his blood-flecked lips.

Apparently, this little bit mobilized her to write a 25000-word novella that she submitted to Samhain. Well, guess what? Bettie’s piece got chosen to be a part of their 2008 Valentine’s Day Anthology, Strangers in The Night. How awesome is that?

CONGRATS, BETTIE!

See what happens when you enter my contests? ::smirks::

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