Grace Johnson

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“The Smell of Death” by Grace Johnson

Submitted to Contest #61

Formaldehyde. It was no lie to say that it stank—even someone lacking their sense of smell could detect it. The pain, searing the back of one’s eyelids and scorching their throat, stinging their nostrils even as they flared wider. The other sensations—the dizzying weakness, the oppressive weight, the foreboding. It was the smell of death, and well Avery Winston knew it. Fifteen years as a forensic nurse, a long childhood as the daughter of a mortician—or, as her father was more commonly known, “Dr. Dead”—and countless visits to the funeral ...

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Words are the air I breathe. (Air? Who needs air anyway? Bah!) From betwixt the covers of my favorite childhood classics to within my own swashbuckling romances, words have always held a certain appeal. Of course, it's taken me some time to realize just what I can do with those words, but now that I have, I'm taking full advantage! I've self-published two novels, a novella, and two short stories through KDP, and I'm continually expanding my repertoire as time goes on.