Lexxie Scott Books

*I work in a hospital as a Security Officer. One of our many and varied duties is maintaining the morgue. That is to say, we sign the deceased in and release them to the correct funeral home when the family makes their wishes known. I think that almost anyone knows hospitals are haunted. There are certain areas that are more apt for paranormal activity than others. The morgue is one of them. I was walking back to the office one morning and started wondering what the ghostly point of view is. Since I can't ask them, I came up with this.* Given the topics of the previous two novellas and some of my other works, I think it's fairly obvious I believe in ghosts. We'll go into a much deeper discussion during one of the series, but I do believe and have seen two - and possibly a ghost cat. I'm still not certain about that last one, but my cat (the only animal in the house) was with me when I saw the shape move. Our morgue really doesn't have a haunted feel to it. The...

For this novella each entry is one short story, and they aren't too in-depth because it's hard to talk a lot about short stories without giving away the whole story. Each entry will begin with my author notes about the story and then have my discussion for the blog. *I'm an anime fan. one of those that I was fond of, and am sorely out of touch with, is Naruto. I was watching and episode when Sauske went missing from his hospital room. The nurse ran right to the wardrobe and looked inside. While I know she was checking for his clothes, at the time it struck me that she thought he was hiding in the wardrobe. That bore a fan fiction piece that I was never happy with, so I pulled the bare bones of my idea, left the TV characters behind, and created this story. While I know the events are highly improbable, you never know what's going to happen when dispatch call you.* This piece is so tongue in cheek I'm honestly surprised there is any dialogue. Growing up, and to...

A few comments on pronunciations / short-hand we use at the hospital  for a couple of units and a habit for the floors that I've used in the book. SICU - Surgical Intensive Care Unit. We (Security) call it sick-u. PACU - Post-Op or Post Anesthesia Care Unit. We call it pack-u. On the floors it's a habit to drop the floor specific number, so 453 simply becomes 53 whenever we are on that floor. It's simply because staff assigned to that floor don't care what's happening (within reason, or course) on other floors. This book has next to no research involved in it and quite a lot of the ghosts and experiences for the characters are made up. The exceptions are the ghost on the third floor of the north tower and the ghosts and feelings in the education building. Those are from my experiences. In fact, the education building has one area that was so uncomfortable for me to walk through early in the morning on the weekend - when everything is closed down and it's...

(From my author note) Story time guys. I work in a hospital as a security officer. It's harder than people think it is, and one of our jobs is maintaining the morgue. Talk about a hard one and no one warns you about it during the interview process. Anyway, my lieutenant (at the time) took me up to our closed north wing on the second floor because I'd never been in there before. It looks like something from the 60s and there are locks on all the doors. Just out of curiosity, I opened the door to room 214 and looked inside and was hit by one of the most negative waves of energy I think I've ever felt in my life. I backed out quick and relocked the door. Then it was my turn to take a new officer onto the floor and the whole place felt negative, like something wanted us out of there. (end note) That officer I took up had some paranormal experiences up in New York and was a believer. He told me a story about a patrol up on the second floor one night shift. After using the rest...