Today we are participating in the blog tour for Teen Frankenstein! The author, Chandler Baker, has invited some fellow authors on this tour to share some of their highschool horror stories, and today we have a post from Kim Savage, author of AFTER THE WOODS, make sure to go check out more info on her book releasing in February! 🙂
Teen Frankenstein: High School Horror by Chandler Baker Published by Macmillan on January 12th 2016
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Magic, General, Horror & Ghost Stories, Love & Romance, Young Adult
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The end excuses any evil.Tor Frankenstein, Paris High's resident scientific genius, never expected that her long-awaited
I’m not telling the year, but let’s say that everything that year was big. Big hair. Big dresses. Big
important questions like James Spader or Robert Downey Junior? These were the last days of a
mercifully brief period when big Southern Belle dresses underwired with big plastic hoops were
in.
It wasn’t even my prom. I was a date, and just a Junior. I would rectify the disaster-to-come the
following year at my own prom, for which I’d choose a bubble minidress gathered in a pouf at
mid-thigh. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
The event was held at flashy function hall with a big staircase and a big chandelier. My
confection was baby-pink with a lace underlay and tiers held with pink satin ribbons. I was a
Disney princess. I was Scarlett O’Hara. I might have been frosted.
The stairs were horrifically long, maybe one hundred or more, a helix into hell and you had to go
down it. I was an awkward kid. I once broke my femur skating on a six-by-six frozen patch of
ice. I was not accustomed to heels. You can see where this was going.
Tail. Over. Teakettle.
Unfortunately, this was only the beginning of my history of spectacular falls. A few years later, I
would work selling apartments. Describing the merits of the unit as I descended the stairs, I
would tumble—tail over teakettle—and land on my feet at the bottom, reaching to remove my
high heel from where it had impaled the plaster wall. The couple took the apartment. I guess
they felt grateful for giving them the cocktail party story of a lifetime.
The moral of the story is, high-school horror stories might seem devastating at the time. But
eventually, you learn to stick your landing.
About Chandler Baker
Chandler Baker got her start ghostwriting novels for teens and tweens, including installments in a book series that has sold more than 1 million copies. She grew up in Florida, went to college at the University of Pennsylvania and studied law at the University of Texas. She now lives in Austin with her husband. Although she loves spinning tales with a touch of horror, she is a much bigger scaredy-cat than her stories would lead you to believe.
You can find Chandler as the books contributor on the YouTube channel Weird Girls.
| Full Blog Tour Schedule 11-Jan |
Fierce Reads |
| 12-Jan | Good Books and Good Wine |
| 13-Jan | Jana’s Book List |
| 14-Jan | Booki Emoji |
| 15-Jan | Sci Fi Chick |
| 16-Jan | Novel Novice |
| 17-Jan | Word Spelunking |
| 18-Jan | XPresso Reads |
| 19-Jan | Working for the Mandroid |
| 20-Jan | Katie’s Book Blog |
Chandler will be coming by the blogs and checking out comments, if you post one of your own highschool horror stories in the comments below you could be one of the selected winners to win a special prize!!
Eek that was an embarrassing story!! One of my most embarassing moments in high school was when I dropped one of my books down the stairs, bent to pick it up and then all of my stuff came crashing down the stairs as I fell. OOPS.
Awesome post Crystal 🙂 This book do look so interesting. I’m curious about it 😀 Thank you for sharing about it sweetie. <3
High school horror moment……. I showed up to my first high school dance in a party dress. Everyone else was wearing jeans.
Oh, god. My most horrifying moment… I’m cringing just typing this. Let’s just say it was that time of the month, it was a really bad one, and when I got up at the end of class, the chair was stained. And I’m just gonna leave it at that. Thank god I went to an all girls school.
One of my most embarrassing high school moments happened when a few friends and I decided to do a sing and dance number for the talent show. We chose Mariah Carey’s, “Fantasy”, and each had our own solo part. When it was my turn to get on the mic, I panicked and started to laugh loudly and uncontrollably!! I couldn’t even get the words out. It was so humiliating and everyone NEVER let me forget about it, the rest of my high school career.
I had just received my license and a senior boy on the basketball team hit my car in the parking lot (it was my parents’ car) and I was scared to death that I’d be in big trouble–first accident and just a newbie driver!
This was a great book, I enjoyed reading. It’s interesting how everyone can have their own take on a well known story.
My very first day of high school, first I tripped on the last step of the bus and scrapped my forehead on the concert. The. A teacher came over and helped me up and I swear in front of everyone she blurts out, oh now you got on the wrongs bus this is the high school not junior high. 😑 I just hung my head and embarrassingly said I am in the 9th grade…… Yeah there was lots of laughing and pointing :/