[stylist] question about word usage

[Barbara Hammel]

I guess if you don't like spooked, you could use mystified.  Spooked gives 
me a sense of fear about the strangeness of not seeing him.  Mystified is 
more wondering.
Barbara

...
Yesterday is
A path well-trod,
A familiar lane
Through sacred sod,
A road we travel
Too often, I fear,
For there are the good times
When things are hard here,
...

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From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 7:37 PM
To: "Stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [stylist] question about word usage

> Here is a section from my novel "The Letter."  I use the phrase "Totally 
> spooked" and wonder if there is something more appropriate that I should 
> be using.  Any help would be most appreciated.  Thanks, Judith
>
> On her way to the car Sheila thought about the little book with an 
> inserted paper delivered a few months earlier by a strange man.  He had 
> said, "Mrs. Hamilton, I'm a lawyer representing a family that perished in 
> the holocaust.  This little packet containing a small book and paper were 
> given to me to deliver to you for Jennifer Rabinowitz.  They are left by 
> her parents.  It should be presented to her on her seventeenth birthday. 
> Please don't tell Jennifer or your husband about this meeting.  A good day 
> to you."  The man left the house and she ran to the front window to watch 
> him drive away.  But no car appeared on the driveway or street.  There was 
> no man walking away from the house.  Totally spooked, she ran to her 
> bedroom without looking at the little packet and placed it with other 
> papers in her dresser.
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