[stylist] question about word usage

[Judith Bron]

Thanks, Barbara.  Judith
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From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] question about word usage


>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,
> ...
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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