PROM NIGHTS FROM HELL – Paranormal prom stories by five extraordinary authors – Meg Cabot / Kim Harrison / Michele Jaffe / Stephenie Meyer / Lauren Myracle

« But I know he’s here. I can feel him. »

« I mean, the guy looks like he walked straight out of an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog or something. You can’t trust a guy who’s that, well, perfect. »

« And okay, she’s never been the shiniest fork in the drawer. »

« What I don’t know about girls could fill the East River. »

« It doesn’t seem to occur to him that the last thing a guy my age is likely to be doing in a girl’s bedroom at two in the morning is homework. »

The Exterminator’s Daughter – Meg Cabot

« His laugh made me think of dead leaves. »

« My question had been a conversation opener. »

« Desperate for a heart-stopping romance, no matter the cost ? »

« My grief was my own, a skeleton that would rattle forever within me. »

The Corsage – Lauren Myracle

« ‘My apologies’ he said, taking my hand, and my breath caught, not because he was touching me, but because his accent wasn’t Midwestern. Sort of a slow, soft exhalation laced with a crisp preciseness that told of taste and sophistication. I could almost hear the clink of crystal and soft laughter in it, the comforting sounds that more often than not had lulled me to sleep as the waves pushed on the beach. »

Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper – Kim Harrison

« He hit her with one of his half smiles, too cool to pull out a big grin. »

« Miranda wondered if everyone had a voice in their head permanently set to the U-Suck channel. »

« Because I know what it’s like to be far from home, alone, trying to fit in. And to never be able to tell anyone the truth abut who you are »

Kiss and Tell – Michele Jaffe

« Is there some kind of girl-law that demands they spend a certain percentage of every event in the bathroom together ? »

« She was a walking contradiction in more ways than height – both dark and light with her inky hair and chalky skin, both delicate and hard with her tiny, sharp features, and both inviting and repellent with the mesmerizing undulations of her body under the hostile expression on her face.

Only one thing about her was not ambiguous – her dress was, without question, a work of art : Bright red tongues of leather flame bared her pale shoulders and licked down her willowy curves until they kissed the floor. As she crossed the dance floor, female eyes followed the pathway of the dress with envy and male eyes followed it with lust. 

There was another phenomenon that followed her ; as the girl in the fiery dress passed through the dancers, little gasps of horror and pain and embarassment rippled out from around her in strange eddies that could only be coincidence. A high heel cracked, twisting the ankle inside it. A satin dress split along a seam from thigh to waist. A contact lens popped out and was lost on the dirty floor. A vital bra strap snapped in two. A wallet slipped from a pocket. An unexpected cramp announced an early period. A borrowed necklace scattered in a shower of pearls to the floor. »

Hell on Earth – Stephenie Meyer

PROM NIGHTS FROM HELL – Paranormal prom stories by five extraordinary authors – Meg Cabot / Kim Harrison / Michele Jaffe / Stephenie Meyer / Lauren Myracle