Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-4893169-20150627030850/@comment-24101790-20150701215251

Minor issues first:

"What happened (Happened) Before" As it's a title.

Spacing issues: "...quit that,‭"‬said", "‭"‬Okay,‭"‬muttered Kes,‭ ‬giving up.‭ "

Wording: "Miss Tabitha gave a little mew of disapprove (disapproval)"

Of course,‭ ‬she thought,‭ ‬with that smell and the cats sleeping on me,‭ ‬it's no wonder I dreamed of skunks chasing me. (I would put the thoughts in quotations to separate them from emphasized words.)

The accent wasn't too bad, I understood it without being thrown too much by it. Although that can be a matter of opinion with other readers. If you feel like you might trip some people up with it, stick to standard English, but I will say that I didn't have too much trouble understanding it being written phonetically and there isn't too much dialogue with her that might cause exhaustion amongst the readers.

You did a good job building up the house's history, just make sure that pays off later in the story so it doesn't seem like a bit of extraneous information. Other than that, this is simply a matter of preference, but I typically try to use one quote at the start of a story as multiple ones may clutter up the introduction. (They can be spread out to other chapters and the most applicable can be used as the intro/outro for the chapter.) It was well-written and I'm interested to see where this story goes.