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Billy W. Wells Author
Category:
Horror
Publisher: Billyt Wells
Type: Fiction
Pages: 152
Copyright: 06/19/2014
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
If you are fans of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and horror stories with a plot and a twist ending, look no further. Billy Wells Horror is your ticket to a journey into the macabre if you dare.
The average Amazon review rating on all 22 books of Billy Wells Horror is 4.3!!
Hark! If you don't like horror, please don't choose this book. Heads roll to be sure so why torture yourself.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
NEVERMORE:
A billionaire builds an island paradise for his family to live when the zombie apacalypse has wiped out most of humanity.
ABSOLUTELY NO FISHING:
Two friends from the poor side of town come to fish at Manchester Cove, a luxury community of estates located on a beautiful lake, during the off season. They ignore the sign, Absolutely No Fishing.
THE RECKONING
Two friends are attacked by a grizzly on a camping trip before starting their first jobs after graduating college.
SOMETHING IN THE SKY:
Strange things happen to two college students on Lovers Lane after a meteor cuts a path through a nearby cemetery.
YOU REMEMBER, I’LL FORGET:
A serial killer, who killed thrteen children as a youth, is released after thirty years of rehab in an asylum.
THE ROCK:
A joke backfires when a youth puts his best friend's eye out with a rock after announcing he was going to do it.
THE RIPPER:
An elderly man seeks revenge on gang members who continue to harass him after trick or treaters are given lethal candy on Halloween.
FEELINGS:
A motorist seeks revenge on a TV news reporter whose ambition to be a star caused an accident that takes the life of the man's wife.
POWDERPUFF:
A couple and their dog seek refuge on a desolate mountain when zombies run amok in the city where they lived.
HOMICIDE MAINTENANCE
A detective goes into the homicide cleaning business after he learns about the obscene fees businesses pay for the service.
Excerpt
NEVERMORE
Careful planning made Roland Barnes a billionaire.
Years before the zombie apocalypse had shifted into high gear, he’d bought an island in the Pacific, just in case.
He hired a construction company to build a magnificent home for his family surrounded by a moat stocked with piranhas. Despite its enormous size, the heavy terrain of the island camouflaged the mansion in case a ship with human marauders or rampaging zombies stumbled upon it. Even from the air, the roof looked like part of the dense jungle.
Roland had stocked his home with enough food and supplies to last three lifetimes. Before all the corporations failed, and the federal government collapsed, he also stocked his library with every video game and DVD that existed at the time.
Even after acquiring every entertainment product available, in a few years, Roland and his wife, Lucille, and their two children, Dean and Kelly, grew bored. With nothing other than the same media pastimes to occupy their minds, they adopted the lifestyle of the 1950s.
The family entertained each other by playing games they made up. They ate all their meals together and were as happy as they could be, under the circumstances.
Despite his great wealth, Roland worried that if one of them got sick or injured themselves during the course of their daily activities, he would be helpless to save them. Consequently, he continually reminded them to be extremely careful not to fall or cut themselves carelessly since it could be fatal.
Contact with the outside world ended completely not long after they had taken up residence on the island. The absence of TV when they first arrived was a devastating change for all of them, particularly Dean and Kelly, who were nine and eleven years old then. That gradually changed, and now TV didn't seem as important. At least, that's what they told themselves. Why obsess over something you could do nothing about. It was doubtful there would ever be TV programs again.
Without a miracle, life, as they'd known it, would never be the same again. Even if some scientist did find the cure for the disease that turned the dead into zombies seeking human flesh, how could they distribute it to the survivors. Every government worldwide had collapsed. It was a dog eat dog world now. Every man for himself. Survival of the fittest. Take whatever you can get. Kill or be killed.
Roland and his family had gotten out of the chaos just in time. They knew they could be the only ones on the planet who did not have to deal with the constant threat of unruly mobs and ravenous zombies.
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Five years passed, and boredom increased. Roland was relieved no one had gotten sick or had a medical emergency. Also, no one needed to take prescription drugs except Kelly, who had a hormonal malady. Even before she came to the island, her gynecologist had prescribed birth control pills to provide relief for acne, water retention, and breast tenderness. Her friends chided her about being a nymphomaniac when one of them discovered the pills in her purse at an early age. Now, they were all dead, and probably zombies.
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