Category: Horror Publisher: N.R. Allen
ISBN-10: B0083J6ZS6
Type: Fiction
Pages: 19
Copyright: May 14, 2012
ISBN-13: 2940033255436
It's time to turn out the light and step into the darkness.
This collection of five flash fiction stories invites you to turn off the lights and step into the darkness as . . .
. . . a robber finds out that there's more to Hell than the devil and pitchforks.
. . . a young woman is about to stumble on a painting's dark secret.
. . . an old woman is about to see that the afterlife isn't everything she thought it would be.
. . . a man trying to survive as the world teeters on an apocalypse is trapped between the world he can't leave behind and the one he's so desperate to find.
. . . a young man is about realize that everyone has a darker side and that dark side is always hungry . . .
Excerpt
Sitting up on the table, I notice the jack-o-lantern next to me. It's one of the few things I ever did with my father. It's our ritual. Yellow candlelight fills its triangle eyes and leaks out its jagged mouth.
". . . once you open that door . . . once you give into that hunger . . . "
The girl tonight was nineteen and a year older than me. She fought and she cried.
". . . hunger . . . in the end, we got to remember that everything's hungry."
Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h
