Book: The Damned
Stories: The Drain, The Enforcers, The Fog, On a Spring Day, and The Trial.
ASIN: B0C82RQFSZ
Publication Date: September 23, 2023
Genre: Flash Fiction, Horror
Buy Link: http://books2read.com/DamnedDrabbles
Price: $1.99 ebook (Pre-order price)
Book Blurb:
Bite-sized horror stories are brought to you by thirteen authors. From creepy crawlies to the seemingly normal pets. From hideous monsters lurking in the dark to charismatic people showing their true colors.
Each tale is precisely 100 words and leaves a long-lasting chilling effect. Some will make you question the security of the world around you, and what’s more terrifying than that?
Featuring drabbles from Storm Lomax, Jonathan Reddoch, Zari Hunt, Kellee Kranendonk, Andreas Flögel, Simon Clarke, Jacek Wilkos, Ferenc K. Zoltán, Vanessa Bane, C.L. Hart, Natascha Eschweiler, Angela Zimmerman, and J.E. Feldman.
Pre-Excerpt Information
I wrote this drabble along with 29 others for potential inclusion in The Damned, an anthology of drabbles from Dragon Soul Press. I did not submit this one for potential inclusion. The drabble is ominous but not horrific.
So, why in the world am I sharing it here?
Because there are 2 more weeks until the anthology is published. My contract stipulates that I can't share more than 500 words from the anthology prior to publication. That's all five of my selected stories. So, what in the heck would I share the rest of the time?
The other drabbles that didn't make the cut for this anthology, of course!
Photo by Mo (mo_design_3d) on Unsplash
The Pinnacle
The cabin in sixteen-year-old Shideh O’Floinn’s dream was not user-friendly. Innumerable steep steps carved into a slender peak of white stone led to the confounding cottage. The dream always culminated with Shideh plummeting from the precipice just as she reached the strange edifice. Right before she hit the ground, a gust of wind whispered “thirty-two.”
“It’s a foolish structure,” Shideh told her father as the pair prepared for a climbing expedition. “It’s completely open to the elements. I only ever see one room with a plant, a recliner, a table, and two chairs for visitors. I can’t fathom its implication.”
Notes
I've been aggressively sharing the limited edition Hot and Sticky anthology from Passionate Ink, which will be pulled from publication on October 30th. If you'd like to read excerpts from my (Lil DeVille's) story, The Liberation of Mac MacCarrick, visit the official Naughty Netherworld Press blog.
http://www.naughtynetherworldpress.com
I also want to tell you about an upcoming event where readers can win free books and other good stuff and authors can share their stories. I will be giving away one copy of Hot and Sticky and one copy of The Damned.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/renesgetawaypartyroom
Book: The Damned
Stories: The Drain, The Enforcers, The Fog, On a Spring Day, and The Trial.
ASIN: B0C82RQFSZ
Publication Date: September 23, 2023
Genre: Flash Fiction, Horror
Buy Link: http://books2read.com/DamnedDrabbles
Price: $1.99 ebook (Pre-order price)
Book Blurb:
Bite-sized horror stories are brought to you by thirteen authors. From creepy crawlies to the seemingly normal pets. From hideous monsters lurking in the dark to charismatic people showing their true colors.
Each tale is precisely 100 words and leaves a long-lasting chilling effect. Some will make you question the security of the world around you, and what’s more terrifying than that?
Featuring drabbles from Storm Lomax, Jonathan Reddoch, Zari Hunt, Kellee Kranendonk, Andreas Flögel, Simon Clarke, Jacek Wilkos, Ferenc K. Zoltán, Vanessa Bane, C.L. Hart, Natascha Eschweiler, Angela Zimmerman, and J.E. Feldman.
Pre-Excerpt Information
I wrote this drabble along with 29 others for potential inclusion in The Damned, an anthology of drabbles from Dragon Soul Press. For the first time, you're seeing one of the drabbles that was included in the anthology. Hurray!
You have until September 23 to pre-order your copy of The Damned for $1.99. On the 23rd, the price for the ebook increases to $4.99.
Photo by byMATTER MADE BETTER (bymatter) on Unsplash
The Drain
Professor Vladimir Reed-Field wished he had never taken the job at Miskatonic University. He’d never had problems like this when he was teaching at the University of Hawaii. A volcanic eruption would be a welcome change over the sound coming from that damn kitchen sink.
The plumber from Blizzard Pipeworks could find nothing wrong with the drain. She’d scoped it, snaked it, and performed a full flush. She said that sometimes the plumbing in Arkham’s old houses just made odd noises.
The problem wasn’t the pipes themselves. It was the thing inside the pipes that kept whispering the professor’s name.
Notes
I've been aggressively sharing the limited edition Hot and Sticky anthology from Passionate Ink, which will be pulled from publication on October 30th. If you'd like to read excerpts from my (Lil DeVille's) story, The Liberation of Mac MacCarrick, visit the official Naughty Netherworld Press blog.
http://www.naughtynetherworldpress.com
I also want to tell you about an upcoming event where readers can win free books and other good stuff and authors can share their stories. I will be giving away one copy of Hot and Sticky and one copy of The Damned.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/renesgetawaypartyroom
What a strange dream - but it sounds like they're climbing toward what she dreamed...
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to reading this anthology. I liked the Drain, too. Sometimes flash fiction is exactly what I want to read.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, I fucked up. I always copy the previous week's post to save myself time reformatting a new post and replace the previous week's snippet with the new one. This time readers get both last week's entry and this week's as well.
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