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NEXT FEATURED STORY DROPS 02.03.22
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Winter '22 Featured Story #2
"Day & Night"
As I mentioned in my recent Delusions blog post, I plan on offering 3 featured stories for each season of the year. For the second installment of Winter 2022, I'd like to share a piece of flash fiction originally published by Fashion for Collapse. I hope you enjoy!
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New Blog!
Introducing:
Delusions
Along with the new website comes a new blog. It was a tough call, but ultimately, I decided it was finally time for The Forbidden Blog to go. Don't fret - some of the classics will be reposted in the blog.
The new blog, which I'm calling "Delusions," will have more brief updates, stories - and I'm working on making it a little more interactive, too...
The new blog, which I'm calling "Delusions," will have more brief updates, stories - and I'm working on making it a little more interactive, too...
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Short Story Collection
No-Injury Policy
The citizens of Chase County will do anything to make sure they survive. No-Injury Policy explores the dark depths of human nature when social pressures peak.
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I sat down with my Kindle and lost myself in a world of deep despair, twisted humanity, and basically hell-on-earth. I became totally immersed in these tales and continued to turn the page, waiting to see what kind horror was contained in the next story.
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Free No-Injury Policy Story
"Façade"
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Trying to decide if No-Injury Policy is the short story collection for you? Here's a free full-length story to help you out. It's a tale about two brothers trying to cope with the loss of their mother and avoid their darker impulses.
SNIPPET
Nauseating strobes flash through the packed night club and break everyone down into static. My head spins as I try to focus on a blurred blond woman across from me on a curved leather bench. I watch her tap her neon-painted fingernails along the table.
With one hand running along the side of my head, she makes me recoil even before she flashes her cracked grin. This ghost of a woman digs her nails into her face and peels down her flesh. Rather than cartilage or tissue, underneath her skin is a deep blackness with only her eyes and bone structure to reveal.
Some sudden change in motion, I’m to my feet and stumbling backwards across the sticky floor, which is resonant of a good time gone wrong. She stays in her seat, sipping on an Amaretto Sour. She sets her drink on the table and lets the liquid run along her jawbone and out of her throat. Rummaging through her handbag, the blond woman pulls out a pocket mirror and turns it at me.
Her sharp nails clench my wrist and pull me closer, until I can see my flection in the mirror. From my forehead to the bridge of my nose , my flesh melts away, developing into a dark abyss much like hers.
With one hand running along the side of my head, she makes me recoil even before she flashes her cracked grin. This ghost of a woman digs her nails into her face and peels down her flesh. Rather than cartilage or tissue, underneath her skin is a deep blackness with only her eyes and bone structure to reveal.
Some sudden change in motion, I’m to my feet and stumbling backwards across the sticky floor, which is resonant of a good time gone wrong. She stays in her seat, sipping on an Amaretto Sour. She sets her drink on the table and lets the liquid run along her jawbone and out of her throat. Rummaging through her handbag, the blond woman pulls out a pocket mirror and turns it at me.
Her sharp nails clench my wrist and pull me closer, until I can see my flection in the mirror. From my forehead to the bridge of my nose , my flesh melts away, developing into a dark abyss much like hers.
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Praise for No-Injury Policy
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I sat down with my Kindle and lost myself in a world of deep despair, twisted humanity, and basically hell-on-earth. I became totally immersed in these tales and continued to turn the page, waiting to see what kind horror was contained in the next story.
PJ Carroll
Reviewer / Lytherus
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