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Ordinary Delusions - Short Horror Story Sample

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A short horror story sample found in my horror anthology Ordinary Delusions, available on Amazon. This is the story "Nightmarish Waltz" - If you win the lottery, only take the money and not any weird, congratulatory gifts strangers give you.

The full book synopsis and story collection includes:

Wander through ten short tales and witness a fool's paradise, a device that gets one lost in phantasmagorical lands, a government fail its people, and other misfortunes that bring delusions into the ordinary.


Don't Be So Daft - Poor Hal is left to run a graveyard shift at the gas station alone and has to put up with his intrusive thoughts of someone or something coming to get him at any given moment.

Xylo - Of course a discovery of madness has to occur when Lindsey finally accepts to do a wilderness trek with her partner Heather.

Frolic in Night Wind - Two best friends get more than what they bargained for when a night walk of theirs finally has something scary happen.

My Friend Reab - "Lemme just joke about this really devastating thing real quick."

Galvanizing Frisson - You can lead a horse to mineral deposits, but you can't make him act as if things will ever be normal again.

Indignant Echo - "Love thy neighbor as thyself." - Matthew 22:39

Scio-not-phobia - "When you gaze into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Walking Little Sickness - It really sucks when the only thing that destresses you from roommate troubles comes to stress you out even more.

Charlotte's Dread - Cozy house-sitting turns, well, not so cozy.All Rights Reserved

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