Ordinary Delusions - Short Horror Story Sample
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Complete, First published Nov 03, 2022
Mature
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.
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The Hound

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Antique store owner Liz brings home a Victorian taxidermy hound from auction, unwittingly unleashing dark forces on her wife and son. ***** Nat Loman has finally married the love of her life, Liz, and is getting used to her role as stepmother to Liz's 5-year-old son, Liam. The Loman family runs a bustling antique business so they attend a sale where a striking, black taxidermied hound is up for auction. Liz picks it up for the business, but it ends up being stored in their home, where Nat notices strange things occurring. She quickly discovers the past residents had died violently. Then she hears from a friend about the myth of "the devil's dog", a hound that perches in the shadows, tearing families apart from the inside. Soon, people around the Lomans are dying, and Liz is changing, darkening. It's up to Nat to save the woman she loves from the darkness closing in, and to save Liam from danger no matter what she has to sacrifice. [[Winner of the 2018 Wattys "Hidden Gems" category]] [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]