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.
Alex worked as a repairman for playtime co but after slowly piecing the orphans dissaparing and the new bigger body's coming in he left playtime co and quit but he got something from playtime co 10 years later he gets a letter saying that the employees are still there and decided to go a see what has happened to the employees but also to rebuild playtime co as the corporation he thought it was before he found out its secrets also warnings will be in the parts they are in