Playing with Fire- Anthology of Horror

237 Pages·2016·0.83 MB·English

by  Russell Coral

Playing with Fire
Coral Russell
Published: 2011
Tag(s): ghost supernatural monsters "ghost hunters" magic horror paranormal
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Welcome to
"https://sites.google.com/site/playingwithfirehorror/">Playing with
Fire, anthology of horror, volume I.
Scare easily?Are you often frightened out of your sleep? Does the
mere mention of ghosts prickle your skin?
These seven author's imaginations are fired up by the scariness of
the unknown.
Find a comfy spot, sit back and enjoy nine tales to tickle your
taste for terror.
Table of Contents
Susan Evelyn – Best Served
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Revenge is sweet they say. But is Anna going to be able to hold the
right ones accountable?
3197 Words
Robynn Gabel – Widows of the Night
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Step inside a child’s world that is filled with monsters. In her
struggle to search for and figure out what love is she will
discover what a monster really is.
3375 WORDS
Nomar Knight - Bitten
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Rob Compton is unemployed and on the verge of getting a divorce
when his pet German Shepherd, Shotgun, comes home intent on having
him for lunch. Once bitten, Rob decides to show his wife what
'death do us part' really means.
2937 Words
CAV Laster – Playing with Fire
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During what seems to be the end of the world for others, Kalen
discovers his has only begun. Appalling secrets unravel his world
and force him to fight for his survival. Will Kalen be able to
handle the truth?
5285 words
Coral Russell – Devil of a Ghost Tour
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hl=en_US#b.4">
Lynn and Lee Hoyt decide a local ghost tour would be a
fun date night. In an abandoned hotel on the tour, a demon and
his minions have been waiting for just the right couple to come
along. Can the ghost hunters, Hector and Marcos, save them before
it's too late?
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Coral Russell – Key to a Haunting
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Allen has lost everything, when his father gives him a downtown
building to renovate. Trouble is, it's haunted. He calls in the
Paranormal Posse to help, but can Hector and Marcos learn the truth
in time to finally put the dead to rest?
9824 Words
Coral Russell – Amador Lockdown (excerpt)
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Something has moved into the Amador Hotel and is wrecking havoc
with anyone who tries to stay. Hector, Marcos, Bev, and Tony of the
Paranormal Posse are called in to either debunk the stories or get
rid of whatever is causing the problems. Hector's life is an uproar
and while he tries to keep his professional and personal life
separate, whatever is haunting the Amador Hotel has other
plans.
Brian Fatah Steele – Flawed
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When three generations of Gastlins gathered one weekend at a newly
purchased home in 1998, they had no idea it would be their last
reunion. Every family has its secrets, its little faults, but
the skeletons came bursting out of the closets and grew infectious.
Blood may be thicker than water, but it can still spill just
as easily.
4328 WORDS
Brian Fatah Steele – The Stuff Dreams Aren’t Made Of
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When your only hope is to suffer less than the day before, when
misery is a normal state of being, and when atrocities greet all
your senses every day, you only have to find new ways to
dream.
1327 WORDS
Chryse Wymer - This Dark Magic
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Charlie Landers is a reporter for the Capital City Gazette when his
hometown turns deadly. It begins with a blackout, and escalates to
a crime rate so high that it’s a miracle that anybody has lived to
tell about it. Finally, he must do something when not only his life
but the life of a loved one is threatened. In this quirky dark
fantasy, Charlie Landers must navigate a dangerous world of black
magic in order to save his little corner of the universe.
9780 Words
Chryse Wymer – Living with Murder (excerpt)
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Kirk and Mary Miller live a simple life in the year 2035… until
their college-aged son turns up dead. Before long, everything they
thought they knew about their child changes. Their son's murderer
is convicted and jailed, but a year later, The Agency for Privately
Imprisoned Criminals becomes involved. The Agency had been formed
when prison overcrowding grew out of control. It was an agency
meant for non-violent, primarily first-time offenders, in which
criminals can live with their victims or victims' family as part of
their rehabilitation. But John Marks found a loophole in the
system: blackmail. And when a murderer comes to live with you,
anything can happen.
DEDICATIONS and INFORMATION
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Best Served
by
Susan Evelyn
Are they the ones?

Anna observed the clientele in the pub. She had dismissed all but a
few groups around the pool table from the range of possible
suspects.
Are they the ones?
The question echoed through her mind with each fresh observation of
the suspects’ movements and interactions with others. Anna's
natural appearance of physical frailty bound to snap in the first
winter wind made her a perfect target. She waited for one of them
to betray himself and his mates. Nothing could be done until
then.
Ordering a drink provided a reason for being there. She eyed the
strangely colored concoction with some suspicion after having
specifically chosen one garnished with a sprig of parsley. Like the
cocktail with its fancy straw, the place was pretentious and aimed
to attract junior executives and wealthy students with its touches
of opulence.
After toying with the greenery to mask her concentration, Anna
mouthed a single word before eating it. The herb negated the
adverse cumulative effects of alcohol, thus extending her
observation time.
Normally Anna would never consider coming to a place such as this.
Her kind worked in isolation away from the powers and hubris
of peers as much as from the inquisitive eyes of average people.
Actions abhorrent in regular society, let alone those who valued
life as the prime force of the universe, had conspired against such
solitude.
Anna stifled a shudder of revulsion at the memory of recent news
reports. The inclusion of her friend and fellow student among the
several young women who had died recently in this city, brutally