From the author of Estate Sale and many other literary nightmares, comes a collection of dark psychological fiction like no other, featuring novelettes and shorter stories that range from horror to suspense to mystery to coming-of-age to thrillers.Smile So Red - a man down on his luck finds a strange graffitied house on his hike, and can't quite seem to leave it behind.Spindel - a twelve-year-old boy suspects that one of the neighbors on his paper route might be a local serial killer and sets off to investigate.Blues for the Soul - a library worker tries to help a troubled young boy and uncovers a terrible truth about his family.Devil's Chord - return to the world of Smile So Red with a meta journey set to the earworm tune of your worst nightmares.Stump - a bullied young boy and a downtrodden family man from the same apartment complex unwittingly find solace in the same area of the local woods, trusting their secrets to the same remnant of an old tree.Flamingos - two sisters must confront their troubled past when a buried memory is triggered by the seemingly innocuous plastic lawn birds.The Trunk - a first-generation immigrant from a war-torn country striving to achieve the American Dream finds something in the basement of his new home that has other ideas for him.Reddest - another return to the world of Smile So Red, albeit from a very different perspective.Go on. Turn the page. Pick a nightmare. I dare you.
