Description
The Mental Shrillness ward will shock you with six twist ending horror tales:
"Memorial
Day Descent" - experience a showdown between an old mansion and a
soldier's painful, recurring war memories. A first place story contest
winner.
"Pains in the Glass" - Tim and Wanda love each other but
neither sees the cracks in their flawed marriage looking glass. Today is
the day one learns of betrayal so powerful that it will shatter, cut
and bleed the other to pieces.
"Dead Warmed Over" - learn if it's
possible that a tortured man can love his wife too much. Ben's intense
love for wife Jackie is realized in a haunted bathtub. Another first
place story contest winner.
"Falling the Bobbitt Way" - Tracy and
John's sweet marriage vow warps into sinister sadomasochism. Find out
if they can break the vow and ever be the same.
"Dueling Eyes" -
GAZE upon an unmoving glass eye compelling its host to entertain
self-mutilation tendencies. WATCH as Madison tries to save Killroy in
the dark, dirty alley from the glint of a malevolent mugger's blade.
STARE helpless as the cold steel and the glass eye attempt to complete a
shocking mission.
"The Illusion" - There are things Damon Brooks
wishes he could change about his life. He thinks he has it bad until a
dying, misshapen creature shows him that the other side wants much more
to change their deaths. Prepare for a nightmarish struggle at a carnival
between good and evil.
At the end of Mental Shrillness author
notes are provided for readers interested in each story's history and
what motivated author Todd Russell to pen these strange, dark
tales.