Contents
The Ox-Cart Man
Empty Vessels
Pieces of Lisa
Special Collections
Junk
Billy Boy
Heroism and Hot Dates
Little Fingers
Snow
Uncle Bobby
The Sub-Basement
Daddy’s Touch
Aunt Tessie’s Burden

The voices wove into his skull, wrapped around his neck and pulled at his breath.

At only 88 pages long, I was expecting a bit of horror, a bit of crappy stories, a bit of scare. I must say I did! This was a very short anthology of horror stories collected from different magazines, and every now and then, there’d be a little literary gem just waiting for me.

After I mentioned the bruises, she started wearing long sleeves. Black bags puffed under her eyes. She faded, bleached like a field of snow, pinched together and gaunt, like she wasn’t sleeping much. Maybe a rough boyfriend, I thought..