Regretfully Invited
Why do left feet keep washing ashore?
Find out the answer to this question and more with this 13 story bundle of creepy, horror micro-stories and flash fiction. Delve into disturbingly haunting quick tales of murder, madness, and mayhem. Contained in a menacing atmosphere where all is not right in the world.
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Flash Fiction
Published: 2016 (86 pages)
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Warning: This fiction book contains dark humour, violence, and coarse language. It is not appropriate for young or sensitive readers.
Table of contents
An overview of the content covered in the book.
1
Double Vision
2
Tubsy & The Trauma of Oz
3
The Grave of Gelert
4
Mary Annette
5
Tinnitus Study 421: Rotary
6
Regretfully Invited
7
Disembodied
8
Dreams of Debbie
9
Eye Eclipse
10
Ladykiller
11
Dad’s Death Bells
12
Covfefe Pie
13
Napkins
What readers said
★★★★
Some of these hooked me so much that I wished they were full length novels.
★★★
If you love being scared senseless, Regretfully Invited: 13 Short Horror Stories may be the perfect book for you.
★★★★
The grim descriptions of each of her characters was just enough. Her writing is simple and concise. It flows very smoothly and is not overly gorey.
FROM THE AUTHOR
Inspiration
These dark plots spring from my overactive imagination. I get ideas from news stories and daily life.
Double Vision
Based on real events, where midnight visitors could be sinister or a quirk of vision.
Tubsy & The Trauma of Oz
Based on real life hideously shocking consequences of letting a girl’s favourite dolly perform in the school play.
The Grave of Gelert
Based on a visit to the real Gelert’s Grave in Wales, a tribute to the memory of when hasty deadly action brought sorrow.
Mary Annette
Based on the most terrifying teleporting real life marionette ever rejected by a child.
Tinnitus Study 421: Rotary
A 50 word flash fiction experiment that inspired the optimistic psychopath Doctor Bell.
Regretfully Invited
When an audiologist knows too much about Doctor Bell’s tinnitus cure experiments, he takes an unorthodox approach to eliminating them as a witness.
Disembodied
Inspired by real events where left feet keep washing ashore in the Pacific Northwest, but police have no idea who they belong to or where they came from.
Dreams of Debbie
Based on real events after the death of a sister, when a dream may be more than a dream.
Eye Eclipse
A father uses a rare solar eclipse for revenge, inspired by real events when a bystander videos a fatal accident instead of trying to save the child.
Ladykiller
Based on nightmares of an alien apocalypse, where oversleeping has deadly consequences.
Dad’s Death Bells
Based on real events after the death of a father, who might have ghosted back to give a murderous message or last good-bye.
Cofveve Pie
A Mom’s desperate plan to prevent her daughter’s wedding by serving the fiancé a “special dessert”, inspired by real events and the mystery of what cofveve means.
Napkins
Inspired by a big brother who decides to take things into his own hands to protect his sister from Mother’s abuse, but things don’t turn out exactly as planned.
Jan L. Mayes 