Here is a collection of bizarre and sometimes frightening looks at the psychological make up of ordinary people we might meet at any time. From witches to demons, the horrors of the human mind are an experience only too close to each of us. We like to think we're okay. We tell ourselves it's only a story. But when we lay down at night, when we close our eyes, can we ever be really sure?
In Unhealthy Stories, The Storyteller weaves a tale everyone getting everyone deeply involved. They are caught up in its details to the extent that life merges with the story. Death, too.
In Beneath the Sands, we learn that when time travel is created, the greatest obstacle is not the technology but the attitudes of those traveling back in time. It's different world back there.
In The Treatment, we watch the cure for cancer being discovered on the moon. The whole world rejoices. But where did it come from and why was it introduced into the human population just then?
In Claiming Day, when a young witch comes of age, she has to be aware of the whole world around her and not just the part she has lived in all her life. Nothing prepares anyone for the whole world.
In H, we're reminded that government creations usually are limited to weaponry and hastily hatched plots. But what happens when one of the governments genetically engineered assassins is left to his own devises?
In The Long Winter, everyone sees that our historical, westward expansion had a cost. Everyone knows the price the Indians paid. But no one has ever told the story of the price the settlers incurred.
In My Last Testament, it's apparent some stories can never be told. Too many of the details are lost or completely unknown. But sometimes, knowing the details does not make us any happier.
In The Chasm, there's a place inside a man he never goes. It scares him and he avoids it. What happens when whatever scares him climbs out of that chasm in his mind?
In The Phasing, a genius does not worry about the small details when he is creating his masterpiece. That is for the little people to be concerned with. A genius just keeps creating until...
In Making a Witch, what happens when a priest with an agenda meets a family that doesn't want what he's selling? A battle, of course. But can the church survive what it creates?
Ten stories of the bizarre and horrific to tantalize the discerning mind. Maybe they are crazy. Maybe they just represent what we already realize is all around us every day.
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