FUR, FANG & SHADOW
A GRITTY PRESS TRIPLE-SHOT OF FREAKISH BEASTS AND THE HAVOC THEY WREAK
A Trio of Creepy Creature Short Stories:
KIN
Uncle Joe is having a rough week, rough year, rough life. Then he encounters a rare viper under his porch and Joe’s countdown begins.
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
What does the little imp in the tree want? Is he causing the narrator’s life to fall apart? Is he even there?
ROADSIDE ATTRACTION
Orrie the carny won the caged man-beast in a card game. But now he can’t afford to keep him. What to do? Orrie has a solution. So does the beast.
Holy dripping fang, flying furball, and shadowy imp! It’s a Trio of Gritty Press Creepy Creature Short Stories, by award-winning author Matthew P. Mayo, that will claw their way into your brain and nest deep. Might as well break out the cheese and crackers and pop a cold one, ’cause these beasties are here to stay….
Gritty Press, approx. 20 pages, July 2014, eBook
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REVIEWS
“From Matthew P. Mayo comes “Kin,” where a guy attempting to retrieve a football under his porch is instead greeted by the fangs of a poisonous snake. His attempts to drive to the hospital for help as the toxins swim through his bloodstream achieve rollicking, bizarrely comic heights.”