Wily Writers Presents Tales of Foreboding (ePub)

You know that feeling.

Foreboding-the feeling that bad, or evil, awaits you at some point in your future, distant or near.

It's like a pressure at the back of your brain, a whisper that it can all go terribly wrong. The sense of foreboding reminds us the bad is coming-but we don't know exactly when.

Here are 14 tales where evil is nosing the cracks and crevices in the lives of the unsuspecting, searching for a way in and ready to wreak havoc. But these are no ordinary sufferings and miseries: cults, mythical forest creatures, elder gods, psychic powers, murder, parallel universes, monsters, death, nature gone awry, zombies, ghosts, and, yes, husbands. In these 14 tales, things just don't bode well:

• In Lisa Morton's "High Desert," abandoned in the desert one woman learns the hard way that some spines pierce deeper than others.
• Nature figures out how to take a sinister upper hand in Bill Bodden's "When to Let Go."
• "Coffin" by Alison J. McKenzie asks the question 'can you exist without being alive?'
• Jennifer Brozek explores the difficulty, and danger, of trying to understand one's own mind in "A Test of Vigilance and Will."
• In "Jenny" by Lee Call, curiosity and love possess their own perils, but when they cross paths...
• Yvonne Navarro's "Meet Me On the Other Side" delves into an alternate world and explores love and sacrifice in the face of an impending apocalypse and libidinous beasts.
• Which is worse-a natural disaster, a monster, or a husband-is the question at the heart of Allie Yohn's "In the Very Air You Breathe."
• Chris Marrs, in "Frostlings," gives us the definitive answer about family and love-and mythical creatures.
• In "Still Life With Shattered Glass," Loren Rhoads exposes a morbid hobby, and where it leads.
• Joan De La Haye's "Getting Rid of Charlie" examines that father-daughter bonding time is very important-and can come in an aberrant form.
• In "A Spectacle of a Man" by Weston Ochse, one man finds that better living can come from the Elder Gods, but it's not going to be pretty.
• "Purgatory" by Angel Leigh McCoy warns us how one mistake can last forever and forever and forever...
• S.G Browne's "Lower Slaughter" reveals how thin the veneer of reality is-and that making the bus on time is crucial.
• E.S. Magill's "Los Necrocorridos" proves that love can exist in the most horrific conditions, even in the zombie apocalypse.