30 MIDNIGHTS OF FLASH FICTION

This book is a collection of 30 stories divided into five chaptersall seemingly twisted takes of words/phrases borne out of a suddenly changed world with the prolonged pandemic phenomenon. Thus, Frontliners had been renamed Flatliners (Chapter 1), New Normal has been tweaked into New Paranormal (Chapter 2), and the third, fourth, and fifth chapters are Ghost Mask, Pandora's Box, and Lockup (tweaked from Lockdown), respectively. The current world scenario is a thriller in itself, and this book only desires to put extra thrill into the ride. It is the author's fascination for the strange, the paranormal, the wicked, and the emotionally unsettling that brought to life the 30 storiesall flash fictionmeant to be read one at a time at night, most likely, at midnight.

The flash tales are not necessarily scary, if I may say so, especially if you are tough enough when confronted with ghoulish images right in your faces. But they kind of leave thoughts that may creep through the brain's amygdala, as the narratives abruptly reach their end. Some characters and plot points may have parallels in the real world. This was not intentional except for historical events used merely as subplots to bring the fictional accounts to their proper destinations. Besides, life as we know it, can be bluntly scary and the fiction's motive is to further twist reality to truly serve its literary purpose.

This suspense-filled book will take you down to some roads travelers fear to trek, yet are lured to exploreroads feared by most travelers, and roads leading to a point of no return. The safety net for the readers is the nature of their travel, as each plot and the words that make it come alive allow them the vicarious experience of what they never would dream of being thrown into in real life.

Dettagli