C. LaSart: Ad Nauseam: 13 Tales of Extreme Horror

He knew it’d never work that way. There would be an investigation. Someone would get curious. Maybe they’d poke through that unusual looking compost heap behind the shed, find the bones. He’d be hunted. They’d find him too, he never doubted that.

No, that wouldn’t be the way to do it. If he wanted out, there on the floor sat the boy’s empty gun. Before he lit the match, he’d buy a bullet, just one, because he knew exactly where to put it, and blow his brains out while the world burned around him.

Bang! All over for both of them—

The footsteps he’d missed while lost in his thoughts now stopped behind his chair. Jack heard what passed for breathing just over his shoulder.

If she touches me, I’ll do it! I swear to God I will!

“I’m hungry,” she said.

“I know.”

A life-long fan of all things horror, C.W. LaSart resides in the Midwest with her three kids and beloved, Lou. Making her publishing debut in Dark Moon Digest Issue 1 , she has since been included in other Dark Moon Projects, SNM Horror Magazine and was one of 3 winners of the Cemetery Dance Amateur horror contest. Her first collection, Ad Nauseam: 13 Tales of Extreme Horror , will be released early in 2012 by Dark Moon Books. Find out more at CWLaSart.com.

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AD NAUSEAM

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