Don’t worry. Sleep is over-rated…
Welcome to one of the August 11th stops on the blog tour for Flash Paranormal Fiction by D. P. Roseberry with Bewitching Book Tours (schedule linked.) Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, more exclusive content!
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About the Book
Flash Paranormal Fiction
by D. P. Roseberry
Published July 2023
Genre: Paranormal Flash Fiction
Page Count: 65
This collection of flash fiction is strictly paranormal… and creepy.
Flash Paranormal Fiction will send your flesh crawling with ghosts, witches, aliens, cryptids, and creatures of all kinds.
These 13 Flash stories are for those readers (just like us) who love quick and fun ghostly gatherings!
Still… maybe you shouldn’t read it at night…
But don’t worry. Sleep is overrated…
Excerpt
It was a beautiful morning, just gorgeous. I was sitting back in my no-gravity lounge chair holding a cup of hot coffee and sipping away the sunrise. The temperature was just right and the plants along the front screen of the porch seemed to reach toward the warm glow of the sun. This was a day that made all the other days’ worth dealing with. It whispered relaxation and creativity.
The only thing I couldn’t get my mind around on this glorious day was the zombie that was trying to open the latch on the screen door. I’d been watching it for a good ten minutes or so, just as it was watching me drink my coffee. My question: Where the hell had this thing come from? And why was it ruining my perfectly quiet morning?
This one I was looking at was none too bright. It could easily punch through the screen, but instead, it fiddled with the sliding lock. I’d heard about these things. A bit short on brains. But then again, who knew? Maybe it thought I was stupid for drinking coffee. I’d thought that one or two times myself.
Just then I heard a voice. “Hey man, what’s that you got there trying to get into your house?”
It was my neighbor, Monroe. We were pretty close on most days. “Gots me a zombie, me thinks,” I replied after a nice long coffee swig.
Monroe, standing back from the door but still close enough to talk through the screen continued. “What’s ya gonna do when it figures out the door?” He yawned.
“Hmmm. Good point,” I said with a nod. “Guess I better go get the gun so I can take care of business if I need to.”
Monroe was nodding as well. “Terrible way to spend this beautiful morning, though. Still, zombies are nothin’ to mess with. So I heard.”
“Maybe wait a little while, though,” I said. “It’s too nice out to make things all blood and guts. We got time.”
“I hear ya,” answered Monroe.
Then suddenly, another voice erupted through the morning. “Outta the way, boys!”
At that point a woman and a teenage girl raised rifles and blew holes in the zombie’s head. The thing fell like a rock.
Both Monroe and I jumped back to keep from getting muck on our clothes. I’d had to roll out of my chair, and I spilled my coffee. “Dam women!” I yelled out. “Know just how to ruin a morning!”
About the Author
D. P. ROSEBERRY has been writing about the imagined world for many years. She dabbles in paranormal flash and romantic intrigue (her most recent paranormal romance is Three Months to Change), sci fi, fantasy, horror, and many kinds of speculative fiction. With a special interest in UFOs, she is the founder of the UFO Management Group. Roseberry is also a practicing certified hypnotist with her practice centering on past-life regression, alien abductions, and other paranormal topics. She reads the Tarot and varied oracles as well and finds that divination brings sharp interpretation to daily living and uses it as a method in her writing. Her latest Tarot decks are First Light Tarot and A Christmas Tarot: Ghosts of Past, Present, and Future, both with a paranormal twist. Writing paranormal flash is a guilty pleasure and she finds herself in the middle of these quick and ghosty stories more often than she likes to admit. Flash Paranormal Fiction is her first attempt at putting them from mind to media for you to read.
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Happy Friday! Hi, Dinah, as there was no option to reply on yesterdays post, I will share my response here. For books I am a fan of Stephen King and some of the movie adaptations of his stories as well. Both Aliens and Terminator are among my favorite films, so we have that in common, indeed I am a HUGE fan of everything sci-fi and I think that Event Horizon was one of the scariest films that I have ever seen. For campier horror, I love Freddy Krueger, he cracked me up! So much more personality than Jason or Micheal Myers, lol. Anyway, I am looking forward to reading your stories. Have a great weekend!
What part of the world are you in, Bea? I’m seeing you everywhere on the stops! I hope you like the stories!
I love how calm the characters seem when there is a zombie approaching. Sounds like a great book.
Hi Kelly, I hope you like it. Was great to write! I tried to write little tidbits in about people I knew!
The book sounds fantastic. I love scary books.
Hi Piroska and thanks for commenting! This one is real campy and I tried to make it “different” in that way!