Have a Free Burst of Joy
Until the end of 2024, L. Andrew Cooper’s (my) short horror story “Burst” is FREE to download in the Horrific Scribblings store!
I write a short story every Halloween, and this story was born Halloween 2024, which makes it my most recent short (about 7,000 words). I’m publishing it here on HorrificScribblings.com first, which makes it the first Horrific Scribblings original to go public.
The story follows the attendees of a small wedding shower after an unexpected package explodes, covering them with confetti that has deadly consequences. It’s more lighthearted than most of my work, not a holiday story per se but certainly festive for the holidays. Early readers who often shy from the extremes but soldier on out of insane devotion found this one fairly easy to take because it’s really, really gory, but kind of not at the same time. See for yourself.
Also, for those of you who are fans of story crafting as well as finding some joy in the horrific, note that the structure is a bit of an experiment: I tell the story from ten different perspectives, each of which appears only once as characters pass the POV torch from beginning to end.
Enjoy the tale, my gift to you, and while you’re at the store, do note that other stories are easy to download at only 99 cents each.
