Yesterday and the Day Before for Halloween

Cemetery Dance Publications (website, Twitter) is offering Ed Gorman’s Yesterday and the Day Before: A Halloween Short Story e-book for Halloween fans. One of the things I love most about subscribing to mailing lists is when unexpected and unknown goodies like this land in my mail box and surprise me. I’d never heard of this before, but at $0.99 it is worth a shot to read on the flight later this week.

Elly and David Ward lost their daughter three-and-a-half years ago, and nothing reminds them more of this than seeing the children trick-or-treating on their street on Halloween night. She was twelve. Neither parent has dealt very well with the loss of their child. David has introverted and spends his nights in his deceased daughter’s bed. Elly has just had a meaningless affair. But now, it’s Halloween night and their memories are strong with their daughter’s death…and the children that they blame for it.

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