POINT OF NO RETURN

Create, Pitch, Sell

SHORT STORIES

NIGHT OF THE DARK
Sci-Fi | Horror


An earthquake shook the small town of Coyote Pass, Texas causing a blackout. The ground was cracked for miles. A shrouded figure crept out of one of the fissures.

The members of the Cottonwood Pack think the blackout is really cool, especially since it hit on Halloween night. They load two cases of beer and a Ouija board into a minivan. Drive to the abandoned Dark Road Cemetery hoping to conjure up a ghost or two.

Something much more terrifying is already there.

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LELAND'S MAGIC GARDEN
Sci-Fi | Horror

iBooks | Nook | Page Foundry

To ensure prosperity while setting himself apart from other florists Leland Gardner invents a machine that turns natural ingredients into an extraordinary liquid fertilizer. When a mouse falls into the machine the formula is dramatically transformed. In order to recreate this magical product that guarantees maximum growth potential along with brilliant flowers he’d have to add two more ingredients. Blood and bones. But how, and where, would he get them?

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BONNIE AND CLAUDE
Supernatural | Crime


After getting fired for stealing the cash box, Claude Gibber, a lazy hand at a dairy farm, turns to highway robbery. He starts by targeting vacationers traveling in recreational vehicles on Route 66 in Missouri. Accosting tourists parked alongside the highway, he discovers grand larceny is far more rewarding than petty theft. Making believe he is Clyde Barrow he envisions Miss Bonnie Parker, her red hair caressing her cheek in soft arcs from the open windows of his imaginary 1934 Ford sedan. In order to take her heart and smile away from Clyde, Claude must hone his skills to prove he is a better gangster and loverboy. Little does he know, while he’s living out a fantasy while eking out a living, someone else has begun stalking the historic highway.

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THE GHOST OF MADDEN MANOR
Paranormal Romance


Following the untimely death of his parents, Daniel, a teenage outcast, reluctantly moves into his uncle’s home in the country where he’s left feeling even more friendless and isolated. He discovers a lonely girl is haunting the old mansion when he sees her standing at the outside entrance to the cellar. Her name is Lizze, she tells him, and this is where she stood the night she was murdered in 1897 on her seventeenth birthday.

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A WATERY DEATH
Sci-Fi | Horror

iBooks | Nook | Page Foundry

A recognized tournament is coming to Redmoon Lake. If word gets out that an abnormally large alligator gar has not only taken over the lake it has taken someone’s life the event would surely be called off. More than likely it would never be rescheduled. The members of an amateur anglers fishing club plan to take matters into their own hands.


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