Key 13: And other Stories by Rose Titus blitz with giveaway
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Key 13: And other Stories
Rose Titus
Publication date: October 6th 2017
Genres: Adult, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror
Rose Titus, author of The Vampire Next Door Trilogy, now brings together a collection of her best short stories. Here in this book you will find tales of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, space aliens, and even a few angels. These stories answer questions such as where do we go after we die? What is the future of this planet? And what is the future of humanity? There are also stories of young runaways, old hippies, worried mothers, troubled families, love gone horribly wrong, selfish billionaires, people who find themselves suddenly homeless, old men with their recollections of days gone by, and girls gone wild! There may even be a murder or two.
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EXCERPT:
One day Doris found out that the old hospital building did in fact have a morgue on the lower level. This got Doris all excited and she wanted to visit the morgue just to see what it was like down there. Naturally, I had to go too. I don’t know why I felt I had to go to the morgue. Just to be brave, I suppose.
Doris went to find Agnes, who of course was the oldest staff person on our ward. Agnes had probably worked at the state hospital the longest of anyone. She knew her way around. You could really learn a lot from a co-worker like Agnes. One of the best pieces of advice Agnes gave me was on the first day I started; she was taking me up to the floor where I would be permanently assigned, and said, “Now listen, in this place, you keep your eyes and ears open, and your mouth shut.” And she was right. This advice can apply to a lot of workplaces, I suppose.
But on this day, Doris went to pester Agnes about letting us visit the morgue.
“Oh come on, can we, please?”
Agnes frowned at Doris, which was not unusual, as she generally frowned at everyone. “You want to what?”
“Go to the morgue!” Doris grinned like a big kid and pointed at me, “Rose wants to go!”
Thanks, Dorrie, “Yeah. Okay. If you guys go, I’ll go along too . . . I guess.”
Agnes frowned again, “Okay, but you two better keep it shut about this, you hear me! We are not supposed to be down there, so you both keep quiet.”
“We promise,” I said.
But Doris kept giggling.
The tree of us went down the elevator together. It dawned on me that maybe Doris wanted to see the two headed baby that was supposedly kept down there. Yes, that’s right. A state hospital is a place filled with strange things. I learned that pretty quickly, and one of those strange things was a two headed fetus that they say was stillborn and preserved in a glass jar.
At the turn of the century—I had learned while working there—the state hospital was a hospital for the poor. At that time, there was a maternity ward. That’s how the two headed baby got there, that is what was said about it—that the sad creature had been born there and didn’t survive, or was stillborn.
Now Doris is nudging me, “There’s a two headed baby down there, you know.”
“Yeah, I heard.”
Agnes gave us another look, “Don’t you two never say nuthin!”
“I promise,” I said, and I meant it.
“Nuthin!” repeated Agnes.
She led us to the reception area, and asked for “Key 13.” I didn’t say anything, but I thought to myself, well, the people who run this crazy dump have a sense of humor, at least.
Author Bio:
Rose Titus resides somewhere in cold, dreary New England with two manipulative cats and a very out of date computer with which she creates horror and fantasy fiction. She also has a restored classic Buick to ride around in while in search of adventure.
For travel she has stayed the night in an allegedly haunted castle, has taken a boat ride on Loch Ness, and has visited the Bermuda Triangle — without getting lost.
Her work has previously appeared in Lost Worlds, Lynx Eye, Bog Gob, Mausoleum, Weird Terrain, Descend, The Dead River Review, and other literary magazines. She also writes regularly for Blood Moon Rising Magazine.
When she’s not working or writing or messing with her old car, she waits by the mailbox for her Fortean Times to arrive.
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