Breathing in the Past

First Horror Collection

A scary story collection of short tales published in various magazines in the UK and USA between 2004 and 2009.

• Soul Mates - A woman searches for a lover only to find him in a haunted house.
• Crimson Hearts - A woman waits for her long-lost love to return so she can capture his heart forever.
• Cassandra's Playground - A child finds graveyard playmates after her mother is killed.
• Breathing in the Past - A man mysteriously returns to his teenage years to talk to his dead parents.
• Hooferdog - An abusive step-father gets what he needs in a laundromat.
• Hunger - A creepy monster rises from the floorboards looking for food.
• Uncommitted - A married woman is tired of her life and innocently meets a man in a bar that travels with her to a funeral home.
• Prairie Santa - Santa brings a little girl's wishes to life while body parts drip from his bag of goodies.
• Practise Makes Perfect - Two children home schooled in their parent's business: the running of a funeral home.
• The Last Regiment (Sci-Fi Version) - Two men hide in an underground bunker preparing for a war that has already been.

This is Douglas E Wright's first collection of four; the rest being 'Cadaver Eyes, Skeletal Kisses, Remains & Sweet Things 2013.'