Night Terrors

Fear is quite possibly the greatest and underrated human emotion. Experience terror like you never have before in the short story collection, Night Terrors by Cody Williams. The title story, "Night Terrors", chronicles the back and forth conversations between young teenager, Johnny Warner and Dr. Mason as he keeps a dream diary that gets more and more terrifying with every night. But are what Johnny sees in his night terrors fact or fiction? In "A Chat with Death", Harold embarks on an average day of football and frozen dinners before he is visited by a tall dark stranger who seems to know more about him than he previously let on. In "Lot 229", Rusty tries to cope with his father's death and finds that his guilt is gradually outweighing his hatred. When he finds what his father left in him Lot 229, he realizes how his father truly felt about him. In the poem, "The Cowboy Town", a dark stranger visits a small dying unnamed town with a special bargain that could save it. In "Toys in the Attic, Lee Ramsey mourns the loss of his wife and son. Just when he decides that it's time to finally move on, he experiences strange happenings regarding an old chest of toys that belonged to his deceased son. In "Just an Empty Box", a young couple get a package in the mail from a strange looking man. In "You Will Hear That Trumpet Sound", a grieving Peter waits for the return of his wife and son.

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