Wedding Bells and Death Knells: Ten Tales of Frisson and Frict...

A caress can evoke a shiver of excitement or a terrified shudder. Sex and terror are familiar bedfellows, flipsides to the same coin. In these ten explorations of friction and frisson, Kaysee Renee reveals the dark side of lust and love. A cowboy yearns to capture the impossible while his patient lover stands by hoping to be noticed . . . A same sex couple learns that the ugly past sometimes will not stay buried in the Hell where it belongs . . . A succubus discovers human frailty over the span of generations . . . A special woman born to hunt horrors decides to leave her "profession" only to find out there is no easy retirement plan from monster hunting . . . A heat wave brings a stranger into the lives of polyamorous group as well as thunder and the promise of a world changing storm . . . In this collection of ten sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, and sometimes nightmarish stories, Kaysee Renee Robichaud examines the darkness that seeds in the human heart and the strange blossoms it produces. The human and inhuman mingle, and the otherworldly intrudes upon the earthy. These tales are revelations from often terrifying shores where emotional, spiritual, and physical pain is not far removed from wondrous revelation. After all, do not the same cathedral bells that sing out weddings also toll intrusions by the reaper?

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