Title: Cat O’ Nine Tales
Author: Krystal Lawrence
Publisher: Telemachus Press
Pages: 284
Genre: Horror/Suspense
What evil dwells within the pretty lady next door
or the ordinary house cat?Author: Krystal Lawrence
Publisher: Telemachus Press
Pages: 284
Genre: Horror/Suspense
What happens when you pursue your dreams into the desert after dark?
Beware the man borne of your imagination. He could seek vengeance on the one who created him.
Visit a bookstore offering a most alluring and sinister service.
Journey to the dark side with ten twisted tales of horror, malevolence, and the truly uncanny.
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The First Page
The Perfect Crime
Claude Winston was a man with few
redeeming qualities. He was possessed of superior intelligence and was a sharp
dresser. Apart from those two attributes, there was absolutely nothing
praiseworthy to be said of the man.
Few people knew this however,
because Claude always put on a very socially acceptable demeanor, and could
charm both men and women alike. In short, he had everyone snowed, including his
wife.
Julia Winston was the polar
opposite of the man she married. Though she was born into great wealth, Julia
was kind-hearted, well-mannered, and always willing to help those less
fortunate. She was generous, soft-spoken and exceptionally pretty.
Claude had, of course, married
Julia for her money. For the first year he found living with her tolerable.
However, the honeymoon ended quickly and Julia began to get on his nerves.
Eventually, every last detail about his wife drove Claude crazy.
He hated the smell of her perfume,
how she chewed her food, the sound her heels made clicking across the polished
marble floors in the house, her laugh, and especially the sight of her naked
body. She revolted him.
Since Julia’s father controlled the
money, Claude had to become quite creative when it came to feathering his own
nest. He took a job the old man generously offered in the accounting division
of his firm, and slowly began embezzling funds into an off-shore account he set
up in the Cayman Islands. Never enough money at any one
time to raise suspicion was moved, and nothing that could ever be traced back
to his desk in the unlikely event someone should become wise to his activity.
He had stolen the passwords of three other employees, and all illegal
transactions were performed from their computers after hours.
Julia had a terrible phobia of
flying and did not like to
travel. Claude, on the other hand, enjoyed taking frequent
trips. Julia never stood in his way or complained about these sojourns. She
trusted Claude, and never imagined him to be the cheating kind, so was
unworried when he jetted off to some distant port without her for a little
R&R.
Julia was correct in assuming that
her husband was not unfaithful. He was smart enough to know that should he ever
get caught with his hand up another woman’s skirt, Julia’s father would put an
end to the marriage, the Mercedes, the mansion, and most of all, the money.
He would lose his reputation as a
stellar gentleman among the town’s elite, and ruin everything he had been
working toward so carefully.
Claude knew almost from the day he married Julia that he was
going to kill her.
About the Author
Krystal Lawrence lives in the Pacific Northwest.
She is the author of three novels—— two vampire stories, Risen and Risen II: The
Progeny, and a trilogy entitled, Be
Careful What You Wish For which is currently under consideration to be
turned into a television series. Cat
O’Nine Tales is Krystal’s first and much anticipated collection of
short stories. Her books are available through Amazon and all major book
retailers.
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