Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness

<p class=ql-align-justify>From Mia Dalia the author of <em>Estate Sale</em> <em>Haven</em> and other <strong>literary nightmares</strong> comes a uniquely <strong>terrifying</strong> collection of dark psychological fiction featuring novelettes and short stories that range from <strong>horror</strong> to suspense to mystery to coming-of-age to thrillers.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>SMILE SO RED</strong> - a man finds a strange graffitied house in the woods and a smiling darkness that follows him home.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>SPINDEL</strong> - a twelve-year-old boy suspects that one of the neighbors on his paper route might be a local serial killer and sets off to investigate.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>BLUES FOR THE SOUL</strong>- a library worker tries to help a troubled young boy and uncovers a terrible truth about his family.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>DEVIL'S CHORD</strong> - return to the world of <em>Smile So Red</em> with a meta journey set to the earworm tune of your worst <strong>nightmares</strong>.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>STUMP</strong> - a bullied young boy and a downtrodden family man from the same apartment complex unwittingly entrust their secrets to the same remnant of an old tree in the local woods.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>FLAMINGOS </strong>- two sisters must confront their troubled past when a buried memory is triggered by the seemingly innocuous plastic lawn birds.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>THE TRUNK</strong> - striving to achieve the American Dream a first-generation immigrant from a war-torn country buys a new home and finds something in the basement that has other ideas for him.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>REDDEST</strong> - another return to the world of <em>Smile So Red</em> albeit from a very different perspective.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Go on. Turn the page. Pick a nightmare. I dare you.</strong></p><p></p>