{"id":3386,"date":"2017-02-28T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T02:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quincyallen.com\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2017-02-28T19:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T02:57:24","slug":"paranormal-a-new-mini-short-story-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quincyallen.com\/paranormal-a-new-mini-short-story-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Paranormal &#8211; A New Mini Short Story Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paranormal-Short-Stories-Quincy-Allen-ebook\/dp\/B06WRQ6B8S\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3388\" src=\"https:\/\/quincyallen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Web-Version.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>In my copious amounts of spare time, I managed to take three of my favorite paranormal short stories and put them in one place.<\/p>\n<p>This new collection contains &#8220;Salting Dogwood,&#8221; &#8220;Tasty Morsels,&#8221; and &#8220;The St. Elmo D\u00e4monj\u00fcnger.&#8221; The first two have been published twice each, but the last is an unpublished story featuring a character from a future novel.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Salting Dogwood<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a tale of heartache and retribution, set at the turn of the 20th century, where the ghost of a young girl must seek out her father\u2019s killer across decades.<\/p>\n<p>EXCERPT<br \/>\n<em>\u2026. The vision faded and she found herself standing before the ladies\u2019 room door. She shook her head, trying to clear the frightful vision, and walked in. She stepped up to the sink, turned on the water and started at her reflection in the mirror. The face seemed almost foreign to her, and a chill coursed its way through her body. She leaned down, splashed her face with water and lifted her head. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was not her own face looking back at her, but the face of a teenage colored girl in a plain, thread-bare dress of gray covered with a dingy apron. It should have surprised Madge, but it didn\u2019t. She merely stared at the face and knew the girl\u2019s name was Harriet . \u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tasty Morsels<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is what you get when you cross the X-Files, Iron Chef, and Big Trouble in Little China. In it, a down-on-his-luck FBI agent nearing the end of his career has one last chance to be a hero. Unfortunately, his one shot at redemption may end with him as a tasty morsel.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026. I suddenly understood exactly what my boss Dickerson had felt. Some things the mind just didn\u2019t want to latch on to. And without a firm grasp, the mind tended to cast the impossible aside with a big fat BULLSHIT label stamped on it. But I\u2019d seen what was left of the bodies, and I couldn\u2019t argue with Francois. Everything fit. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTo it,\u201d Francois said quietly, \u201cwe are nothing more than tasty morsels.\u201d His eyes burned with fierce determination. \u201cBut tonight, the tables will be turned, non? We shall track the beast to its lair and end this reign of terror.\u201d \u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The St. Elmo D\u00e4monj\u00fcnger<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0pits a veteran demon hunter from a distant land against evil threatening the residents of small Colorado town in the old west.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026. \u201cYou are very observant,\u201d the padre clarified. \u201cI\u2019m actually both an ordained Jesuit priest and a practicing witch of some ability.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Earl, Tate, and Bob\u2014who had remained silent the whole time\u2014stared at the padre in disbelief. \u201cHow the hell can you be both,\u201d Bob asked incredulously. \u201cDon\u2019t you believe in God?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBelieve in God? Of course I believe in God.\u201d There was a terseness in the padre\u2019s voice that had its roots in Germany when he was a young Jesuit. \u201cI know it personally. I don\u2019t particularly like the son-of-a-bitch, but it does seem to have its uses for me. I am a d\u00e4monj\u00fcnger because it wants me to be one.\u201d \u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"30%\" \/>\n<p><em>Paranormal Short Stories<\/em> is now available in digital format only, and you can get\u00a0it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paranormal-Short-Stories-Quincy-Allen-ebook\/dp\/B06WRQ6B8S\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my copious amounts of spare time, I managed to take three of my favorite paranormal short stories and put them in one place. 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