The WG2E All-For-Indies Anthologies: Spooky Shorts Edition

By D. D. Scott

Product Description:

Top 100 Bestselling Author D. D. Scott – who is also the Co-Founder of The WG2E – The Writer’s Guide to Epublishing - is treating you to a short story collection featuring one of her own stories as well as stories by some of her fave Indie Epub Authors, including David Slegg, Lois Lavrisa, PJ Sharon, and Patricia (P.R.) Mason.

With this Spooky, Halloween-themed Anthology, you’ll never think of Halloween in quite the same way.

Book Description:

In this Fifth Edition of The WG2E All-For-Indies Anthologies, you’re treated to a terrific, one-of-a-kind approach to the anthology concept.

You’ll get a variety of genres and story-lengths all packaged together as a wonderful way to discover some of today’s hottest new authors!

Plus, each WG2E Anthology is based on a different theme.

In this WG2E Spooky Shorts Edition, you’re getting short stories that yes, have a spooky, Halloween element, but you’ll never think of spooky or Halloween in quite the same way.

For example:

“Think one crazy aunt cooking up a cauldron full of trouble...it’s spell-casting gone awry and Voodoo Doll Hell” for D. D. Scott & David Slegg’s Stuck with a Spell

“The future can be a frightening place, even for those with special powers” for PJ Sharon’s Redemption

“Is Creepy Mouse Guy really a creep?” for Lois Lavrisa’s Treat or Trick

“Sometimes, it’s not the undead who are truly scary” for Patricia (P.R.) Mason’s Not a Sparkle in Sight

Happy Reading and Welcome to our WG2E All-For-Indies Anthologies!

About the Authors:

All the authors in the WG2E All-For-Indies Anthologies are regular contributors to The WG2E site. At The WG2E, it’s all about writers helping writers reach readers with great books for great prices. It’s all genres and all story-lengths, from just a couple of pages to novel-length too!

Praise for The WG2E All-For-Indies Anthologies:

“A fun read...for any day.” --- Diane Vallere

“I have read most of them...I liked them all for their different styles and genres.” --- Julie Day

“I loved Spring Fling! I can’t wait to read the other two...” --- Shadow

“...a sampler of genres and styles, and gives the reader a chance to find new writers... and explore beyond the same old books he or she has been reading for years...I have to admit that the collective imaginations of these writers boggles the mind!” ---Patrice Fitzgerald

“Wow! What a list of awesome authors and fabulous story concepts! It is so much fun to read each one...can’t wait for the next one!”--- Reader Ann

“What a great idea, WG2E! I love being able to read several different genres in one collection but with a central theme connecting them. And it’s a terrific way to find new authors!” --- Sab

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. D. Scott
• Release date: Oct 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301288205

D. D. Scott

D. D. Scott is an Amazon and Barnes and Noble Top 100 Bestselling Romantic Comedy and Humorous Mystery Author. She’s also a Writer’s Go-To-Gal for Muse Therapy and Indie Epublishing, the Co-Founder of The WG2E - The Writer’s Guide to E-Publishing, and the Founder of The RG2E – The Reader’s Guide to E-publishing. You can get all the scoop on her and her books in her new cyber home...D. D. Scott-ville.

Book preview

WELCOME TO THE WG2E ALL-FOR-INDIES ANTHOLOGIES

(SPOOKY SHORTS EDITION)

Copyright © 2012 by D. D. Scott. All rights reserved.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the author or publisher.

First Electronic Edition: October 2012

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When just a little over one year ago, I brainstormed The WG2E – The Writer’s Guide to Epublishing – the destination site for all-things-Epublishing, I never in my wildest, most spectacular dreams imagined I’d end up creating a site which now gets over one million hits per month and is the first visit of the day for over 3500 Indie Epublished Writers and Authors!

At The WG2E, it’s all about finding ways to Pay It Forward, both to our fellow writers and to all our superfab readers too.

We simply luuuvvv treating readers to great books for great prices and helping our fellow authors find new readers around the globe.

With this Fifth Edition of our WG2E All-For-Indies Anthologies, we’re treating you to a terrific, one-of-a-kind approach to the anthology concept.

You’ll get a variety of genres all packaged together as a wonderful way to discover authors new to you and a variety of story lengths – from short-shorts, to short and novella length too!

In addition, each WG2E Anthology is based on a different theme, and we’re over the moon to offer you unique perspectives on these superfab fun themes.

Here’s what we mean by that…

In our WG2E Spooky Shorts Anthology, we’re treating you to stories that yes, have a Spooky Halloween-style element, but you’ll never think of Spooky or Halloween in quite the same way.

For example:

* Think one crazy aunt cooking up a cauldron full of trouble…it’s spell-casting gone awry and Voodoo Doll Hell for D. D. Scott & David Slegg’s STUCK WITH A SPELL

* The future can be a frightening place, even for those with special powers for PJ Sharon’s REDEMPTION

* Is Creepy Mouse Guy really a creep? for Lois Lavrisa’s TREAT OR TRICK

* Sometimes, it’s not the undead who are truly scary for Patricia (P.R.) Mason’s NOT A SPARKLE IN SIGHT

Happy Reading and Welcome to our WG2E All-For-Indies Anthologies!

The Best of Reading Wishes—

D. D. Scott

Co-Founder of The WG2E

P.S. Watch for The WG2E All-For-Indies Anthologies Martini Madness Edition coming for the 2012 Holiday Season!!! And catch up with the earlier editions here: http://thereadersguidetoepublishing.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/with-the-wg2es-ebook-anthologies-you-get-multiple-genres-and-authors-with-superfab-fun-themed-collections-too/

Contents

STUCK WITH A SPELL

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

NOTE FROM D. D. SCOTT

ABOUT D. D. SCOTT

Full Bio

BOOKS BY D. D. SCOTT

NOTE FROM DAVID SLEGG

Soul Redemption

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

ABOUT PJ SHARON

Treat or Trick

ABOUT LOIS LAVRISA

Not a Sparkle in Sight

ABOUT P.R. MASON

STUCK WITH A SPELL

(The Stuck with a Series - Book 2)

By D. D. Scott & David Slegg

For all of you fabulous peeps wondering about the explosion that finished off The Stuck with a Series Book One - STUCK WITH A STIFF, here’s the scoop…

STUCK WITH A STIFF

Welcome Back to our Stuck with a Series World.

Happy Reading!

CHAPTER ONE

Holy hellfire!

I scrambled out of the kitchen with the rest of my guests to see what new calamity Aunt Liza had conjured up.

One would think the bestselling police procedurals I write would provide enough excitement in my life. But the fictional antics I dream up are nothing compared to living the next farm over from my crazy Aunt Liza.

No one would believe my award-winning fiction, written under the nom de plume Nicky Blane, could be based on the real-life shenanigans my Aunt Liza cooks up next door.

We found her standing next to a heap of twisted metal in the center of a circle of charred ground. Quite the contrast to the blanket of snow that covered everything else in sight.

What the hell do you think you’re doing?!

Liza said nothing just blinked. Okay, she tried to blink, which must have been difficult and rather uncomfortable being as she had singed eyebrows and only a smattering of eyelashes left. Her plaid hunter’s cap smoked and sizzled right along with her apocalyptic mess.

Despite my yelling, she still wasn’t focusing on me or the question I’d barked at her. Apparently, she was still dazed by her latest blow-up.

It took a second for my mind to register what the metal had once been. No. She didn’t, I thought, certain she wasn’t that far over the total nutjob line.

But then I caught what was left of the manufacturer’s label on one piece of smoking metal. It was the wreckage of the two rusting gasoline tanks that had been on our land since long before I was born.

Damn. She truly had lost all of her marbles.

Thankfully, Captain Allen, a thirty-year veteran of our Sheriff’s Department and now my Editor’s significant other, hadn’t yet felt the need to take out his handcuffs or unholster his duty weapon, though his hand was resting on its stock. I had a feeling that when it came to my Aunt Liza, he would always be duty ready.

Well? I continued, not about to let her weasel her way out of an explanation.

I was just usin’ the support structure of the tanks to hang up a couple of dolls. I didn’t count on there being anything left in them rusty old things.

Uh…Hello, Genius! Gasoline is extremely explosive! Why would you even consider firing that cannon of yours at a gas tank?! Wait a minute. Did you say dolls?!

So what? Yes, they were dolls. I’m trying out a new spell on a couple of folks.

She said this as though it were a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Let me get this straight. As far as you’re concerned, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with hanging Voodoo dolls on a gas tank and then annihilating ‘em with a 10-gauge shotgun?

She cocked her head as if she were thinking about it really hard.

There wasn’t a single one of us standing there who didn’t know all kinds of major trouble resulted when her wheels were crankin’ that fast and furious.

Yeah. I don’t see anything wrong with that, she said, taking off her cap, dropping it to the ground, and snuffing out the last remnants of burning material with her pink rubber boots.

What y’all should be concerned about, however, is that I think my spell may have gone a wee bit awry.

CHAPTER TWO

Well, hot damn! Now we were getting somewhere! A spell! I was privy to a for-real spell coming from a for-real witch!

Okay…for the record, I’m not sure Nicky’s Aunt Liza is actually a witch. But she definitely tries and takes her attempts at becoming one to rather extreme but fabulous levels.

Totally good with me!

I’d been waiting on an opportunity like this forever! And I was over the moon to finally have the chance to see it! Oooo…speaking of the moon, I wonder if the fact that it’s going to be a full moon tonight figured into her planning and preparation?

There’s just so much about all of this witchcraft that I can’t wait to explore. It’s not everyday that a fiction editor like me experiences more interesting action in real life than on the page. Come to think of it, I’m no longer just Samantha Aldredge, Editor Extraordinaire. I’m about to become a witch’s protege.

Well…if you’re allowed to job shadow a witch. Maybe I could be an apprentice of sorts. Kind of like on-the-job training. In the name of research of course. I mean, think about it this way…all great editors do their research. And they do everything possible to make sure their authors’ stories are authentic. It doesn’t get much more authentic than this, right?!

"So, tell us about these dolls, Liza. They’re actually Voodoo dolls? Or were Voodoo dolls?" I asked, thinking perhaps I should pull out my iPhone and record this so as not to forget one detail of awesomeness.

Yes, that’s right. Voodoo dolls, she said, sitting down on a wrought iron bench covered with snow.

She must have still been so damn dazed from the explosion that she didn’t care whether or not she was sitting on an ice cold seat. ‘Course, being as she was in the hot seat with Nicky and probably my Captain too, maybe the cold chill was a relief.

I followed her glassy stare, which was focused on what remained of the two Voodoo dolls.

Then it hit me. And oh my God did it hit me!

One of those extra-crispy dolls had to be representing my ex, Hank Aldredge!

What have I done?!

It wasn’t that I really believed Liza’s spells would work. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have given her Hank’s wedding band. But now that I saw his partially melted ring around one of the doll’s smoldering necks, what if her witchcraft was real? And what if it did work?

There was no mistaking that Hank was a total asshole, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to see him seriously injured or worse yet, dead. And isn’t that the kind of energy that’s spread using Voodoo rituals?

But she’d just said something with this spell had gone awry.

Oh shit! I didn’t know what the hell to think, let alone do.

A few days earlier, I’d had a conversation with her about our less-than-stellar ex-husbands. Her’s was a real doozy of a hot mess. Mine? Well, let’s just say there are princes and there are frogs. And he was the biggest frog of ‘em all.

Liza said she was planning to have a little fun with her former hubby, and she’d be more than happy to make it a two-for-one spell…if I was interested. Hell yeah, I was interested!

She asked me if I had any objects that belonged to or were associated with Hank. And I had