Dark Tales: eVolume One

By Elle Chambers

Dark Tales: eVolume One is a micro collection of short, dark stories. The collection includes three tales:

“When Daddy Comes Home”: When Opal Brown's husband leaves her for another woman, she doesn't get angry - she gets determined to keep her family together at all costs. They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach and Opal plans to make him a meal he'll never forget.

“Child’s Play”: Maggie is worried about her five-year-old son after his father's death. Max seems oddly detached from the tragedy and has invented a young friend named Edgar he talks to in secret in the middle of the night. Most kids his age have imaginary friends so Maggie tries not to be concerned - that is, until Max confides in her his young friend is actually an adult who comes to play with him when his mommy is sleeping.

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“The Storyteller”: Elizabeth's house has been on the market for weeks with no interest. One day, an old woman with a dead hand appears on her doorstep asking to see the place. As they tour the house, Elizabeth gradually becomes uncomfortable with the woman's familiarity of both the house and of her - she's never laid eyes on the old woman before in her life. Or has she?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Indie Spirit Press
• Release date: Sep 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301219988

Elle Chambers

Elle Chambers writes dark and erotic fiction. She currently lives in the Midwest.

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DARK TALES:

eVOLUME ONE

ELLE CHAMBERS

Copyright © 2013 Elle Chambers

Smashwords Edition

Indie Spirit Press

Cover Design by James at GoOnWrite.com

All Rights Reserved

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This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

To my mom for beginning my love of horror.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Since this is a short short story collection, I’ll keep this brief. Thank you to Dahlia Legacy for generously supplying the first cover for this issue. You are tirelessly planning your very first comic book and took time out of your schedule to help me when I needed it – it’s greatly appreciated. Thank you to James at GoOnWrite.com for supplying my new cover – it looks incredible. Thank you to all the friends, family, and colleagues who have supported my writing career over the years. It has kept me going in the face of many rejections (including rejections of When Daddy Comes Home) and the dreaded writers’ block.

Finally, thank you to everyone who purchased this ebook. I hope the stories contained herein are as enjoyable for you to read as they were for me to write. My plan is to release subsequent issues of Dark Tales and if you like the stories in this volume, I’d love to hear feedback from you to know where to take the next installment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

WHEN DADDY COMES HOME

CHILD’S PLAY

THE STORYTELLER

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

WHEN DADDY COMES HOME

(Please note: this story was originally written and uploaded to Critique Circle for review under my given name. It was also submitted to publications under that name and is now being published here under this one.)

Opal Brown spit-shined the forks for that evening’s supper. She buffed out all the water stains with a crisp linen napkin. Her silverware needed to sparkle; dinner would be special.

Daddy was home. He’d been off living with some hot-butt trollop for three months. It didn’t last. He’d called that morning asking to come by and see the girls. Opal had told him to come around six.

He didn’t know she would make