A Trio of Terrible Tales

By David Karr

Three short tales of light-hearted horror, humor, and the unexpected. Do you want to know how long you have to live? Maybe not. Also explore a day-in-the-life of an IRS agent whose assignment goes terribly wrong and a protective mother's horrible nightmare and battle with evil.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Karr
• Release date: Jan 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311485694

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A Trio of Terrible Tales

By David Karr

Copyright © 2013 David Karr

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Contents

The Notebook

The IRS Agent

The Baby Monitor

The Notebook

Six years ago, Jack sat up in bed. The voice in his head woke him with another one. One more criteria. One more barrier to dying. He reached over to his nightstand to get his shiny new blue spiral notebook. He pulled the pen out from the spiral where he always kept it and opened the notebook, searching for the next clean page. He flipped past the pages with tic-marks and charts and titles like, turkey sandwiches, painting your home, and oil changes.

He uncapped the pen when he came to a clean sheet and wrote across the top of the page, Colds. The voice in his head had just told Jack that he would have exactly 98 more colds before he died. He did some quick calculations in his head. He was 32 years old. Although he never really thought about it before, he guessed that maybe he had two colds every year. At that rate, he had 49 years to go, which would make him over 80 when he died. Not too bad. And maybe he could start drinking more orange juice, taking vitamins, and using hand sanitizer. Maybe knock that down to only one cold a year. Wouldn’t that be something?

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Three weeks later he was eating lunch in the company break room. As he stared off into the distance while fishing in his bag of chips, the voice came to him again. Although he had heard the voice many times now within the past few months, it still startled him. It didn’t have a distinctive