Reflections

By Untreed Reads

This is a short story of approximately 7,800 words.

When a cursed inn replaces her friends with evil reflections a woman fights to get the genuine articles back before the doubles kill her.

A road trip goes wrong for a group of friends trying to help one of them get over a break up. They find an inn where the mirrors are cursed. They realize they don't know each other as well as they thought they did.

This title is published by Cynthia Carroll and is distributed worldwide by Untreed Reads.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Untreed Reads
• Release date: Jul 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9780988120327

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AUTHOR

Reflections

A horror short story

by Cindy Carroll

All rights reserved

Copyright 2013 by Cynthia Carroll

ISBN: 978-0-9881203-2-7

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DEDICATION

This is dedicated to my fiancé who has supported me every step of the way. To my parents and sister who put up with my over-flowing room full of books and supported my dream to be a writer. To my niece who can make me smile just thinking about her. To my cousin Ella Reece who put the idea in my head that I could be writer.

REFLECTIONS

If they didn't find a place to crash soon Lena Forge's hold on her manners would snap. She shifted in the passenger seat, the stifling heat of the June afternoon plastered her sweat soaked t-shirt to her chest. Turkey buzzards swarmed in the distance. Waves of heat emanated from the asphalt. Her water bottle, long empty, sat on her lap. She needed a drink and to stretch her legs.

She tapped the GPS display to find the address of the inn whose icon hovered on the screen.

It's just up ahead, she said to her boyfriend, Brody Williams, who was driving.

She rolled down the window and took in a gulp of humid air. Unusually warm for June, she didn't mind the heat outside compared to the stifling air inside the cramped car. Next time they went on a road trip she would insist on taking her SUV. Brody's car, while functional, didn't hold five people comfortably.

Thank God. My legs are cramped from all the sitting, her friend, Margo, said from the back seat.

Lena looked in the rear view mirror to see how Margo fared. She sat squished between Keith, her boyfriend, and Steve. Though originally Margo's idea to help Steve get over the break up with his girlfriend, the road trip had been a much needed break for all of them from their day jobs with crazy hours. The guys had taken over the planning this time, which freed Lena and Margo from their usual duties to find places to stay and mapping