Familiar Artifacts

By Lorraine Ray

Attention, suspense fans! In this collection of strange tales you will watch in horror as phosgene gas creeps toward the Arizona boosters who've done something truly shocking at their World War I training camp. You will shop, if you dare, at the weird store of an asthmatic witch who likes to summon dead relatives for her customers. You will commiserate with a hunter so distracted by learning about animal tracks that he loses track of his girlfriend. You will fend off a strange puppeteer, and journey along with a substitute teacher on her disconcerting day spent caring for a violent and abused boy. Did he really describe a murder? Twelve anomalous short stories are specially crafted to jolt you out of the mundane. Proceed with caution!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lorraine Ray
• Release date: Oct 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463082157

Lorraine Ray

Lorraine Ray is the author of comedies, mysteries and short story collections. She married an Englishman and has spent several summer vacations with her husband and daughter tramping across the South Downs avoiding sheep droppings. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Besides writing, one of her favorite jobs was a two-year stint as a lunch lady! She used that job to help her write a book about cafeteria workers who go gold mining. If you like to laugh, and you have a slightly warped view of the world, it's entirely possible that you would appreciate her books.

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