'The Short and Scary Series' The World of Pretty Colors

By Cathy Pace Matthews

Still awake. Let's try to make it an all-niter. In the third book in 'The Short and Scary I'll you'll go where you have never gone before, To a land of dreams come true turned into your worst nightmare. Or is it you that turns into the nightmare of others.
These are the kind of stories when you need or want a quick read that are great for a quick break, waiting for someone, or you know you may not have time to get into a full novel. Each story is meant to send you on a scary thrill ride that there is no coming back from.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cathy Pace Matthews
• Release date: Feb 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463885499

Cathy Pace Matthews

I love the twisted and macabre. I also love the old horror where the thing that went bump in the night scared you and not all the blood gushing from a jagged wound that is more likely to gross you out. There is a difference. Don’t get me wrong I can do gore and quite well when I need to.I’m also not a young adult author. I’m way too old for that and personally at this point in my life I want to read a book that involves men and women over twenty five and under one hundred and twenty five. If you’re younger than that I don’t think you’ll care and if you’re older than that, then God bless you and let me know, I’ll change the upper end of the timeline.I tend to be outspoken and nothing is sacred when it comes to my writing. Well that part isn’t entirely true. The farm in the Blood Lines series is and I don’t apologize for that. I started writing because of that farm.I strive to create the unusual and different and that’s not always easy, as a matter of fact, it’s hard. I try hard not to do the tried and true.When I read a horror story I want to read a horror story. Can it have love and caring in it? Sure, but let’s keep things in perspective. I want to scare you and I’ll leave it up to other really good authors, and there are some really good ones, to give you all that other stuff.I set out to write horror. I will take you to places in my books you’ve never been before and along the way I may make you laugh because what fun is real horror if it can’t make you laugh on occasion? The good part about the humor, you still have to turn the page and what waits for you there might not be so funny.I have also recently become a producer for the short horror film, She Summoned Him. I'm looking forward to the the release.I'm married to a wonderful man, Buddy, and between us we have three very beautiful daughters. We love to travel in our converted 1963 Greyhound 4106 and discover new places and meeting new people. I grew up with four wonderful brothers, one of which is no longer with us. I was born in Mississippi, grew up in Tennessee, and fell in love with Missouri as well as a man who comes from there.I am surprised at how much writing has helped me grow as a person. I pay a lot more attention to things around me than I used to and can find a story in almost everything I see and hear. I have also learned what a truly dark sense of humor I have. I love making people raise an eyebrow at me on occasion.My husband and I were recently at a local restaurant and were picking at one another. The waiter walked up about that time and I asked if they had an oven large enough to put a body in. He asked why and after a short explanation with a wicked little gleam in his eye he told me they did. What concerned me was that wicked little gleam. I have since found out that a lot of restaurants do have ovens big enough to hold a human body. My suggestion to you is not to make the waiting staff of any eating establishment angry. You might end in up on the menu the next night.With seven books of my own under my belt, at present count, nine short story books, one exceptional book of short stories along with eight other gifted writers and the next one in the Blood Lines Series that I'm working on I'm pretty happy with where I am in my life right now.

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The Short and Scary Series

Third Story

The World of Pretty Colors

By Cathy Pace Matthews

Copyright 2019 by Cathy Matthews

Published at Smashwords

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Content

Short story – The World of Pretty Colors

About the Author

Books by Cathy Pace Matthews

Introduction to Blood Lines, The Curse – Chapter 2

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The World of Pretty Colors

I woke with another headache this morning. I hate that. It means it will be another one of those days. Usually when someone makes that remark it means another bad day at work, another lousy one with the family, or just a shitty day all together. Not me. When I say that it takes on a whole other meaning. It takes on a far darker meaning. It means a day where I slip from this world into that other darker world. Oh, you’ve heard the remark, ‘all the colors are pretty in my world.’ Well I’m here to tell you, they’re not.

Yes, the beautiful brilliant colors are there and they are alluring, but they hide a darkness underneath you can’t begin to imagine. Something so dark and malevolent that you can’t begin to comprehend the scope of such evil. It slowly rises up to gradually envelope you. You will not be aware of the darkness until it’s too late. It drags you down into a world of madness and horror. I know, I go there regularly.

The first time I was pulled into that world, I loved it. It was all that could you hope it would be, and more. A fairytale fantasyland that reached out to embrace you in a warmth and beauty that brings you comfort and peace, at first. Everything looked so perfect, so clean, and so miraculous. You traverse a landscape unlike any you’ve ever seen before. You are surrounded by lush flowering plants and trees. The soft sound and cooling breeze of the ocean nearby pulls you to it. Your bare feet feel as if they are planting themselves in a cushion of warm sand, cotton, and satin luxury all at one time. The air caresses