'The Short and Scary Series' Contract Killer

By Cathy Pace Matthews

Somewhere in the night a car sits waiting on a certain individual. A nondescript vehicle sets in the shadows of a rest area on the interstate waiting for one car to pass by. The person in that car owes a dept and tonight the balance has come due. The thing is the person holding this bill isn't someone you want to make mad and that's just what happened. Payback will be hell.
In the sixth book of The Short and Scary Series you'll take a ride like no other with a killer that puts others to shame.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cathy Pace Matthews
• Release date: Feb 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463293751

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

Sixth Story

Contract Killer

By Cathy Pace Matthews

Copyright 2019 by Cathy Matthews

Published at Smashwords

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Content

Short story – Contract Killer

About the Author

Books by Cathy Pace Matthews

Introduction to Blood Lines, Buried Treasure Prologue

Connect with Cathy

Dedicated to

Gina

A CONTRACT KILLER

The interstate is a place of unknown stories. There are millions of them. People coming and going, passing one another as they speed past a car with who knows what going on in the next vehicle. Then sometimes they aren't passing you, they are on your tail and that's where they are staying. That’s when you get the urge to slam on your brakes causing the person behind you to take a trip up your ass if it weren’t for what it would definitely do to your car and might do to you.

Have you ever sat somewhere and watched the vehicles pass by? Did you wonder about the people in all those speeding machines and what their stories might be? Some are on vacation, others trying to get to family members after a loved one has died, for some it might be business requiring a long drive to get to a meeting. There would be those who had jumped and run to get to someone in trouble or maybe they were just taking a long drive to the next town to shop or see a doctor of one type or the other. Some would make their way to their destination safely, but a few wouldn’t. Regardless, they drove. Even at night an interstate