'The Short and Scary Series' The Inheritance

By Cathy Pace Matthews

Who wouldn't love to suddenly find themselves with a large inheritance from a relative you didn't even know you had. You wouldn't have that sense of loss as you would with someone you were close to and come on, you're suddenly rich. You hate the person is dead, but you're rick. Than again maybe you're not. The more Tina finds out about this long lost relative the more she hates her and for good reason. Even the dead woman's attorney can't wait to get this whole thing off his hands and out of town. He's afraid of something but he isn't telling.
In the ninth book of The Short and Scary Series you'll find That there is a price to pay for everything.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cathy Pace Matthews
• Release date: Feb 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463607909

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

Ninth Story

The Inheritance

By Cathy Pace Matthews

Copyright 2019 by Cathy Matthews

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This book is a work of fiction. Any similarities to anyone, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Dedicated to

Shelia, William, and Matt

Content

Short story – The Inheritance

About the Author

Books by Cathy Pace Matthews

Introduction to Blood Lines, Family Ties – Chapter 2

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The Inheritance

Tina sat in the car looking up at the house that stood there shrouded with the gloom and desolation that only an old abandoned house could have. Across from the old house was a cemetery partially separated by an old wooden fence. Truth was, part of the cemetery seemed to be part of the front lawn, if you could call the ground in front of the old place a lawn that is. The monuments that dotted the area seemed to be struggling to rise out of the dirt and weeds that adorned the old graves. The desolation of the place was accentuated by the sinking earth that marked the places where some of the coffins rested beneath the surface. From where she sat Tina could see the freshly dug grave of her aunt. Tina would have thought that the grave of someone newly buried would be covered with flowers. Her aunts however had only the spray of flowers that was usually laid across the coffin that was placed there during the viewings and funeral. That small spray of flowers had wilted and needed to be discarded. Tina thought it was sad that there were no other flowers that showed the care and love of the people her aunt had left behind.

Tina had been surprised when she had received word that she had inherited anything. The house and all that went with it had belonged to an aunt that Tina had never even known existed and now she had inherited her entire estate. Tina was thinking that she would have been just as happy to have been left in ignorance about the place and the money now that she had seen the old wreck of a house.

A door opened on the car that sat in front of her and the attorney that represented her deceased aunt’s estate stepped from the oversized vehicle. Tina opened the door of her car and stepped out and met the man at the foot of the steps that lead up to the front porch.

Tina was afraid to step up on the first rung concerned that it would give way under her and send her into some bottomless pit. She could see herself falling deeper and deeper passing glimpses of hell as she spiraled down begging to have someone reach out and stop