Crooked: Mind Bending Shorts

By McKenzie Staley

Inside CROOKED: MIND BENDING SHORTS are three shorts with their own twists and turns.

In "Not a Wolf" Bree and her abusive brother stay in their parents' cabin in the woods. A normal night, until she notices the creature watching outside her bedroom. In a cat and mouse game, Bree fights to keep the thing outside.

"Heritage" pushes the boundaries of what someone will do for their family. Grieving her mother's recent death, Katie is set on completing her mother's dream. Even if that dream happens to be a ritual for the occult.

"Correspondence" considers what technology advancement might mean for our lives. In a world were identity chips are implanted, Sayra is given a chance. She can find the cure for her mother's illness. All she has to do is listen to the ghost in her identity chip.

• Language: English
• Publisher: McKenzie Staley
• Release date: Nov 20, 2020

McKenzie Staley

McKenzie Staley is a fiction writer with a focus on horror and fantasy and is a copywriter on the side. She is enrolled in Full Sail University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Creative Writing for Entertainment. Her credits include, a flash fiction piece on HORROR TREE, reporting intern for her local newspapers PINEDALE ROUNDUP and PINEDALE EXAMINER. McKenzie is also a content creator on a Youtube Channel with a focus on writing and books.

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Crooked

Mind Bending Shorts

McKenzie Staley

Copyright by McKenzie Staley 2019

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Not A Wolf

Heritage

Correspondence

About the Author

Not A Wolf

The cold night air brushes the curtains of Bree’s room. A wolf-like creature lurks in the bushes. Its black fur mats to its body. Its eyes pierce straight through Bree and pin her in place.

Her room, already too small, closes in around her. Her