A Twisted Halloween 2020

By Matthew Tonks

Step inside the madness as these 31 short stories send you on a journey of insanity, lost in the fevered dreams of a challenge that lived well past its life span. But don't be fooled, for this is a HALLOWEEN lost on the twisted roads of my madness, and it takes more than a sure footed saint to step inside, without kissing your arse goodbye.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew Tonks
• Release date: Dec 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005833930

Matthew Tonks

Together we ride the steed of madness, along a road long foretold. Do not let the dire consequences scare you from this journey, for it is written, so it must be. We traveller. We explorers of otherworldly things. Let us share our providence, so we may all prosper.Hidden in the depths of it all, you will find your utopia, and it will be a beautiful sight to witness.For I may walk beside you, and I may carry your umbrella in the sun, just don’t expect me to dig you up, when the zombie apocalypse comes...

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Let My Sin Be My Fate

Redemption is something I can never have, now that you truly know my name, he says as he looks across the room at her, and tries to smile, but it comes across as more of a sneer than a smile.

You take great delight in this, don’t you? she says, as her lips pout proudly outward, and her eyes dig at him like daggers.

No, no I don’t take any delight in this, I had hoped that you would’ve never figured out the truth.

You wanted to live a lie, to live a false life forever?

He laughs softly, Forever is an overused word, I was hoping for a decade or two, until you died for natural causes, and not by my hand.

Then you must be so disappointed that we have found our way here so early, at my point of death.

He smiles nervously, as his bottom lip trembles and beads of sweat break out on his brow. I-I-I, I never meant for this to be the way things ended between us, for you.

Liar! You just told me you wished for this charade to last until my day of death, and now you renege on that very same statement. How much of a fool do you take me for?

I-I-I, I don’t take you for a fool, and I said I never wanted it to be by my hand.

But you are still going to go through with it, aren’t you?

You know I have to, he says as he swallows an uneasy mouthful of air.

Why? Because I know who you really are, or more to the point, who you’re not.

He smiles nervously once again and laughs. You profess to know more than you actually do, for if you truly knew who I was you wouldn’t be so calm.

You’re going to kill me regardless of my reaction, so it doesn’t matter what I do, it doesn’t matter what I say, the end will be what it will be.

Such profoundness from someone so unpredictable, however did you manage to hide such a formidable side of yourself from me for so long?

You were too concerned with hiding your own lies, that you couldn’t see through everyone else’s. You see my jaded love, you aren’t the only one running from your past.

He pouts his lips together, and places a finger against them, sucking in a breath, as he rubs his forehead with the barrel of the revolver. What secrets have you got hidden against your bosom?

She smiles, and leans forward, running her tongue across her teeth. My lie is nowhere as big as yours, so you needn’t worry yourself about it. Just do what you have to do, to protect what you need to protect. she says, her words laced with sarcasm.

Don’t belittle me woman, you are only tempting fate! he snarls as he lowers the revolver towards her. The hand of god will strike you down, and you will face his final judgment!

She laughs, Honey, I face god’s judgment on a daily basis, this isn’t anything new to me.

He squints as the sweat stings his eyes, and he lets out a stuttered breath of exhaustion, as his finger squeezes the trigger, only for the world to stop. He sits there in silence for many minutes, unable to move, as the world around him sits in a frozen state of motionlessness, that is everything except her.

Grave To The Rave

You saw me, before I saw you, yet you let me find you. Why?

She smiles smugly. I didn’t realise there was some type of etiquette around these things. I assumed that being the male, you would want to take the lead, and I didn’t want to offend your sense of self before words had even been said before between us.

So you judged me based on an age-old stereotype, without granting me the opportunity to prove differently. How new age of you!

Sarcasm much?

I’d rather be judged as a sarcastic bastard, than a judgmental cunt! he hisses.

Wow! Sarcastic and a see you next Thursday kinda guy, my mother would be proud, if she were alive that is.

Honey, your mum would be sucking on my schlong if she was alive!

You never met my mother. she says as she crosses her arms across her chest.

Why don’t we go dig her up and see what she thinks? I know a guy who knows a guy, who knows this guy that fucks around in the dark arts. He’s considered some sort of new age dark mage, and goes around calling himself the golden age version of Merlin the magician, the guy is the absolute bomb with his graveyard raves! he says as he leans back and crosses a leg across the other.

Graveyard raves, are they a thing?

Sure they're a thing, they're the best god damn thing around, ain’t you been to one?

N-Never, I didn’t even know they were happening. W-What makes them so different from a normal rave?

Necromancy, he says with a broad smile upon his face.

Y-Y-You mean, like raising the d-dead?

FUCK yeah I do! he says excitedly, his eyes lighting up like light bulbs.

A-Are you sure they’re s-safe?

He raises an eyebrow, "You’re not serious right?