This Hideous Joy: Short Reads, #15

By Jonathan Inbody

Spring is in the air. 

The town of Bract Hollow, Vermont, is a nice, normal place full of nice, normal people, or at least it used to be. Now, everyone smiles a little too widely, even when they ought to be sad, and few seem to notice the difference. Even fewer have noticed the recent spate of mysterious deaths, or the strange, flaky material scattered around each fallen body. No one, however, suspects the truth…
 

Something strange is growing in the town of Bract Hollow, and something much worse is about to be in bloom. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Black Hare Press
• Release date: Aug 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201360528

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BLACK HARE PRESS SHORT READS

WARDENCLYFFE by GREGG CUNNINGHAM

HADES 11 by PAUL WARMERDAM

BLOOD AND SILK by ZOEY XOLTON

AS ABOVE, SO BENEATH by JOSHUA D. TAYLOR

THE RISE OF THE GREAT OLD ONE by JASMINE JARVIS

CHRYSALIS by KIMBERLY REI

MOUNT TERROR by E.L. GILES

THE RECKONING by STEPHANIE SCISSOM

THE SPIRIT OF RODEO by BETH W. PATTERSON

CARPE DETRITUS by TIM MENDEES

THE BOOKWORM by L.T. EMERY & ANDREAS HORT

THE SALAMANDRION by MIKE ADAMSON

THIS HIDEOUS JOY by JONATHAN INBODY

THE CORONER by J. MOTOKI

FINGERPRINT FORENSICS SHORT READS

DEAD MAN WALKING by DAVID GREEN

MR HANGAN by SCOTT MCGREGOR

TH MYSTERIOUS KILLER OF CATS by ZIAUL MOID KHAN

HELL HARE HOUSE SHORT READS

SEEING by PATRICK WINTERS

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Copyright © 2021 Jonathan Inbody

First published in Australia in August 2021

by Black Hare Press

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All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Edited by D. Kershaw

Formatting by Ben Thomas

Cover design by Dawn Burdett

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For everyone who watched their friends and family become strangers during the Covid-19 pandemic. You are not alone. 

Jonathan

August 2021

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