Surrealities Part VI

By J. Dean

From the mind of storyteller J. Dean comes the "Surrealities," short story series, a concept rooted in and inspired by weekly television serials such as The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, and The Outer Limits, and classic radio serials such as Suspense, Dimension X, Lights Out, and other regular tales that take the imagination to the heights of exhilaration and the depths of fear.

In "The Embers of Twilight," an amnesiac Russian man finds himself among people hiding from a terror that seems strangely familiar to him. A woman in the corporate world is confronted for questioning a new company policy in "A Spoonful of Sugar."

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. Dean
• Release date: Jul 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215461129

J. Dean

"Taking fantasy in a completely unique direction."This is what J. Dean intends to do with the Vein series. Instead of following the tried and true methods and paths of familiar fantasy mythos, he created an original world for an epic story. From his Michigan residence, he captures the fantasy world of the Vein (and other stories) and imprisons them upon paper, until the day when the words are set free by the imagination of those willing to read them. The Vein series is J. Dean's first venture into serious writing, and he hopes that you will join him on the twists and turns of this ride that is part excitement, part drama, part terror, and all adventure.

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Surrealities, Part 6

A short story by

J. Dean

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Most of us have to fight for the things we think true, and especially against the things we are supposed to think true.

-G.K. Chesterton

The Embers of Twilight

…painintensepaindyingdyingburningtoblacknonoNONONOOOOOOO!

He opened his eyes and was greeted with serenity.

He looked left, looked right. No, this wasn’t right. He was dying, killed by… someone? Something? What was it that drained his life away, leaving behind a pain that seemed to pierce through his body and into his soul? So hellish, so agonizing. It was as if the devil himself had delivered the final blow.

But no fiendish otherworldly beings were present to escort him into the fiery abyss.

Good, he thought. Because he didn’t believe in them--God, Satan, angels, heaven, or hell. All that mattered was the here and now, the world that could be seen, touched, tasted, experienced through emotion and pleasure and pain, and death was simply the final extinguishing of the candle; the wick was not relit anywhere else.

He believed that, right?

He must have, because that was all that registered as a logical answer.

Still, something had terrified him, some distant, nagging memory of a fear so palpable that it had nearly blown out his flame. But what was it? Where was it? And why had it abated?

The answer came to him in