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Donna Leach lives in California. She is a freelance writer, belongs to the Visalia Writers Critique group, and has also penned several short stories.
Reviewed by Anne Boling for Readers' Favorite
Donna Leach offers readers four short stories:
The Mortician’s Son
In The Mortician’s Son the Flying Handyman is hired to do some repair work. Patrick shares some startling family secrets with the repairman. Does his dad really collect bones and sell them. For years the Handyman debates whether or not to call the authorities.
The Double B (Baby song)
Shelley takes a job at an orphanage. The children are very small and very vicious. Once a month they play a game. This month Shelley is the hunted.
Stranger Beneath The Bed
Paula has been hiding under the bed for three days. She is very careful not to be detected. When her Aunt Lily cut off the money she had taken to sleeping in parks but winter was on its way and Paula needed a warmer more comfortable place to stay.
People of Shadow
Adam offered Buck fifty dollars to take him to the Shadow Meadows. Buck had seen the Shadow People with their empty bottomless face. Buck took Adam to an old cabin owned by Pops. There was something odd about Pops, about the way he winked at Buck. Adam is searching for his father and expects to find him in the empty bottomless face.
These four short stories are connected. They are all about the same family. With family like this can you imagine the family reunions? This is not a family you would want to marry into.
There is more than one type of horror. There is classical horror such as Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock. They used suspense and allowed the fear to build. While not everything was logical you could make some form of sense out of it. There is a current trend to produce stories that scare and gross people out without having a true meaning. These stories fall into the latter category.
Do not read these stories late at night when no one else is home or in the woods on a camp out. Warning: leave the lights on.
