Freakin Fridays!
Freakin Fridays is my own little meme. I’ll be posting about books, movies, and all things scary.
Feel free to join in and do your own Freakin Fridays posts!
Tune in every Friday. Get your scare on!
Let’s have some fun!
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I’ve got a treat for you today!
Adam Light has a brand new novella just released today!
Check it out.
Serving Spirits
Hunker down for a long night during a brutal hurricane with Natalie and Mitch Whitley. Which one of them will survive the night may depend on a father’s love.
This story was originally published as part of my collection TOES UP and is intended for adults only.
My Review
It was a dark and stormy… Just kidding. But it really was!
Hurricane Gwendolyn is battering the mansion. Natalie Whitley gets through it the howling winds and crash of tress falling by drowning it out with some Metallica. That and a Stoli and cranberry juice cocktail her husband mixed for her.
As the storm beats at the doors and windows, Natalie wishes she were in Vegas. But the mansion should be able to withstand the hurricane. It’s just a matter of waiting for it to pass.
I’ve been through my share of hurricanes and it always seems the worst of the storm occurs at night. All that crashing and howling and loud bumps makes for a long and scary night. Then the power goes out and it really gets bad.
The author sets the mood for you and all you can do is hang on.
You have a great cast of characters. Seth, Natalie’s father, is a famous horror writer and is traveling abroad, researching his next big hit. Natalie is the apple of her father’s eye.
Mitch, the husband, is everything Natalie’s father doesn’t want for his daughter and his suspicions are soon confirmed.
A large package arrives at the mansion. Seth is always sending Natalie odd finds. This one is beyond odd and quite grotesque.
You’re going to love what’s in the crate. From here on, Natalie has to fear what’s in the mansion as much as the storm outside.
Once I knew what was in the crate, I had an idea where this story was going. That doesn’t mean I didn’t relish every word getting there.
Adam infuses suspense, outrage, and terror in stunning doses. While Serving Spirits is a short read, it feels a lot longer while you’re experiencing it.
Looking for something scary for a dark and stormy night. Or a quiet one. I recommend Serving Spirits.
5 Stars
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Now for Toes Up
The complete collection
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Taken
Jack Harden is your average good-old-fashioned American truck driver.
You can ask the girl he’s got duct-taped in the back of his cab, she’ll tell you.
Oh, don’t worry – it’s okay. His wife knows all about it.
She told him to do it.
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Way Out Of Here
Meet Gordon Delanolan. Just call him Nolan, everyone else does. Nolan is bored with life and in dire need of adventure. The only problem is that he has done everything, and there doesn’t seem to be anything else left to add spice to his existence.
Then one night Nolan is shocked and terrified to hear a disembodied voice coming from his navel. Reality, he finds, is much more tenuous than he at first believed.
At first he thinks he may be going insane, but perhaps he has found the way out of his jaded existence afterall.
This short story was originally published as BELLY BUTTON WINDOW, but I have elected to release it under its original title with a modified cover.
It will still be available in the previous format as part of the Light Brothers’ short story collection THE CORPUS CORRUPTUM.
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Gone
Adam Light : “This is my debut published short story. People who have read it compare it to “a lost episode of the Twilight Zone”. Fast paced and surprising; this is a tale of a man experiencing a most unusual, and terrible, sort of day. Fans of suspense, quick and compelling reads, or interested in checking out a fresh author should give it a try. I think you will really enjoy this.”
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Vengeance By The Foot
Like a modern-day Franz Kafka or young William S. Burroughs, blossoming new author Adam Light presents the twisted tale of an unlucky man suffering the misfortune of losing his foot to diabetes. Amputation is a bad thing even on a good day, but it’s even worse when your severed foot holds a grudge.
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The Continuance Agency
Daniel Sharpe survived the end of the world. Now he lives alone, fearful that he may be the last living person on earth. It’s too dangerous for him to venture outside – to try and find other survivors – with that ominous black cloud of death still looming in the sky above.
When a manila envelope mysteriously arrives with an invitation to join “The Continuance Agency”, an organization on a mission to save mankind, Daniel has to decide if it’s worth the risk to try to join up, to see if he can help to save whatever’s left of the world. But deep inside he wonders: is “The Continuance Agency” really what it claims to be?
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Adam Light
I have always loved the written word. I fell in love at an early age and was fortunate enough to have a family that was in love with books. You could say I was nurtured on the language, and as I grow older I realize more and more that there are no boundaries to the impact words can have on everything.
I have been publishing my own stories for a couple of years now, and am inching my way towards the completion of a first novel. Until I finish that project, I will likely continue to pop out short stories here and there, and I am proud to say I just published a collection of short stories titled TOES UP, which contains one brand new story unavailable anywhere else, and five previously released titles.
Thanks to all who have read and reviewed my work, giving an unknown author such as myself a chance to unleash my madness upon you.
There is plenty more to come.
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That cocktail looks delicious. Great title. Just added it to my Goodreads list as I enjoyed his story Vengeance by the Foot.
He can’t write them fast enough for me! That drink reminds me of a Cosmopolitan.
You’re right, it does.
I already have this on my TBR list and I love his books so am eager to read it. Emma summed up the cover and title. ^_^
You’ll enjoy this one too! I’m looking forward to full length novels from both Evans and Adam Light!
Sometimes I wonder how you sleep at night after reading these. O_O
Me too! If I’m really worried about nightmares I just grab a romance and read a few chapters!