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There Is Something In The Sky: A 60-Minute Horror
In this Black Mirror-style series, each Witching Hour thriller will take you on an edge-of-your-seat journey that can be finished in a single sitting.
After the death of his wife, Joe Santos was ready to settle into a quiet life in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. But, when an unidentified object crashes near the local military base, he is thrown into a mystery of astronomical proportions. In this winding tale of mourning, conspiracy, and violence, There Is Something In The Sky will take you from the quiet reaches of space to the quiet spaces you can't quite reach.
After the death of his wife, Joe Santos was ready to settle into a quiet life in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. But, when an unidentified object crashes near the local military base, he is thrown into a mystery of astronomical proportions. In this winding tale of mourning, conspiracy, and violence, There Is Something In The Sky will take you from the quiet reaches of space to the quiet spaces you can't quite reach.
59 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 1, 2023
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Dan DeLuise
27 books11 followersHi. My name’s Dan. I’m a #1 Best-Selling Amazon Author and an avid consumer of all things creepy. I have been writing stories my whole life, but only started sharing them with the world during the pandemic when I discovered the NoSleep subreddit. Since then, I have continued to evolve those stories, turning them into full Amazon series, podcasts, and a scary story substack called "Sunday Scaries: Dan DeLuise's Scary Story Club". Currently, I have four series available on Amazon: The Other Place Trilogy (Dark Fantasy), The Witching Hour (Horror Thriller Novellas), Five-Minute Frights (Scary Stories), and Gather Round (A Horror Anthology). In my free time, I like to hike, watch movies, and draw portraits of my cat "Spooky".
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August 13, 2023
I saw the preview for the book and downloaded it that minute. A grumpy character that’s way too peculiar about the state of their burned breakfast toast? Hooked!
Unfortunately for both of us the charm didn’t last.
This novella follows a dad with a dead wife, who has a dad with a dead wife and conspiracy theories, and a son who’s teacher is concerned about him.
This novella features an Army base and I read this while on an Air Force one. It’s pretty clear the author got their information on how they operate from pop culture.
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The school shooting wasn’t handled well. It wasn’t insensitive or anything, but why have that shocking of a scene and then not draw it out a bit? It was super rushed for what it was, a huge missed opportunity to show (not tell, another pitfall) some more about the dad’s feelings and more chaos.
The aftermath of the school shooting made no sense to me. Why is the base commander relevant in the interrogation? The crime happened off base so the military police wouldn’t have jurisdiction, the local civilian force would. The only thing linking the military to the crime itself was one of the victims being a dependent of a service member, yet the base commander himself is leading the interrogation alongside the civilian force? I get that it’s personal to him specifically but it seems like an odd choice to me as it doesn’t make sense.
Also the Commander’s line about how he and “other guys at the base” laugh about the grandpa’s conspiracy theory calls made me laugh too but for the wrong reasons. There’s no way the commander personally hears those calls, it’s definitely a junior enlisted or bottom nco max instead. (While they’d definitely laugh amongst themselves, there’s no way that would get outside the office)
It also kinda pissed me off that the dad pretty much went “But he’s my son!” after the kid BECAME A SCHOOL SHOOTER
Unfortunately for both of us the charm didn’t last.
This novella follows a dad with a dead wife, who has a dad with a dead wife and conspiracy theories, and a son who’s teacher is concerned about him.
This novella features an Army base and I read this while on an Air Force one. It’s pretty clear the author got their information on how they operate from pop culture.
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The school shooting wasn’t handled well. It wasn’t insensitive or anything, but why have that shocking of a scene and then not draw it out a bit? It was super rushed for what it was, a huge missed opportunity to show (not tell, another pitfall) some more about the dad’s feelings and more chaos.
The aftermath of the school shooting made no sense to me. Why is the base commander relevant in the interrogation? The crime happened off base so the military police wouldn’t have jurisdiction, the local civilian force would. The only thing linking the military to the crime itself was one of the victims being a dependent of a service member, yet the base commander himself is leading the interrogation alongside the civilian force? I get that it’s personal to him specifically but it seems like an odd choice to me as it doesn’t make sense.
Also the Commander’s line about how he and “other guys at the base” laugh about the grandpa’s conspiracy theory calls made me laugh too but for the wrong reasons. There’s no way the commander personally hears those calls, it’s definitely a junior enlisted or bottom nco max instead. (While they’d definitely laugh amongst themselves, there’s no way that would get outside the office)
It also kinda pissed me off that the dad pretty much went “But he’s my son!” after the kid BECAME A SCHOOL SHOOTER
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