Abasteron House

by Paula Cappa

Abasteron House is the prequel to the novel Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural. This flash fiction (a short story at 1000 words) was originally published by Every Day Fiction. The story is now included with the short story Hildie at the Ghost Shore, available at Amazon.com FREE. It's also available on Barnes&Noble and Smashwords FREE.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

10 pages, ebook

First published August 23, 2013

About the author

For her three novels, Paula Cappa is the recipient of the prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Gold Medal and the Silver Medal from Global Book Awards, the Bronze Medal from Readers' Favorite International Book Awards, and a Chanticleer Book Award. She is named a Best Book Award Finalist by American Book Fest and achieved the Gothic Readers Book Club Award in Outstanding Fiction.

She is the author of Greylock, The Dazzling Darkness, and Night Sea Journey—print editions published by Crispin Books, Milwaukee WI. Night Sea Journey was featured as an on-air reading at Riverwest Radio, Fearless Reader Radio in Wisconsin.


Cappa’s short fiction has appeared in ParABnormal Literary Magazine, Coffin Bell Literary Journal, Unfading Daydream, Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine, Whistling Shade Literary Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sirens Call Ezine, Every Day Fiction, Fiction365, Twilight Times Ezine, and in anthologies Journals of Horror: Found Fiction, Mystery Time, and Human Writes Literary Journal.

Paula Cappa is a freelance copy editor and writes a short story blog, Reading Fiction, at paulacappa.wordpress.com. She is Co-Chair of the Pound Ridge Authors Society in Pound Ridge, NY.

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Reviews

[M.D. Meyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I stumbles across this book and since it was available for free on Smashwords, I decided to give it a try. It's a short story.

It was a pleasant, easy and very quick read. The writing flows well with good description. I was expecting something with a darker mood (possibly due to the cover illustration) but still enjoyed it. For me the mood was not dark at all but still had a nice mysterious feel to it which increased as the story progressed. I was shocked by the abruptness of the ending. It fit the plot but I was just starting to get into the story. I turned the page, intrigued to see what was about to happen, when it said "End". :( Oh well, it is after all a short story. I would love to see what this author can do with a full length novel.

I had a hard time deciding how many stars to give it. 3 stars was not enough as "I Liked it" is kind of weak, while 4 stars as "I really liked it" is a little overstated. So I guess 3.5 stars would be my preference.

[Elle Klass · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great short. I really love how the author can put so much into a story that takes me about 20 minutes to read and then I'm left wanting more. Grandfather has some strange habits and "friends" while Davida doesn't quite understand she is curious but sometimes things are better left not understood. Grandfathers "friends" aren't what they appear to be and I'll leave it at that.

[Danyel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the author's style of writing and the use of language. His word's were bright and descriptive. I do feel, however, that I kept waiting for something to happen. Something to grab me and pull me in and then before that could happen the story ended.

[Cassandra · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not impressed.

[Jeanine · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story starts well, then ends abruptly. There is an author bio and then a continuation of the story. Confusing format but good story.

[Angela Bain · Rating 1 out of 5]

If I could give this a 1/3 star it would be truer then a full star.nothing about this book made sense

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting short story about a girl growing up with her grandfather who may or may not have mystical friends.