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Mongrel
"Long pig was always better from the young..."
Chubby, nine year old Mongrel was smart - Isaac had told him so. He knew that he had been cursed since birth, and he knew that it was only because of Isaac that his mother had allowed him to survive inside her womb.
On the fateful day that his mother finally left him, surviving on the outside proved to be difficult as well...
"Any evil will lurk in the dark and jump on a small thing as prey."
...and as he sat there alone on his favorite fourth step and waited - waited for Isaac to return with his mother - he found that what came through the door was not Isaac.
What dragged him from his home was not Isaac, but everything that goes bump in the night, and Mongrel soon discovered that the bogeyman would never, ever hide beneath the bed.
Mongrel is a short story from the novel Horror Classics by Angel Berry
Chubby, nine year old Mongrel was smart - Isaac had told him so. He knew that he had been cursed since birth, and he knew that it was only because of Isaac that his mother had allowed him to survive inside her womb.
On the fateful day that his mother finally left him, surviving on the outside proved to be difficult as well...
"Any evil will lurk in the dark and jump on a small thing as prey."
...and as he sat there alone on his favorite fourth step and waited - waited for Isaac to return with his mother - he found that what came through the door was not Isaac.
What dragged him from his home was not Isaac, but everything that goes bump in the night, and Mongrel soon discovered that the bogeyman would never, ever hide beneath the bed.
Mongrel is a short story from the novel Horror Classics by Angel Berry
- GenresHorror
35 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 9, 2016
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June 30, 2017
Angel's books are always a pleasant surprise to me because they are very well formatted and very easy on the eyes.
"Mongrel" is an interesting read, and I will have a hard time with this review if I don't want to give away any spoilers. I like the book cover because it adds a lot to the very first surprise. From that moment, the book gets rather disturbing, describing every little detail that I would not want to read and look at. :D These descriptions give the book a very nice pace, Angel plays with pacing through details very nicely.
I didn't quite understand the epilogue, but it still creates a nice little bracket around the story.
A great read for... for the daytime! :) Not for the night, because you never know when the bogeyman might come for you!
"Mongrel" is an interesting read, and I will have a hard time with this review if I don't want to give away any spoilers. I like the book cover because it adds a lot to the very first surprise. From that moment, the book gets rather disturbing, describing every little detail that I would not want to read and look at. :D These descriptions give the book a very nice pace, Angel plays with pacing through details very nicely.
I didn't quite understand the epilogue, but it still creates a nice little bracket around the story.
A great read for... for the daytime! :) Not for the night, because you never know when the bogeyman might come for you!
July 20, 2017
This was a very creepy story with a gut-punching twist for an end. Mongrel does everything right to be the perfect short story: it plunges you right into the middle of the action, explains just enough to make you understand what's going on without losing itself in detail. It ends with a totally unexpected revealing that made my jaw drop to the floor and left me completely speechless. Just when I thought I knew what horror little Mongrel had to survive, the epilogue put recent events into a rather nasty perspective.
This author really understands what it takes to not only write a short-in-length story, but to create a real short story.
(Thanks to Librarything, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)
This author really understands what it takes to not only write a short-in-length story, but to create a real short story.
(Thanks to Librarything, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)
June 20, 2017
i really enjoyed this short story.quite disturbing in a way,but well written.
September 23, 2017
Nice short story. Freaking twisted! I didn't know what feel about this book. Descriptions are on point and.....wow. Even reading it gave me a grotesque feeling. Elicits a lot of emotion.
September 24, 2017
Mongrel by Angel Berry is a short story given to me in ebook form by Angel Berry via email for an honest review.
🌟🌟🌟This story at first begins as a classic abduction and leads me to the feel of an around the campfire childrens ghost story. I pictured eating smores listening to Grandpa trying to scare the children at a campsite in the woods. You must keep going until the end to understand the story. An oooo and ahhh spooky story of abduction and escape.
🌟🌟🌟This story at first begins as a classic abduction and leads me to the feel of an around the campfire childrens ghost story. I pictured eating smores listening to Grandpa trying to scare the children at a campsite in the woods. You must keep going until the end to understand the story. An oooo and ahhh spooky story of abduction and escape.
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