Slash

by Jonathan Charles Bruce

Olivia, new to her high school and not wishing to spend the night alone, attends an annual party hoping to socialize with her peers. When the doors slam shut, what the partygoers think is a prank rapidly turns into a nightmare of flame. A killer stalks through the fire, carving a path destruction toward Olivia. Escaping with the help of a stranger, she must continue to evade the unstoppable hunter or fall victim to the living nightmare. As the body count rises and Olivia is pushed ever closer to her own death, one question why her?

86 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2020

About the author

Author of Washed Hands, Project Northwoods, and Improbables, Jonathan Bruce began writing what amounted to terrible Star Trek: The Next Generation fan fiction when he was four... provided that you accept that "forcing other people to write what he said" is the same thing as "writing". Although the original manuscripts are lost (or perhaps destroyed), we can rest assured that his prose has improved significantly since then. After high school, he began writing and directing plays which gradually improved depending on whom you ask. He discovered his love of a good fight scene after writing a Dracula knock-off which took a 19th century classic and made it less about Victorian yearning and 300% more about stabbing things in the jugular.

He has a Master's Degree in History, thanks largely to his thesis focusing on MUSIC, a Milwaukee-based school desegregation campaign during the 1960's. He also enjoys discussing/making fun of pop culture of the 20th century and reading books of a non-historical nature. In his off moments, you can catch him writing for fun or making inane movies about nothing in particular.