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Extermination Days
A collection of post-apocalyptic short stories to get you through the End of Days.
In The Twilit World, an American man hopes to reunite with a British woman he fell in love with twenty years ago while studying abroad. He finds the UK is less tranquil now thanks to an outbreak of Bovine+, a variation of mad cow disease that makes people severely mentally ill—and oftentimes dangerous.
Multiple tales then take place during the redbug invasion of the Pacific Northwest. When the cockroach-like redbug makes contact with a person’s skin, death follows within 24 hours. While the air teems with toxic insects, characters must also deal with their personal crises, ranging from unfaithful partners to the failure to become a mother.
And finally, Open Wounds is set in Iran, after the US government has withdrawn all chemical soldiers. During an inspection of a desert palace coated with the residue of the lethal chemical YZ-549, the leader of a post-operation team discovers something still alive—and vengeful—lurking within the contaminated space.
In The Twilit World, an American man hopes to reunite with a British woman he fell in love with twenty years ago while studying abroad. He finds the UK is less tranquil now thanks to an outbreak of Bovine+, a variation of mad cow disease that makes people severely mentally ill—and oftentimes dangerous.
Multiple tales then take place during the redbug invasion of the Pacific Northwest. When the cockroach-like redbug makes contact with a person’s skin, death follows within 24 hours. While the air teems with toxic insects, characters must also deal with their personal crises, ranging from unfaithful partners to the failure to become a mother.
And finally, Open Wounds is set in Iran, after the US government has withdrawn all chemical soldiers. During an inspection of a desert palace coated with the residue of the lethal chemical YZ-549, the leader of a post-operation team discovers something still alive—and vengeful—lurking within the contaminated space.
- GenresHorror
49 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 31, 2020
About the author
David Massengill
20 books27 followersDavid Massengill's latest work of fiction is the Christmas gothic novella Stranger in the Snow (Grendel Press). He is the author of the horror novella Virulent (Demain Publishing) and three novels—Grave Regrets, The Skin That Fits, and Red Swarm (all published by Montag Press). He has also written the short story collections Extermination Days (Demain Publishing) and Fragments of a Journal Salvaged from a Charred House in Germany, 1816 (Hammer and Anvil Books). His short works of literary and horror fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Eclectica Magazine, Pulp Metal Magazine, Word Riot, The Literary Hatchet, and The Raven Chronicles, among others. He lives in the Seattle area. Visit his website at www.davidmassengillfiction.com.
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January 21, 2021
David Massengill’s Extermination Days – a pre-cursor to his equally terrifying Red Swarm -- is a collection of short stories centering on deadly pandemics mostly in the form of grotesque insects that have incredible powers. One might ask “Why not just turn on the news?” Well, these stories are clearly fiction and serve the horror genre well in their exacting details of human demise. We get to know the characters just well enough through sharp dialogue and their surroundings, whether it’s a lush urban penthouse or a rural homestead in Montana. You feel as though you’re a voyeur, just waiting for something horrible to happen. The pay-off is there, and the taut prose does well to create tension in mere paragraphs. Highly recommended for a scary escape!
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