Tucker used to be just like everyone else, but lately he’s been getting these stray thoughts.
Wouldn’t it be weird…?
At first, he doesn’t think much of it, even when that thought becomes a reality—it has to be a coincidence. But the thoughts keep coming, and they keep manifesting into the real world.
It is weird, and Tucker isn’t sure where to turn. Can he tell his family? His friends?
Will anyone believe him? Is he crazy?
Can he trust these intrusive thoughts... with his life?
Erica Damon is a writer, equestrian, and artist living in Western Massachusetts. Her compulsively creative nature has led to a collection of ‘what ifs?’ and that sense of wonder weaves its way into her fiction. She writes thriller and horror under her name, and equestrian romance under the pen name, Isla Ryder.
In any genre, her goal is to sweep the reader into her world, keeping it grounded enough in reality that the reader doesn’t question a moment of the action.
This is what she loves helping other authors with, as she has discovered that she enjoys reading books in the early stages even more than published ones and helping writers to spin their stories into something riveting as a developmental editor. If she’s not writing, she’s likely out riding horses while ideas swirl in the background.
A Little Knowledge is a short story that reeled me in from the very start with a well-drawn and relatable protagonist, and kept my attention all the way through to the unexpected, chilling, end.
I loved how the tension kept building, slowly and inexorably. It was all quite subtle and understated, and yet the anticipatory anxiety just kept building inside me. It’s that delicious feeling you get with a well-written horror story, but there’s absolutely nothing gory or violent here. There’s just this constant build of dread that kept me reading until the very end in one sitting.
Well-crafted, excellent characterization and pacing, and an ending that chills you to the bone.