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    Another Man's Wife plus 3 Other Tales of Horror
    Another Man's Wife plus 3 Other Tales of Horror
    Another Man's Wife plus 3 Other Tales of Horror
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    Another Man's Wife plus 3 Other Tales of Horror

    By David Bernstein

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    Another Man’s Wife is a story about infidelity and what it can lead to for a small town delivery man.

    Comes With Baggage is a supernatural revenge tale about a man who has undergone a radical surgery.

    The Serial Killer’s Ghoul: What happens when a killer gets his hands on a book about raising the dead to serve his needs?

    The Lake Pact is a monster tale that deals with a community’s secret and the cost of keeping it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Bernstein
    Release dateApr 19, 2011
    ISBN9781458042873
    Another Man's Wife plus 3 Other Tales of Horror
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    David Bernstein

    David Bernstein spent twenty years residing in NYC. Missing the countryside, with its chainsaw- wielding maniacs, werewolves and backwoods dwellers, he moved back to Upstate NY where he was raised and feels much more at home. He spends most of his time with his wife and daughter when not writing, reading or hiding bodies.

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      Another Man's Wife plus 3 Other Tales of Horror - David Bernstein

      Another Man’s Wife

      Plus 3 Other Tales

      David Bernstein

      Another Man’s Wife

      Plus 3 Other Tales

      By David Bernstein

      Copyright 2011 David Bernstein. All Rights Reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      Cover design by David Bernstein

      Interior formatting by Kody Boye

      Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means (electronically, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the proper written permission of the copyright owner except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This book is a work of fiction. People, places, events and situations are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living, dead or undead, or historical events, is purely coincidental.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Another Man’s Wife

      Comes with Baggage

      The Serial Killer’s Ghoul

      The Lake Pact

      Another Man’s Wife

      Garrett Mulney had been making love to Beth Wilcox when her husband came home. The sound of tires scrunching across the pebbled driveway alerted the lovers. The two paused, still in oneness, listening. The room, moments ago alive with moans and whispered profanities, now suspended in quiet like an old forgotten graveyard. Garrett jumped up as if Beth’s body had become a rotten corpse.

      It’s probably a delivery truck, silly, Beth said.

      Garrett peered out of one of the bedroom’s windows. It was a blue pickup, shiny with large tires.

      It’s Harold, Garrett said, his glistening penis losing its stiffness as he stood naked.

      What? Beth yelled. He never comes home early. She grabbed her lover’s clothes and threw them at him. Garrett caught the pants; the rest falling at his feet. Get dressed and go out one of the windows. The garage roof was a few feet down and would make for a safe and quick exit.

      Garrett and Beth got dressed in hurried fashion. Beth made the bed while Garrett attempted to open a window.

      Won’t budge, he said, tugging hard, veins showing in his neck.

      Go out another then.

      Garrett tried the other two windows, but the result was the same. Frustrated, he punched the wall. A small framed picture of Beth and Harold skiing somewhere in Vermont fell from its hanging place. The glass cracked, sending a line across the face of husband and wife, but the frame held.

      Sorry, Garrett said. He bent to pick it up.

      Leave it, Beth yelled. Get out of here.

      Where?

      Go out the bathroom window down the hall, Beth said, fluffing Harold’s pillow.

      Garrett sped down the hall. Harold hadn’t come inside the house yet as far he could guess. He tried the bathroom window, it was locked too. Damn it, he mumbled. What’s with this place?

      Beth was at the end of the hall, standing atop the staircase. Garrett waited, watching for a signal. She yelled a whisper, He’s at the front door, her hands fluttering at her sides like a butterfly’s wings.

      Garrett came out of the bathroom, Window won’t open in there either.

      Hide in the closet, Beth said. She ran to the door next to her bedroom and opened it. Garrett hurried over, unsure about Beth’s plan, his widening eyes indicating his displeasure. Beth shot him a desperate glance, her face, pale like she was about to vomit and ushered him in. Wait here and be quiet. She shut the door.

      The closet was roomy, a walk-in. A small amount of sunlight came in from under the door, not enough to make anything out except for a couple pair of men’s boots off to the side. Garrett waited nervously as sweat began building in the crux of his back and under his armpits. He held is breath as he heard Beth’s voice approaching. She was talking to Harold, nonstop, as if to keep him busy. Garrett squirmed a few inches away from the door as Beth and Harold’s shadows blotted out the sunlight that shown across his sneakers.

      Garrett Mulney had been delivering groceries to the people of Mayfair for three years. He was a good looking twenty six year old. He’d met Beth six months ago while she was shopping in the local grocery store, G-Mart. They flirted,

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