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    Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales
    Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales
    Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales
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    Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales

    By Suzanne Tyrpak

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    Take a ride on the Ghost Plane. Eleven twisted tales about life, love, and insanity. Eleven tales that explore the darker recesses. If you’re afraid to look too deeply in the mirror, read no further.

    Scott Nicholson says: “Suzanne Tyrpak shows in these tales that horror can not only
    aspire to literary value, but also explore emotional and psychological terrain that is
    difficult to reach via other roads. Horror can hit you in the gut or mess with your head,
    but at its best it can reach into your heart as well. And these tales reflect perhaps the
    biggest horror of all—that we are alive, and this life is full of pain and death and love and
    sharp edges...

    Enter this circus and let Suzanne show you why horror is the greatest show on earth.”

    This collection of short stories is composed of three segments: Airport Stories, Hot
    Flashes, and Gothica. They range in length from 100 words to over 3000. Total word
    count is approximately 15,000 words, about 55 pages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzanne Tyrpak
    Release dateJul 4, 2011
    ISBN9781452486727
    Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales
    Author

    Suzanne Tyrpak

    Adytum publishes:Suzanne Tyrpak, award winner writer of historical and contemporary fiction. Works include: Vestal Virgin (suspense in ancient Rome), Hetaera (suspense in ancient Athens), and Rosy: a Novel. Short story collections include Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales, and Dating My Vibrator (and other true fiction).Zané Sachs has worked for several large corporations (including a supermarket), and those situations have, in part, inspired Sadie the Sadist. Sadly, she has found, that the current work environment in the U.S. often treats workers as expendable units, comparable to robots. Every day automated systems and machines are replacing human workers. Zané expects to be replaced by a robot any minute. She is currently working on a prequel to Sadie the Sadist, titled Sadie's Guide to Catching Killers, and a psychological suspense novel, Jayne Just Watches.

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    • 2/5
      Terrible writing. Good plots, but not worth the time to see how they turn out. This book was a big disappointment, which is a shame. The author has a good imagination.
    • 4/5
      I dont know that I would call these horror stories though all of them deal with death. Most of the stories are well written and read almost like poetry there are few that left me going "that's it" , but all in all these are very readable stories. Not a bad way to spend an hour or so in the sun.
    • 3/5
      I liked the way Suzanne Tyrpak writes. It was a bit "poetic" and abstract. Things are implied and not directly said but I think it does not go well with the "horror" genre. A lot of stories has good possibilities like "Devil's Mark" and "Ghost Plane" but a lot of the stories were also "undisturbing". When I started this book i was expecting to be spooked but I was wrong. Most of the stories were not disturbing at all as promised by the title. Don't get me wrong, they were nicely written but lacks excitement and a strong plot. As I said, she can expand on other stories but I would definitely not miss "Forbidden", "Pink" and "Graveyard".
    • 2/5
      Mini horror tales twists from work, home and life.*** Author Suzanne Tyrpak offers little short story horror snippets. Ghost Plane, of which the book is titled, is the most promising of eleven stories. The description and sequencing Ghost Plane draws the reader in but does not fulfill the reader’s yearning to know the story behind each of the faceless passengers. While each vignette promises possibilities of much better full-length stories, the author delivers little satisfaction. Each story is like watching a movie trailer; you see the action without knowing what lead up to it and what happens after, just a teaser for what is to
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales. The tales held your interest to the very end and most of the time you could not figure out how they were going to end. They were not bloody or terrifying; however, they did keep you on the edge of your seat wondering how they would end. They were short and fast moving stories. I would like to read some more Tales.
    • 4/5
      Started this book with the intention that it would be another few fun tales of scarey ghost stories. I was wrong. They are scarey but some of them are just as the title says disturbing. The writer has a way about them that makes you think "god I'd hate for that to be me." with the twists and turns in the stories each one has a special click that actually makes you fear the unknown in a little way. Some of them are sad others of them leave you with the "What in the world!?" feeling. Making for a good read. I wish there were a little more and some of the stories I wish had a bit more of an ending but all in all it does not leave you feeling like you wasted your time. It's definately a book for reading and enjoying and even inspiring one to maybe make up their own little horror story.Wonderful book and good author. Looking forward to more.
    • 3/5
      In her short story collection Suzanne Tyrpak presents a haunting array of different stories in the horror genre. They might not be of the bloody and gory kind, but will nonetheless range from creepy to spine-tingling.The stories themselves are of the real short kind, well written and composed, with endings right to the, often terrifying and shocking, point. Yet I honestly can't say that I liked them in their entirety. From the three parts in the book I only really got into the first and the last one, with the airport stories and the gothica tales. The ones in the middle, so to say, didn't touch me that much, or in some cases at all. I even had to wonder about the message of some of them.All in all I have to say that there's an awful lot of talent here in the narrative and the original ideas of each story. It's safe to say I'd love to read more by the author.In short: An interesting collection of dark and definitely disturbing tales!
    • 3/5
      This was a hard book to rate.. as it is a series of short stories. As with any book of short stories, I really liked about half of them and really didn't like the other half. I must say, the writing style is great though.Like: The Airport Stories... but I am biased. I'm a former commercial airline employee myself so I enjoyed the detail and the knowledge and the airline business that went into these three stories. My only quibble is that Graveyard and Blue Angel felt incomplete. In the Hot Flashes category, I really liked the story Pink. Chocolate Kiss was also well done and very disturbing which it is intended to be.Didn't Like: Meditation or Dark Night. Didn't understand the ocean/gym thing at all. Think I'm missing something there. The Gothica category contains three well written stories (two of them with a historical touch) though I can't say they impacted me in any way.
    • 5/5
      I thought this collection of stories was very well written, and easy to follow. Ghost Plane is a collection of 11 stories that defy labels like “flash horror”, and “flash fiction”. The writing is clean and to the point, original, and creative. Most readers think a story must be the size of a small tome to be complete. Not so, it requires reader participation and that is the whole point. I guess these same readers didn’t do so well in school with haikus. Once again, Tyrpak shows what separates the great writers from the average ones. I really enjoyed this collection.(LT member giveaway review)
    • 5/5
      Delightfully wicked, twisted tales! I love horror in any form and these are some perfect examples of short horror stories. I would definitely like to read more!
    • 3/5
      2.75 / 5I found myself a bit disappointed by this collection of stories.There were 11 stories that, with the title page, table of contents, author's note, and blurbs about the author's other books, added up to 50 pages.For me that was a big part of the problem. I think if one to three of the stories was spread over that kind of page count, I would have liked it more.As it is, I was left feeling deflated as, just as I was getting involved with one "story", it finished and the next one started.The other part of the problem for me was that each story felt more like what would have been great as a longer story (or a novella or even a book) was compressed into a "scene" that left me wanting more.Overall, a great start, but would have liked more of a story to each of the stories.
    • 5/5
      GHOST PLANE is a collection from the same talented author that wrote VESTAL VIRGIN, and once again I was not disappointed with her latest work. It is clear that Tyrpak is a veteran with prose, because her writing is clean, concise and eerily true to the narrator's voice - something not easily done without honing one's craft over an extended period of time. The stories in this collection range from eerie (Ghost Plane) to otherworldly (Venus Faded, Burnt Offerings) to the depressingly gritty (Pink) and the controversial (Forbidden) . All the stories in Ghost Plane are executed flawlessly and though they are all different in subject and voice, Tyrpak shows great range in her tales. She seems at ease writing from the viewpoint of a disgruntled airport worker as she does when slipping into the skin of a down-on-her-luck exotic dancer, and each voice remains authentic and true. I read Ghost Plane straight from my phone's app whenever a spare few minutes occurred in my day. And though the stories are short, they are complete and not lacking for anything. I read vestal Virgin and loved it, but I do hope Tyrpak publishes more darker fiction like Venus Faded or Pink in the future, because I'll be first in line to buy it!
    • 3/5
      This is a very entertaining book of short 'spooky' stories. I really enjoyed the read. Well written, easy to follow, and amusing at times. Tyrpak did a good job of grouping her stories and having one lead into the next. Although there are one or two stories in this book which I wouldn't recommend to a younger audience, I think any "mature" person who is interested in ghost stories or even just suspense stories would enjoy this book.
    • 3/5
      This is a very entertaining book of short 'spooky' stories. I really enjoyed the read. Well written, easy to follow, and amusing at times. Tyrpak did a good job of grouping her stories and having one lead into the next. Although there are one or two stories in this book which I wouldn't recommend to a younger audience, I think any "mature" person who is interested in ghost stories or even just suspense stories would enjoy this book.

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    Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales - Suzanne Tyrpak

    GHOST PLANE

    and Other Disturbing Tales

    Suzanne Tyrpak

    This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or events, incidents, or organizations is entirely coincidental.

    GHOST PLANE AND OTHER DISTURBING TALES

    First Electronic Edition July 2011

    Copyright (c) 2011 Suzanne Tyrpak

    Cover Design by Jeroen ten Berge http://www.jeroentenberge.com

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    All rights reserved.

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    Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the text contained herein for any reason is prohibited without the express written permission of the author .

    Table of Contents

    Foreword

    Airport Stories

    Ghost Plane

    Graveyard

    Blue Angel

    Hot Flashes

    Chocolate Kiss

    Meditation

    Forbidden

    Dark Night

    Pink

    Gothica

    Devil’s Mark

    Burnt Offerings

    Venus Faded

    Author’s Notes

    Foreword

    HORROR IS A circus and the main tent is big.

    The genre embraces ghosts, monsters, serial killers, cannibals, natural disasters, and even the worst aspects of love. It’s Scooby Doo and Count Chocula dancing at the same party with Freddie Krueger and Hannibal Lector. The horrorﾝ label gets used and abused, because sometimes the label is trendy—such as in torture porn movies—and sometimes it is used to marginalize the literary or artistic value of a work.

    You’ve probably heard someone say, It wasn’t bad, for horror.ﾝ In the general public’s mind, horror is often considered a juvenile, prurient indulgence, the smut hidden in the back of the store. Even when genre conventions are roped into popular culture, such as in the ubiquitous vampire romance, conventional wisdom expects horror to be cheesy.

    Suzanne Tyrpak shows in these tales that horror can not only aspire to literary value, but also explore emotional and psychological terrain that is difficult to reach via other roads. Horror can hit you in the gut or mess with your head, but at its best it can reach into your heart as well. And these tales reflect perhaps the biggest horror of all—that we are alive, and this life is full of pain and death and love and sharp edges.

    Enter this circus, and let Suzanne show you why horror is the greatest show on earth.

    —Scott Nicholson, Haunted Computer Books

    Airport Stories

    Ghost Plane

    SHE PREFERRED THE airport at night after all the passengers had gone. Preferred the quiet.

    Out here on the high plateau, wind swept away the jet fuel and brought the pungent scent of sage. Tumbleweed, spindly and skeletal, cart-wheeled across the tarmac. Miles away in town lights twinkled against a backdrop of the moonlit Rocky Mountains.

    Carrying her bucket of paper towels and Lysol, she trudged back inside the terminal.

    It was her job to clean the planes, empty out the seat pockets, vacuum popcorn off the floor, dump the lav—jobs the day crew shunned. Tonight she was the last to leave, but she didn’t mind the closing shift. Since the divorce, no one waited for her back at home.

    Computers glowed along the ticket counter. Fly High. Fly High. Fly High. Purple letters floating in a sea of stars as the screensavers kicked on.

    G’night Chuck,ﾝ she called out to the maintenance man.

    He didn’t seem to hear her, no nod of his cowboy hat, just kept walking down the terminal past the car rentals.

    He paused to check the automatic sliding doors, making sure they were locked. Small town, small airport. Come midnight everything shut down. When he reached the bag-belt at the far end of the lobby, he switched off the lights.

    Leave ‘em on, Chuck. I’m still here.ﾝ

    She hated when men did that—pretended not to hear you, ignored you like you were invisible.

    Her ex had been like that.

    The door clicked behind him, and he headed for his truck.

    She ran down the terminal calling, Wait!ﾝ

    Through the glass doors she saw a gray plume of exhaust, red eyes of the tail lights growing fainter in the dark.

    She snapped the light switch

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