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    24 Hour Nightmare
    24 Hour Nightmare
    24 Hour Nightmare
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    24 Hour Nightmare

    By Gayle Tiller

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    24 Hour Nightmare is a short horror tale with about 6,000 words. It's Friday night and Monica is checking her email from her apartment in San Jose. She hasn't had a date in over six months.

    Monica receives a chain letter email promising that her wish will be granted so long as she forwards the email to 50 people. If she doesn't, she will have a 24 hour nightmare. Monica makes a wish and forwards her email to 47 people. Shortly thereafter, Monica's 24 hour nightmare begins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGayle Tiller
    Release dateAug 5, 2018
    ISBN9780463279144
    24 Hour Nightmare
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    Gayle Tiller

    Gayle Tiller's latest fiction endeavor is "Death of the Eviction Man: An Erika Mudrose Mystery Novella." She is also the author of the suspense novel "24 Hour Lottery Ticket," the mystery novel "No One Is Innocent: A Jasmine Myers Mystery," and the novella "The Ghost and the Document Reviewer: A Mystery Novella." She's also written three short stories. Ms. Tiller is mixed with African-American and Ashkenazi Jewish and she grew up in California. She enjoys learning about her family’s diverse heritage through her hobby genealogy. She also likes oral storytelling, talk radio, and politics.

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      24 Hour Nightmare - Gayle Tiller

      24 Hour Nightmare: A Short Story

      Gayle Tiller

      Copyright © 2018 by Gayle Tiller

      Smashwords Edition

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

      All rights reserved. No part of this short story may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, please email gayletiller@yahoo.com.

      Chapter One

      It’s Friday night and I'm checking my email from my apartment in South San Jose. I wish I had something else better to do. I haven’t had a date in over six months.

      Three years ago, I thought I had found a man that I clicked with on all levels. Michael was in his late thirties. He was handsome, sweet and had a good paying job. It wasn't until I accidently logged into his email, I found out that he had a wife in L.A.

      After him, there was Brian. He was forty and the thing I liked about Brian was that he could make me laugh. But you can only laugh so much. The man was addicted to weed and that wasn't something I was into. Plus, I got tired of the fact that he couldn't hold a job.

      I then tried a no strings attached thing with a guy that I had met online. Craig was a few years younger. We both had gotten out of bad relationships. Neither of us was looking for a long-term relationship. In the beginning, it was great. The sex was awesome. After a few months, I wanted more. I wanted someone that I could call my boyfriend.

      Craig wasn't interested. He

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