Dark Mind Anthology Volume 1 (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• The young girl in 'What Goes Around': The mysterious girl with black leather pants, long painted nails, glossy red lips, and those milky white orbs for eyes.
• Peggy-Sue from 'First Kiss': Young high school girl with her blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail She believes she is with the love of her life, Kevin.
• Kevin, the mysterious boy from 'First Kiss': Any one who saw him would think him a good looking high school student. He has slick dark hair and long fingers.
• The young woman sitting on the toilet in 'Do Monsters Wear Designer Jeans?': Pink thongs push down to her knees with her designer jeans. She has thin lips.
• The thing in the sewers from 'Do Monsters Wear Designer Jeans?': A solitary creature, with a dual purpose, to feed and tend to it's family.
• Josh from 'Cry Baby Bridge': Young man who just started university. Tall with dark hair and eyes.
• Tom Gallagher from 'A Broken Promise': Rugged looking man always with a five o'clock shadow on his face.
• Layla from 'A Broken Promise': She has long coal black hair and green eyes. She prefers a black cowboy hat and favors dark leathers and their seductive embrace. She has one six shooter holstered at her left hip. The holster is tied around her thigh with a slender leather cord. She sometimes wears a dark duster over her leathers.
• Jonathan from 'A Broken Promise': A large man with many scars from knife fights and brawls. He has large hands and at one glance you know he is powerful. Has the stench of rot gut whiskey and death.
• Mysterious creature fading in and out in 'Expectant Mom': Speaks with an unearthly voice that is almost like a lead guitar with an equalizer. It has a ghostly shape that sparkles and vanishes then reappears, fades back in as it sparkles with a dark blue and greenish light.
• The expectant mom from 'Expectant Mom': A beautiful young woman, who is all alone. She wants to do nothing but good. Her life takes a dangerous turn, which she is helpless to stop, and she finds herself in a position where she has to make a life shattering decision.
• The creature from Hell from 'Expectant Mom': An evil presence who enjoys manipulating and tormenting the innocent, particular those it perceives as being close to God.
• The darkness that is the unknown man that comes calling in the dead of night, from 'Fragile Sanity': Medium height and build, wears a dark hoodie. You wouldn't give him a second glance as he passes by.
• It from 'It Lives With You': Great sense of humor, dislikes cats, particularly 'Night Cats'. Is a master at networking and has many friends who bow down and worship him wherever he goes. He likes to say, "Isn't life grand!" as he kicks up his heels and gives you his most dazzling smile.
• Lovely and so beautiful wife from 'Karma and the Wife': She is absolutely drop dead gorgeous.
• The husband from 'Karma and the Wife': He is soft spoken and nice looking.
• The Mother from 'Love is Madness': She is very pretty. She prides herself on a clean home. She dearly loves her husband and her two children.
• The girl relaxing on her recliner in 'Out for Dinner': A young woman, pretty. Use to the nicer things, a bit spoiled.
• Lenard from 'Taking Out The Trash': The loving husband
• Karen from 'Taking Out The Trash': The loving wife.
• Return appearance but best remain nameless as I can't put a spoiler warning tag on the name.: You will see.
• Mom and dad from 'The Doll': Typical loving couple. They are expecting the birth of their daughter any day. She always wears clothing that covers up her arms and legs.
• The Narrator, from 'The Glove': Well dressed and meticulously groomed. Everything about him exudes wealth and power.
• Susan Blackwell: A young homeless girl of perhaps 14 years. Dirty blonde hair flows out from her blue and yellow knit hat she pulls down tight over her head. She wears dark knit gloves with the fingers cut out of them. Her face is slender and has an angelic quality about it. Her leggings have a few holes in them allowing the bitter cold in. She has very skinny legs. Her nose is always tinged red from the cold and is always runny. Her dark coat is to large for her and she wipes her nose with the back of her coat sleeve.
• The pretty girl from 'The Hood': She has long black tresses, ruby red lips and sparkling blue eyes. Her dresses are so much nicer then the other girls and she has beautiful jewelry. None of the other girls in her village own a single piece of jewelry.
• The old lady from 'The Porch': She wears dirty old clothes. She reeks of body odor and snuff.
• The man who's car broke down from 'The Porch': Dressed in a wrinkled suit with his tie loose. People would take him for a travelling salesman and they would be right.
• Across the street neighbor woman from 'The Porch': Average looking, dressed in a long dress with an apron.
• Jolene Smith: The young woman waiting at the train for her love to return to her. She wrestles internally with how to break a certain bit of news to him.
• Timothy Riley: The love of Jolene's life that she waits for at the train station.
• The woman from 'The Unexpected': A beautiful young woman travelling all alone.
• The servant and the master from 'The Unexpected: I can't say to much about this pair or it will spoil it and there is no way to hide what they are here so pick up the book and read it. ;)
• Jimmy from 'Under the House': Just your average every day boy curious about sex and girls.
• Peggy from 'Under the House': The cute girl who lives down the block.

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• ““You can't escape, silly boy.””

  What Goes Around

• ““Oh, quit teasing me, you! Kiss me now!””

  The First Kiss

• ““Mama, look at this! These they call designer jeans?””

  Do Monsters Wear Designer Jeans?

• ““Happy Birthday to me…””

  Cry Baby Bridge

• ““Naïve and stupid as well; this is going to get interesting.””

  A Broken Promise

• ““If you say so, she is a looker.””

  Expectant Mom

• “The non-existence you desperately search for when they strap you to a padded chair and you feel the electric ripple jerking your muscles as it surges through you making you gnash your teeth against the foul tasting rubber gag they shove in your mouth. You drool, jerk and piss yourself. They strip you of your dignity.”

  Fragile Sanity

• “Wanna steal my breath? Wanna eat me? Who's your pimp daddy now?”

  It Lives With You

• ““Jake, you sure about leaving him alive?””

  Karma and the Wife

• “Will he call tonight? He better; I want to go out for dinner.”

  Out for Dinner

• ““No explanation required, bitch!””

  The Doll

• “I knew he would give it to me!”

  The Hood

• ““Buba, there will be another car nearby.” She paused, listening. “No, I saw only one, a stranger.””

  The Porch

• ““William did ask you to the prom, though you couldn't go because you fell and broke your leg. Such a clumsy thing you were back then. My Master enjoyed the irony of it. Actually it was he that commanded and it was I that arranged it.””

  The Unexpected

• ““No! I don’t want to go under there with you Jimmy! I’m gonna tell your mom you wanted to play doctor with me under your house! You just want to see me with no clothes on like you did with Susie! Well I am not stupid like her!””

  Under the House

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• What Goes Around Comes Around: self-explanatory
• Evil comes in all sizes.: Evil can approach with small subtle steps. Suddenly, you find yourself surrounded and not really sure how it happened to begin with.
• Heaven vs Hell with men and women as the spoils.: As seen through the eyes of the characters, catching a glimpse of the spiritual battle that takes place all around them, unknowing to them, most of the time. Or drug into it, helpless, with no control over what happens.
• How dark the human mind can be, and how fragile it is; and how fragile we all are: Darkness of self. We all have a darker side, with or without a broken, fragmented mind. Our sanity is fragile, just as our mortality is.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Wilbur Ochiltree (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Ognen Petrovski (Cover Artist)

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

I would not recommend any story of this volume to be read by a child.

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Dark Fantasy

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• Amazon.com author website: It is a site provided by Amazon.com