Deadly Intermissions: Short Stories of Horror (Paperback)

Meet Ashley Daniels, a freshman at St. John's University in Queens, NY. As an introvert, Ashley enjoys staying to herself, reading books, writing poems and... running for her life? Meet Sam, an 8-year- old boy ready to enjoy his day at the lake. Sam enjoys running away from girls that like him, showing off his swimming techniques and... being the leader of a horrific hoard of zombie children? Meet Veronica....Meet Paul....Meet Timothy....Meet Bianca....Inspired by the 1982 anthology film Creepshow - Deadly Intermissions was created to become a Creepypasta series on a new YouTube Channel. After completing the series, Rivera decided to introduce it as a short story horror novel, rather than posting them online. The main story starts off with two girls, Ashley and Beatrice, who are running for their lives within the first few sentences of the book. As they find different ways of escaping the strangers who are after them, each scene is interrupted by individual intermissions - short stories - which then end, allowing the main story to continue where it left off. What's the difference? Each story enclosed is based on the worst fears provided to M.S. Rivera by friends. The titles of each story are personalized by adding the friend's first name at the top of the page, followed by the main title of their dedicated story. The final story, "Silent Sirens," is based on Rivera's experience with her worst fear, the tornado that took Nashville by surprise at midnight on March 3, 2020.