Widows Nest: Short Stories of the Macabre

The stories are filled with fear, rage, emotional instabilities, weaknesses, courage, and evil. Some begin with love as the story; Corners, Saying Goodbye, Rainbow, Fire and Ice, Sustenance, Flying, and Best Friends, and end up in murder. Some of the stories invite evil, others don't, instead, they are, as in flying. People like Jerry Holmes in Shadow, who only dreams it.
Other stories, as in Night, Pockets, Superstition, Mother's Day, Questions, evil finds the characters. In Colony, a science fiction story about giant germs; is just that, a science fiction story with characters that also have emotional problems as it is. Sugar and Spice won 2nd place in a Barnes and Noble contest, is about a woman alone and pregnant when a nuclear bomb hits the United States, and her life changes.
In Wheat Stalks, the characters are not to blame for what happens to them, they do not bring about a bad situation, as in Wanting. The story Scents is the same, death or evil happens through no fault of their own.
The thing is, when evil or death arrives, it's a matter of life or death, fight, or fly, sleep or die.