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Point Blank: A Short Tale of Macabre Family Faults
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Point Blank: A Short Tale of Macabre Family Faults
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Point Blank: A Short Tale of Macabre Family Faults
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Point Blank: A Short Tale of Macabre Family Faults

Written by Justine Avery

Narrated by Derek Shetterly

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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If you can't stand the pressure... ask your mother to stop pointing the gun at your head.

Steven is a writer, by all accounts of self-proclamation. But no artist can be expected to work under serious pressure, especially not when the pressure consists of his own mother indenting his tender skull with the muzzle of the pistol held in her hand.

Suddenly, it's write or die for Steven. He better tap away on that typewriter or expect to be extracted from the land of the living before he's had the opportunity to finish anything he's ever written. Not to mention that his recently departed Father lying on the floor beside him should supply enough motivation.

When Steven manages to frustrate his murderous mother to no end, his wish made under duress actually comes true. Mother's vanished... along with all evidence of the foregoing incident ever having taken place.

Is his beloved father really dead? Is his own mother now a criminal on the run? Can he truly never cure his lifetime disease of writer's block?

Only one person can uncover the truth and set the world to rights again. That would be Tim, Steven's much more successful, though younger, brother. If only Tim would actually believe Steven's retelling of the frightful situation he's just managed to survive.

Someone's got to fix the latest family faux pas. And everyone in the family knows it can't be Steven.

In the dead of night, two brothers battle sibling rivalry, serious mother issues, one heinous surprise after another, and a lifetime of family strife to get to the bottom of it all and uncover what's been lying beneath all along.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 15, 2018
ISBN9781948124133
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Point Blank: A Short Tale of Macabre Family Faults
Author

Justine Avery

If you love where storytellers Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, O. Henry, and Ray Bradbury take you, then you have a new name to learn and love... Professionally, Justine Avery first traversed the murky corporate world of writing and designing technical documents to navigate through writing countless travel stories, reviews, personal essays, and articles. She is now the multi-award-winning author of numerous short stories and novelette-length works. Personally, she has been writing since first falling in love with reading and words themselves, always viewing everything happening around her—and in her imagination—in the form of images translated into poignant phrases and intriguing sentences. She has written under many different names in many different genres, and is finally coming "home" to write, as herself, the stories that transcend genre. Avery has lived countless stories, takes note of the infinitely more all around, and loves and appreciates every kind. As an avid reader of all genres, both fiction and non, she knows we, as readers, may have preferences, but we’re all—just as naturally—fans of every genre... when we find the stories with real intrigue that have no bounds, that have universal appeal. Those are the stories she prefers to find... and write. "Story's in everything we say and do. Story's what drives us, scares us, changes us. We live stories, imagine them, fear some of them. They're who we are. I'm a story reader, writer, and seer. I find everything about life and in this big, wide world (and beyond) utterly fascinating. Stories should be the same. I hope you enjoy the hell out of mine." Justine Avery loves to connect with fellow readers and writers, explorers and imaginers. You can find her at JustineAvery.com, on Twitter.com @Justine_Avery... and between the lines of that new book you've been reading.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    My first response: Justine Avery, YOU are one twisted person! This novella was everything it was touted to be... yet... still.... it caught me unaware and chomped off my head with that final twist! My second response was to ponder: I wonder what YOUR motivation was... then my final thought: NO, never mind, I don't want to know! BRAVO! ** I won this in a GOODREADS giveaway. **
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I really enjoyed this one. The story was clean and didn't leave me hanging. It would have been better though if the story was a bit longer. Such as what happened when everyone found out? What completely happened in the end? Other than that it was a great read and I would read again.*I won this book from a Library Thing giveaway. My views and opinions are unbiased and I am giving my honest review.