“Freeing herself, she immediately took off the ropes from around her wrists and raised the sack above her head. As soon as she did she screamed with terror. The whole room was engulfed in blood—the walls splattered, pools all around the bodies, arms and legs split apart, heads severed from shoulders. She stumbled backwards away from the sight. She tried to run but the pain in her body from the beatings was intolerable, and her feet slid through a puddle of blood, causing her to fall next to a bodiless head that stared at her with still-open eyes. She pushed the head away, making it bobble over from nose to ear and ear to nose, leaving an oozing trail until it finally stopped next to the bottom half of an eviscerated corpse.†My Heart Swims in Blood: The Cerro Brujo Diary, by L.G. Daleney, is just one of fourteen twisted tales of horror and the macabre brought to you by Mbedzi Publishing. The eclectic group of writers have brought their best offerings of depravity, mayhem, and nightmarish suspense to create… Sadistic Shorts – Tales from the Devil’s Drawers Don’t look out the window and, for goodness sake, don’t open the door. Keep it tightly shut and bolted and…no, wait, perhaps you might need to escape in a hurry from something—or someone—already inside. Perhaps it is too late, for here are horrors too gruesome to behold alone on a stormy night, when the lights are flickering and the tree limbs are scratching against the shutters. A collection of stories of lies and deception; of cold-blooded killers; hot-tempered sailors; masochistic victims, and grotesque monsters from the past will bring your worst fears slithering after you as you scramble to get away. Here are sharp knives, last words, deeply-digging shovels, broken glass, wrecked cars, torn bodies, and shattered lives. Here are hellish demons, witches, ghosts, creatures of the night, strangers wreaking destruction, and the ones closest to you that you never saw coming. Here are twisted endings to keep you forever hoping for the dawning light of a new day. It may never come, for here are… Dig Set Spike Block Serve, Ground Rate, and Retention by William G. Sells Jigsaw, and The Summoning by Michael Koogler Liana by T.J. Lord Liar by Dan Otsuki Adding it Up by V.K. Schilling The White Squirrel by Jed Q. Peterson The Audition by Dennis W. Green The Broken People by Drew Wood The Puzzle Piece Person by William Whitehurst The Battle of the Ageless by Brian Wood and Frank LaVoie My Heart Swims in Blood: The Cerro Brujo Diary by L.G. Daleney