Lovesick Festered Waters and Other Frights

LOVESICK FESTERED WATERS AND OTHER FRIGHTS thrills with four short stories of romance, suspense, and Fantasy. "Lovesick Festered Waters" reveals the misfortunes of Anastasia, Dimitri, and Vlad as they are held at gunpoint by an angry gambler and made to set sail for a voyage to America through the Atlantic Ocean. Anastasia and Dimitri bicker constantly and with each passing day the wood rots out from under the trio's feet.
Dimitri has a secret he's been clinging onto. Will they survive the voyage? Or will the three of them go mad first? "Unhinged" leaves you on edge with Sophia who moves into her fixer-upper house in the dead of winter. She now lives in the middle of nowhere, near Houston, Texas.  She is having a peaceful evening as she watches television. Soon she hears the first squeak, squeak, squeak of the night.
Sophia sets off on a mission to find out if the noises are coming from her attic. What she finds terrorizes her senseless. Can she handle what goes bump in the night? Or will her anxiety get the best of her? "Just Rewards" gives flame to the fire in a love triangle. Santiago Procell is given word to meet a mysterious man at a hotel in San Fernando, California.  He is given word by Maurice, a gangster's lawyer, that tells him his wife has run away with the mob himself, Rafael Capone.
Rafael wants to buy Santiago's silence. Maurice and Santiago sit down for a heart-to-heart, raw emotional battle. Will Santiago get the upper hand over Rafael? Who will be alive to tell the tale? "Lotto Land" makes Angela and Leslie think they are the fortunate ones when they earn a free cruise to Lotto Land, located in Europe. They had to play bingo for at least thirteen years to earn this privilege.
Chances are that they will win a ton of cash each day, and Lotto Land doesn't disappoint. Will they be able to stay here forever and never go home again? They are wondering if their family even misses them. The stakes are never higher in this tale of luck and fortune. gangster's crime, crawling rodents, creepy, gambling addicts, enemies to lovers, hidden secrets, anxiety, hidden agendas, mystery, heartless