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Epeolatry Book Review: The Lord’s Prayer: A Series of Horror by Dawn DeBraal

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Title: The Lord’s Prayer: a Series of Horror
Author: Dawn DeBraal
Genre: Horror Collection
Publisher: Zombie Works Publications
Publication Date: 15th July, 2024
Synopsis: Encased inside are fourteen short stories, all inspired by verses from the Lord’s Prayer.
In every anecdote, the main character is tested in some way. How they come out in the end is dependent on their moral make-up. Some of them will fail because flesh is weak, some will come out very changed because of the difficulty they faced, or avoided, and some won’t make it out alive, giving in to sin and despair.
The Lord’s Prayer is readdressed through the eyes of children, the elderly, those who want to make something of themselves, the rich, poor, arrogant, liars, cheaters, drug dealers, greed mongers and snake charmers.
Not every facet of humanity is beautiful, but we were given a prayer to pray to help us through the hard times. If you truly believe, there is hope

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Unholy Trinity: Alzheimer’s by Dawn Debraal

Our church worships at the altar of the Unholy Trinity. Its gospels are delivered as a trio of dark drabbles, linked so that Three become One. All hail the power of the Three.

Giving Away

 

“Edna!” Hank Reynolds ran down the road after finding the screen door torn from its hinges, his wife missing. In the distance he could hear his partner of forty years screaming for help. He should have taken the truck, there was no way he’d ever catch up to her. His legs were tired, and he was out of breath. Hank bent over heaving trying to get breath into his COPD afflicted lungs. To hell with it, the woman had been on his nerves. Maybe it was the dementia that made him forget he could no longer run, maybe it wasn’t.

 

Giving Up

 

When Hank Reynolds reached home, he dragged himself up the stairway, completely drained of energy. The brain eaters, that’s what he called them, had taken his wife. He went after them, forgetting he had a truck. Hell, he’d forgotten how to drive. Hank ran until he could no longer propel himself forward wondering why they hadn’t taken him instead of his beloved wife… what was her name? Then he remembered he had dementia, his father had it, now he was afflicted. It most assuredly prevented them from harvesting his brain. Those abominations could smell a bad brain a mile away.

 

Giving In

 

Edna didn’t make a sound when the horde killed her, they fought over her brains as she was the last living human in the area, it was time for them to move on. 

“There’s a man back there, where we got the woman,” the thought ran through them collectively, they were of one mind and near starving. 

“We’ve got no choice, it’s him, or die.” Poor Hank succumbed in seconds his brainless body quivered on the ground.

“Where now?” The swarm asked their leader. “I don’t know.” The horde was doomed, by eating Hank, they were infected with his disease.

 

Dawn DeBraal

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin and has published over 600 drabbles, short stories, and poems in online ezines and anthologies. Nominated for 2019 Pushcart
Award, runner-up in the 2022 Horror Short Story Contest, 2023 Finalist Owl Canyon Hackathon. You find them on Facebook @AllTheCleverNamesWereTaken.