The Litter
by Kevin R. Doyle
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GENRE: Horror
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BLURB:
They kept to the shadows so no one would know they existed, and preyed on the
nameless who no one would miss. Where did they come from, and who was
protecting them? In a city that had seen every kind of savagery, they were
something new, something more than murderous. And one woman, who had thought
she had lost everything there was to lose in life, would soon find that
nothing could possibly prepare her for what would come when she entered their
world.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Pam said.
“Still think it was a dog?” her partner asked.
“What else could it have been? It doesn’t take the ME over there to know that
this guy’s been all chewed up.”
“What I’m getting at is it may not have been a single animal.”
“Come again? Are you thinking of a pack or something?”
“Well,” Gonzales said, “just looking at it . . .” He waved his arm in the
direction of the mess on the pavement.
“That’s insane, Enrico. Who the hell ever heard of a pack of dogs attacking
people in the middle of a city?”
“You ever hear of one dog doing anything that even remotely looks like that?”
“What about rats?” she asked the older cop, fearful he would laugh in her
face.
“I actually thought of that myself for a moment there. It’s not the most
far-fetched of possibilities.”
“No?”
“Not at all. Once, I saw what was left of an old wino eaten by rats, back when
I’d been on the force not much longer than you have. But that was a guy who’d
crawled under the porch of a house, probably trying to escape the weather.
Besides, long ago as it’s been, from what I remember, that body didn’t look
anything like this.”
“No, huh?”
“Not really, no. It looked more like he’d been nibbled on till he was worn
down to practically nothing.”
Pam pointed towards the corpse.
“That’s not a bunch of nibbles,” she said.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
A high-school teacher, former college instructor, and fiction writer, Kevin R.
Doyle is the author of numerous short horror stories. He’s also written three
crime thrillers, The Group, When You Have to Go There, and And the Devil Walks
Away, and one horror novel, The Litter. In the last few years, he’s begun
working on the Sam Quinton private eye series, published by Camel Press. The
first Quinton book, Squatter’s Rights, was nominated for the 2021 Shamus award
for Best First PI Novel. The second book, Heel Turn, was released in March of
2021, while the third in the series, Double Frame, came out in March of 2022.
The book is on sale for only $0.99!
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
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