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Dead Weight: A Short Story Kindle Edition

by Ken Stark (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
A short horror story by the multi-award-winning author of STAGE 3, Gaia's Game and Arcadia Falls.

Hal Mitchell is living a nightmare.
Trapped in a body he can no longer control, his entire world has shrunk to a microcosm.

Unable to turn his head, he sees only what is directly before him.
He hears others talking, but cannot utter a word.
His mind is fully active, but its only use now is as a means of escaping to imaginary worlds for a few precious moments, before the pain ravaging his useless body brings him back.

It's as if he has become his own coffin, and he has been buried alive.

As he longs for a death that could never come quickly enough, he must suffer through every horrible minute of his torment alone.

Utterly, desperately alone.

But tonight, Hal Mitchell might not be quite so alone as he thought.
Maybe the nightmare is just beginning.

OTHER BOOKS by KEN STARK:

THE STAGE 3 SERIES
Stage 3: A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Thriller
Stage 3: ALPHA
Stage 3: BRAVO
Stage 3: CHARLIE
Stage 3: DELTA
Billy the Kid (A Stage 3 Short Story)

HORROR NOVELS
Miracle Man: The Rise of an Anti-Christ
Gaia's Game
Arcadia Falls

SHORT STORIES
Born of the Dark
Horrible Little Nasties
Who's Going to Feed Johnny?
Jitters
Killing Joe Prince
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  1. Print length
    25 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Accessibility
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  4. Publication date
    September 9, 2021
  5. File size
    3.1 MB
  6. Page Flip
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  7. Word Wise
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  8. Enhanced typesetting
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09FYMSFXD
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 9, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.1 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 25 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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Ken Stark

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Multi-award-winning horror writer Ken Stark was born in Saskatchewan, but has called Vancouver home for most of his life. He was raised on a steady diet of science fiction and disaster movies, so it seems right that his first published book series be about the zombie apocalypse. In his spare time, Ken tries to paint like Bob Ross and play poker like Doyle Brunson, but results suggest that he might have got it all backwards.

Website: www.kenstark.ca

Twitter: @PennilessScribe

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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Frightening!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2022
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    As I finish reading this short story, the reality is that I'm fair g for my bedridden mother, who has not been the same son each brain aneurysm and two strokes a year and half ago. We aren't sure if the strokes or some of the medication she is on has caused her to have ha!hallucinations and nightmares. But they preferred to her.

    Then it struck me. What if her world now is like the storyline of this book! A truly terrifying thought!

    I know this book will stick with me for quite some time, but I have a feeling it will have the same affect on everyone who reads it!

    If you love horror with just enough temerity to ring true...this story is for you!I

    Well done!
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  • Bri
    5.0 out of 5 stars A skin crawling story!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2021
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    I enjoyed this short story. The writer has a way of writing that sets the imagination on an eye-popping road. What I liked most is the way the author puts the reader’s movie screen inside the mind to work. At the end, instead of being spoon-fed, I was left with a whole scene in my mind. Great Halloween reading.
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  • Terry Tyler
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great little bed time read!!!!!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2025
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    I thought this was excellent - I read it the other night when I couldn't sleep, and thought the way in which Stark envisioned the restrictions of the man's life was masterful. The horror of what happened to him was so real.
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