PK Hrezo

The last place eighteen-year-old aspiring artist, Morgan Jaeger, wants to spend her summer after high school is in the boonies of the Transylvanian Highlands with her estranged father. She never expects to meet the handsome, free-spirited musician, Varujan, who shares her affinity for abstract art. The summer of dread becomes the summer of dreams when Varujan invites Morgan to a secret hideout of underground artists. But when the utopia turns into a thrill ride of terrors that pitch Morgan's life before her eyes she must keep her wits about her or else lose her most valuable asset forever.

A Wicked Thought

Screams fill the dungeon, shrill and agonizing. 


Rooks squawk and whoosh in a blur of feathers and beaks. Trib picks up a strange stringed instrument that looks like a polished wooden banjo and cradles it to her chest. It seems to beat in her arms with the pulse of life. 


Rooks land in sync in front of the chair. 


The girl’s face, heaving and sobbing, morphs into a picture of misery, tear-strewn and red. 


Then silence commands the room, save for the faint moans from the girl’s lips. 


The midnight-black rooks form an ominous circle at the foot of her chair. A lone bird hops out of formation, closer to the girl. Behind it, its shadow grows enormous on the dungeon wall. It must be the only thing the girl sees as the rook draws near. 


The bird’s shadow expands, inch by inch until it overtakes the entire wall … and flies beak-first into her face. 


Chapter 30