Light of Tina
Twenty-one years later, Paul Templeton still did not know whether in his old dream he rapes and murders his sister.
The rapist killer escapes. Nightmares torture Paul. If he didn't kill Tina, how can he witness it, dreaming he sees it happen in a mirror? Now a beautiful young woman moves into the neighbor, reminding Paul of Tina? Is the killer after her too?
Though Paul never touched Tina in an unbrotherly way, he loves her with an unbrotherly love. During her life, and for the twenty-one years since her grisly death.
Now a Thai businessman and his beautiful daughter Khamnah move into Paul's neighborhood.
Khamnah reminds Paul so much of Tina it hurts him. She too shines with the light of The World Behind. The transcendant spiritual universe where Tina lives on.
The gleaming light of Khamnah's personality and heart help Paul to ignore the skeptical gibes of the psychiatrist Jack Harrison.
But he can't forget the threat of the slasher rapist the police are looking for. Ten women in the past five months. M.O. similar to Tina's killer twenty-one years ago.
Paul fears for Khamnah's life. He dreads the possibility of history repeating itself.
That night he dreams again, but he does not see Tina's face in the mirror. Instead, Khamnah sits brushing her hair -- until the killer enters.
This short story is NOT for you if you:
1. Freak out at references to "deviant" sexuality.
2. Can not handle a description of nongratuitous rape and murder.
3. Are looking for explicit erotica to feed your own deviant fantasies.
4. Don't wish to consider the borderlines between fantasy and reality, emotional obsession and psychic powers.
5. Prefer stories about 'normal' people. (Though, at a time when 50 Shades of Grey is outselling Harry Potter in England, I for one wonder who really is normal.)
Light of Tina is a short story I think of as horror, but others might use such terms as dark fantasy, paranormal, or urban fantasy.
You also get two free bonuses:
1. A new article, The Story Behind Light of Tina, by the author.
2. The first 13 chapters of the contemporary dark fantasy thriller novel Virgin Blood.
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