I had a happy life,A beautiful little girl and a smiling and content wife,All that was torn from me in a single night. Now all I have is an empty house that I loathe. I have a plan, a way to make it all stop. The horrible nightmares that plague me when I sleep and when I am wake… This must stop!I need to Sleep!Drunken Bliss!It will bring me peace, my final peace if I play it out just right. If … me peace, my final peace if I play it out just right. If the demoness will leave me be. Others have different plans for me, but what of my plans? What of my Oblivion?
Just let me sleep!
I had a happy life, I had a wife, and Daddy’s Angel to give me hugs to make it all just right…
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Daddy’s Angel was a haunting story that left me wanting more. A tragic event decimates the main character sending him to a seemingly idyllic spot that turns out to be a special kind of hell for him. The imagery that is used in the story makes you feel as if you are in the pages of the story as you watch it play out. A fantastic read that I will definitely read again.
Reading for me is about being captured by the words, feelings and imagery that an author can evoke within the pages of their books. It’s my time to just be relaxed and chilled. To be caught up in the story and emotion of the character/s journey – their story. I’m an avid reader of pretty much most genres and certainly for anything that captures my attention, except HORROR! Something I pretty much avoid in both word and movies. I’m the person who would be sitting behind the cushion with her eyes closed tight or walking out of the room if the mere mention of horror is whispered. I just don’t do HORROR. WOW!! what happened here…
Steven Evans – I’m going to say it was the author who is at fault here, some cool friends who are loyal fans of Steven’s work plus my immense fascination for things pertaining to psychology and human behaviour. Still I’m left wondering at just how far that fascination intrigues me. Just a side note… if you want to grab a glimpse of an author’s work – make sure you watch them in a LIVE write. In that one hour – you get to see a couple of authors take an image and in 10 min. spurts – spin a tale. EXTRAORDINARY!! It’s what will make you want to read more of their stories and become that new fan. That’s what happened. Let’s say that live write was imaginative, pretty horrific, and oh so gruesome in detailed word and deed. The level of sophistication in content was ASTONISHING! To see this happen with very little time, is truly an experience not to miss.
I digress… back to DADDY’S ANGEL. I simply wanted more stories by this author. So this was going to be a huge undertaking for me to read. I’ve read books that are dark with horrific, gut wrenching content but this was going to take it to a whole new level, so I was apprehensive.
DADDY’S ANGEL does not disappoint! It’s highly charged, descriptive in content, not for the faint hearted or those with emotional triggers. This story brings you face to face with death. It’s a beautiful love and family that have been lost through tragedy. A man who has lost his reasons for living, consumed by grief and the precis, attention to detail planning to end his life. It’s an emotional roller coaster from the start before the depths of horror and nightmare grip you by the throat.
It’s a look at how we cope and deal as the person left behind, with no visible support from family and friends. Or maybe that support was pushed away. It’s how our grief becomes all consuming, that we become so entangled in our sadness, guilt, and grief that our thoughts become muddied. Once loving thoughts and memories become fuel to a nightmare world, which are further exacerbated under the influence of excessive alcohol consumption. Oh boy!! this is a one way ticket on a road trip to hell.
* Do we invest too much of ourselves into our love and relationships?
* Do we leave ourselves so exposed when a death occurs, we have so reserves or resources left to move forward? That when our loved ones are gone, we are completely lost, barely able to function and at the mercy of our pain and sadness and guilt.
* Do we just give up on life?
* Can we find that momentary speck of redemption, hope and inner strength to bring us back to living, to continue to fight the inner demons and move forward?
DADDY’S ANGEL is your journey that you find yourself on. One that will keep you turning page after page because those words have a tight grip on your mind, wanting more.
Thank you Steven Evans. Not only for your beautiful words found within these pages of sadness and horror but especially for intriguing my inquisitive mind, especially in a genre that is normally beyond me