Prelude

Preston Child asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this short story.

 

The new horror shocker from Preston Child in which he takes his readers on a bloody journey to Australia.

From one day to another Julian Shark’s life turns into a murderous nightmare. Domestic problems accompanied by school disasters drives him crazy and when he thinks it cannot get any worse, a bloody nightmare unfolds that brings the teenager towards a deadly abyss. Can Julian Sharks escape from the curse of the raven?

 

This short story is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.

 

Curse of the raven

Julian Sharks stood on the cliffs and looked down at the ocean from fifteen yeards and felt slightly dizzy when he thought about jumping into the raging water from here. Gray clouds covered the sun.

He thought about his life and what he possibly could have done wrong to deserve all this: the war zone in his family that got worse day by day and today, even his best friend called him an ‘selfish coward’. Somehow everything seemed to go tatally wrong suddenly.

One week ago his bad luck started; in the morning he found his black rabbit Nikita dead and skinned in its cage - few days after his father lost his job as waiter in the Hyatt Regency. The next day his selfish behavior made his soccer team lose its match and instead of making up for it by a chosen test of courage, he could not jump over his own shadow and walk barefood a

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 05.02.2021
ISBN: 978-3-7487-7388-7

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