Zack Figueroa
In Forever Sleep, author Zack Figueroa descends into the realms of both horror and the supernatural--in the form of twenty new short stories that will keep the reader entranced. An excerpt from the story 'Swim Class' Her tiny blue eyes started blankly ahead, until they fixed themselves in the direction of his glance. He took his eyes off this phantom as he drew his arms forward in a sort of flapping motion as if to swim away. Once he looked back into the general area, he saw that it was the mysterious woman once again. He tried to ask her--what she was, but the only thing that came out was a blurted sound composed of bubbles and vocal cords. All of that meant nothing once he looked down at her legs. What he saw weren't legs at all, instead they looked more like the tentacles of an octopus. Once he looked back up at her upper torso, her arms were suddenly replaced with the pincers that of a huge mutated crab. Below her wide eyes that were now unblinking started to form a huge mouth of serrated teeth that were growing from ear to ear, to the point that her nose was being stretched into nothingness.
