Eytan Gall
Traps for the living: Of Flash and Fiction volume 2
Synopsis
The things that trap you rarely announce themselves.
Twenty stories of psychological horror, dark fantasy, and surreal fiction. A crack in the wall that keeps coming back. A plate that resets every time you finish it. A boy's drawings that are a little too easy to fall into. Rain that doesn't burn, it just dissolves.
These stories live in the space between the ordinary and the wrong — where grief becomes something that wears your face in the mirror, where a physicist's consciousness rides the curve of time all the way back to before the first star, where the woman everyone called a dangerous witch turns out to be the only one doing the actual work. Where a man wakes in a dream clinic and the ceiling says wake up in red letters, and the only question is whether anyone on the outside is still writing on ceilings.
The horror here is rarely loud. It accumulates, detail by detail, until the thing you should have noticed earlier is standing right behind you.
Author's Note
Writing 'Traps for the Living' was an exercise in exploring the darker corners of the human psyche—those moments where fiction doesn't just mirror life, but begins to inhabit it. This second volume of 'Of Flash and Fiction' is deeply personal, born from a period of transition and reflection on how the stories we tell ourselves can become both our sanctuary and our snare. I hope these pages resonate with the quiet persistence of memory and the unexpected beauty found within the shadows.
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