Robert Bruce Scott

Wide Awake and Staring Robert Bruce Scott

Wide Awake And Staring - Readings for 3:00am - is a collection of funny horror stories, each quite different from the last, that twist dream imagery, hack&slash fantasy, and science fiction into charismatic stories that will make you gasp and make you laugh. The stories in this collection range from tall tales to fairy tales to horror, mystery and the dreamworld: A hideous troll builds a giant rope and uses it to lasso a rocket ship that has just passed the moon and bring it back to earth... A villiage elder rows his boat across a river to the forbidden shore to seek his long lost son... A troop of thieves disguise themselves in women's clothing in order to sing to a magical cat... A stunningly beautiful computer programmer murders her lover and escapes into the past... A soul-eating demon haunts a Scandinavian forest and is ambushed by brave knights on horseback... A mysterious bureaucrat poisons a delusional mayor to save an ugly little town... Two gruesome giants are attacked by a drunken woman weilding a cow's leg bone... An evil sword takes control of a desperate man and tries to devour his soul... Two hapless dogs get arrested during their forlorn attempt to find a place to pee... Giant snowy owls swoop down from a telephone line to attack the author and send him sprawling... Robert Bruce Scott is a writer and musician based in Indianapolis. For more information: www. RobertBruceScott.com