Liquid Lightning

In a wonderful world where monsters are captured and pitted against each other in joyous battle, people's and monsters' flaws still thunder to the forefront.Indecisiveness, vindictiveness, gentleness, cleverness… some traits get rewarded in the fiery, explosive, chaotic world of Culinpon and some don't.Matthew Atkinson has shake-shake-shake caught an irreverent, satirical monster-catching SHORT STORY from his collection, Liquid Lightning, that will have you wishing monsters were real, but maybe not for the reason you used to.

In a delightful world where monsters are captured and pitted against each other in brutal battle, people are judged by how much they want to conform to the admittedly awesome cultural norms.In a class of high achievers, Coral has thrown in her lot with one of the weakest and lamest Culinpon, even if it's social suicide. What does she know that everyone else doesn't? Matthew Atkinson has trained and evolved an irreverent, satirical monster-catching SHORT STORY from his collection, Liquid Lightning, that will reward your digging for gold.

Sometimes when people are down on their luck they turn to a higher power, and sometimes they look in the opposite direction. Nog is one of these sad summoners, and could use some help from a demon whose name is easy to mess up.And some people don't like it when demons are summoned nearby without their knowledge or permission. Really, that's most of us, isn't it? But has anyone stopped to think of whether the demons really enjoy being whisked away from whatever they were doing? Maybe they do! Matthew Atkinson speaks an unholy incantation to bring you this SHORT STORY from his collection, Liquid Lightning, in which misery loves company across spiritual boundaries.

Nog, the prince of darkness (not that one), is having a swell time at the graveyard shift at his new job at an all-night self-storage facility.But it's important to carefully consider what you keep in a place like this, because there's a risk of something valuable being lost, stolen, played with by a spirit, or sought after by something that really shouldn't have it. Matthew Atkinson opens up his storage unit to bring you this SHORT STORY from his collection, Liquid Lightning, and who knows what might be inside; people leave all kinds of crazy stuff in there.

No patients want to stay in the spiffy new accommodations at Banana's detox center because… the house is haunted! Good thing addiction counselor Gabe Gomez can think outside the box- except when it comes to actually believing in spirits.No ghost-hunter can operate alone, and when Gabe gets assigned a partner, all his beliefs will be put to the test- the spirits want what they want. Boundaries blur, and not just between the material and the spirit world. Ghosts are known to make rooms chilly… that ought to be countered by a source of heat.Matthew Atkinson sends the EMF meter off the charts in this phasmophobic SHORT STORY, in which things formerly unseen are revealed, from his collection Liquid Lightning.

LIQUID LIGHTNING, a short story collection from Matthew Atkinson, strikes with ten monstrous thunderbolts of horror, fantasy, quietude, and sin.They say that lightning never strikes the same place twice but some places are just too good to not come back to, which is why more than one story in this collection concerns the eminently collectible Culinpon monsters ("Thunder / Fire," "Golden Opportunity") and several involve demons in some form or another ("−God = Dog," "Facility," "Good for Your Soul," "Loose Changeling," and "Very Risky," maybe). To round out the storm there's a nihilistic fantasy beatdown in "The Pit of Ambition" and some quieter psychological explorations in "Walled In" and "Light Lock."These stories flow, they are jagged, they are crackling contradictions, they are ugly and elegant. Come out from under your tree and get hit with LIQUID LIGHTNING.For clarity, this collection includes these stories:1. "Thunder / Fire"2. "Golden Opportunity"3. "−God = Dog"4. "Facility"5. "Walled In"6. "Good for Your Soul"7. "Loose Changeling"8. "The Pit of Ambition"9. "Very Risky"10. "Light Lock" LIQUID LIGHTNING, a short story collection from Matthew Atkinson, strikes with ten monstrous thunderbolts of horror, fantasy, quietude, and sin.They say that lightning never strikes the same place twice but some places are just too good to not come back to, which is why more than one story in this collection concerns the eminently collectible Culinpon monsters ("Thunder / Fire," "Golden Opportunity") and several involve demons in some form or another ("−God = Dog," "Facility," "Good for Your Soul," "Loose Changeling," and "Very Risky," maybe). To round out the storm there's a nihilistic fantasy beatdown in "The Pit of Ambition" and some quieter psychological explorations in "Walled In" and "Light Lock."These stories flow, they are jagged, they are crackling contradictions, they are ugly and elegant. Come out from under your tree and get hit with LIQUID LIGHTNING.For clarity, this collection includes these stories:1. "Thunder / Fire"2. "Golden Opportunity"3. "−God = Dog"4. "Facility"5. "Walled In"6. "Good for Your Soul"7. "Loose Changeling"8. "The Pit of Ambition"9. "Very Risky"10. "Light Lock"