Ronald Masterson is haunted by the present, haunted by a past he can't shake, and haunted by a future with the the most horrifically perfect woman imaginable. Because each day he fails to solve the mystery that stalks him, it's another step down the long spiral staircase of The Insanities, another step towards his fate at the hands of the familial tremor, another step closer to the consequences.
Professionally published writer Alistair Ainscott writes tales of science gone haywire, men gone mad, oddballs gone even odder, twin toddlers run amok, cats doing the things that cats are given to do, and other nefarious goings-on of the mysterious and the unknown.
His fiction has appeared in the professional-paying Penumbra magazine of speculative fiction from Musa Publishing, and he has also studied short fiction with Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith.
If you liked this story, you might also like these other stories by Alistair Ainscott:
* The Flies Dropped Dead : A Short Novel
* Five Strange Obsessions: A Five Story Collection
* Five Tales from the Workshop at the End of the World with Kris 'n' Dean
* The Thriller Writer's Workshop
* Trinity of the Sands