With a Demon's Eye

A Short Story

How far would you go to see again?

Conflict photographer, Sara Miles, loves being embedded with the military out in the desert. Her pictures pay tribute to those who fight, suffer, and die for freedom and the images she captures can turn public perception in the never-ending war. Her photography matters. But when Sara is caught in an explosion out on patrol, her eyes are damaged by a face full of shrapnel. She may never be able to see through a lens again.

The military offers her a cutting-edge operation to restore her sight, but it comes with a price.…

A short story with a supernatural edge from award-nominated, USA Today best-selling thriller author, J.F. Penn.

©2023 J.F. Penn (P)2023 J.F. Penn

Eerie story

This is an interesting story with an odd ending. It's not nightmare material, (Thank goodness!) But it is enjoyably scary.

A twist on Horror

I do not want to give away the end. That war is horror is a fact. As a person losing her sight, that to me is a horror. That, for me, six eye surgeries have not helped is a horror. This story surprised me with horror, no less true. I don't think that perfect vision is necessary in order to know horror when you see it. Or hear it since this was the audio version.