A Flash of Red
By Sarah K. Stephens
Genre: Psychological
Thriller
Focusing on three main characters, A Flash of Red details the chaos that ensues when mental illness
invades our most intimate relationships. Professor Anna Klein and her husband,
Sean, are a young couple each struggling with their own misperceptions of
reality. While Anna’s daily anxieties
turn on the axis of her mother’s path into psychosis, Sean escapes to the
alternate reality of love and sex offered online. When Bard, a student of
Anna’s, develops his own obsession with the couple, their already unsteady
world collapses with irrevocable consequences. As focused on providing a
driving plot as it is in presenting multi-faceted characters, A Flash of Red ultimately asks the
question: What happens when we
can no longer tell the difference between what we want and what is real?
About the Author
Sarah K. Stephens earned her doctorate in Developmental
Psychology and teaches a variety of human development courses as a lecturer at
Penn State University. Although Fall and Spring find her in the classroom, she
remains a writer year-round. Her short stories have appeared in Five on the
Fifth, The Voices Project, The Indianola Review, and the Manawaker Studio’s
Flash Fiction Podcast. Her debut novel, A Flash of Red, will be released
in December 2016 by Pandamoon Publishing.
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