Burden

De: Matt Duchossoy

Narrado por: Louise Cooksey

Ellen’s son hates her. Her husband wants a divorce. Her only solace is in her work.

A nightshift at the morgue turns sinister when bodies start arriving at an alarming rate. The drivers are weird, sarcastic, and seem to be playing some kind of game. The cadavers are even stranger.

With darkness closing in on all sides. Ellen must venture into a horrifying parody of her hometown to save her family before they’re lost forever.

Burden is a terrifying tale of guilt, grief, and betrayal.

©2022 Matt Duchossoy (P)2023 Matt Duchossoy

What a wild and bizarre ride. I loved it!

That was a wild ride. It went a completely different direction than I thought it would be. I was unnerved at the thought of the main character working for a morgue. The first third was tense similar to the atmosphere of the beginning of autopsy of Jane doe. You get a false sense of security like oh just an average morgue story , strange body strange things I’ve read this before. Then it’s just bizarre and you’re immersed into the story. Then the ending was crazier so many twists. The audio was great the actress really brought the main character alive. I laughed aloud at the noise she made at a certain time stamp. I played it twice lol

Burden

Spooky, bizarre, and much deeper than I expected. Weird things start happening out of nowhere to the very intriguing main character, Ellen. I listened to the audiobook and had to backtrack sometimes to try to figure out how we ended up in such an strange scene with peculiar things happening.

The audiobook narrator brought Ellen and the story to life very well. The pacing was great! I wanted to keep listening to hopefully figure it all out in the end. At first listen, the ending seemed too simple but after I listened again and thought about it I was more satisfied. I see that it could have multiple interpretations and that goes well with the story. It’s kind of the perfect ending.

highly reccomend

This was such a fun and bizarre book.
For how short it is it does such a good job in keeping the atmosphere, and characters that are developed.
I wish it had kept its mood until the very last second, but the rest of the book is just so unusual that I don't mind.

Beware of What Lurks ....

Thank You Matt Duchossoy for gifting this really skin Crawling Psychological Thriller.

This Disturbing short story is filled with Jumpscares and Funny Humor to Break Up the mounting tension . The Twist was really surprising . It really is a tear jerker. Have a box of keenix near by.

It gave me strong Unsettling Feelings like the movie Last Shift 2014 did in the beginning of this story. As it moves deeper into the story, a feeling of claustrophobia starts to creep up starting from your toes like in the movie Pontypool 2008. There are Red Herrings if you pay really close attention to the Brilliantly written Twist. I highly recommend this for everyone that enjoys a good scare.

Paranormal
Horror
Graphic Language
Suspense

Creepy and tense from start to finish …

This novella was creepy and tense from start to finish. It really keeps you on edge and at times disoriented. For a novella length story the characters were well developed. Engaging, unpredictable and hard to put down. I would strongly recommend this book to fans of thrillers and horror. I did an immersion read with both the kindle and audiobook but if you are going to choose one I would recommend the audiobook. Solid performance.

Truly creepy!

What a totally creepy cover to look at while listening to the audiobook! And, the story itself is weirdly horrific, too!

Ellen works in a mortuary at night (not creepy at all, right?). Her husband wants a divorce and her son hates her. Things start to get very weird when cadavers start showing up in a disturbing state after being delivered by two strange attendants.

Meanwhile, darkness is closing in around the town, the phones don't work, and Ellen decides that she has to find her son, Ted. But, when she ventures out into the darkness, her whole world is turned upside down.

The author has created a great horror story with wonderful character development in just a few pages. The narrator does a great job and added a lot to the feel of the story. I will definitely be reading more by this author!

A dark and twisted read

Matt you had me from the beginning what a creepy read and the narrator did a fantastic job bringing this book to life. I read it on Kindle and now audiobook. Absolutely fantastic

Short and bittersweet

Oh boy, where do I start with this one? As usual, Duchossoy presents a story with a synopsis that seems pretty straightforward but most definitely is not. What begins as a weird day at work ends up being something much bigger.

Ellen works the night shift at a morgue. As you can imagine, that can get pretty creepy. You spend your nights hanging out with corpses. You hear weird noises. Sometimes those noises come from gases escaping the corpses, and when you’re sleep deprived and stressed, things that normally don’t phase you are suddenly startling. While she does her work, we get a little bit of her back story. She is going through a divorce and probably won’t get custody of her son. Her son hates her for reasons we learn later in the story.

While she’s prepping one body for the freezers, another is delivered. There’s something strange about this delivery though. She does not recognize the men who are doing the drop off and they refuse to stop to do paperwork. She is frustrated with this change in routine but there isn’t anything she can do about it. She processes this new body, noting the strange appearance of its face and equally strange texture of its skin. Before she knows it, the van is back with another body. They come and go throughout the night and Ellen is understandably disturbed by the amount of bodies coming in one night. Meanwhile, she and the security guard take a look outside and are confronted by what looks like a dark barrier between the morgue and the rest of the town that is closing in on them. Naturally this frightens Ellen and she decides it’s time to leave work and go home to her son. Getting past the barrier proves to be a challenge, and then what she sees on the other side feels like a fever dream.

I want to take a moment to address the audiobook narration. Louise Cooksey is a new voice to me, but a glance at her collected works on Audible shows that she is no novice. I felt like she did a nice job of portraying Ellen’s emotions throughout. Didn’t love her “man voice”, but it was an otherwise good performance.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me. There were some parts of Ellen’s story that really resonated with me. Fortunately I don’t think my town will turn into meat anytime soon. In true Duchossoy fashion, this one had me feeling things. It is short and bittersweet. The ending will break your heart.

Great

This was a great audiobook. The story really went places I wasn’t expecting. The narrator, Louise was great. It was short and intense, and captivating. I highly recommend.

I now know what it feels like to trip acid.

Wow, this was a wild ride! I worked in a morgue so it was fun to hear these events taking place while envisioning it at my old place of employment. Definitely one of a kind!