Hushed Tones
A Deadly Silence Short Story
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.99/mo for 3 months + $20 Audible bonus voucher
Hushed Tones
Buy Now for $8.29
-
Narrated by:
-
Sally Swift
-
By:
-
Danielle Fear
Welcome to Deadly Silence, a multi-author collection of chilling short stories where every pause hides a threat. Crafted to make your pulse quicken and your nerves tighten, these thrillers and light horror tales uncover the terror that lurks in the quiet, waiting to be noticed—or ignored
Kirsty has spent her life learning how to speak again.
In her mid-thirties, she works quietly at a remote vineyard, tending vines that ask nothing of her past. When a private wine tasting is booked under the name of her childhood bully, the life she rebuilt begins to fracture. Old silences stir and old choices return.
What begins as coincidence becomes confrontation. And what follows is a reckoning steeped in ritual, restraint, and consequence.
As wine is poured and power shifts, Kirsty must decide whether justice sounds like forgiveness, or something far more permanent. But when the vineyard's owner returns, grieving and watchful, she discovers that survival may depend not on what she did… but on whether her silence is a weapon or a weakness.
A psychological thriller short story about voice, control, and conditional love.
Don't forget to come back to check out all the other Deadly Silence stories in the collection!
©2026 Danielle Fear (P)2026 Danielle Fear