Shock Suspenstories #4

In "Split Second!", a young lumberjack, recently blinded in a brutal act of workplace violence, is forced to endure a terrifying ordeal when his coworkers trap him inside a hollow log—chopping through it as a twisted test of survival. With his wife Liz now in grave danger, the line between punishment and prophecy blurs in this chilling tale of fear, fate, and the split-second choices that can define a life.

In the 21st century, a man pays a woman thirty thousand dollars to be his wife for three years—no sex, just appearances. As their time together unfolds, she begins to fall for him, unaware of his true nature. When she reveals her plan to renew their marriage by claiming she’s expecting a child, he delivers a startling truth that upends everything.

In "Uppercut!", a desperate fight promoter pushes his last-ditch boxer to the limit, demanding nothing less than guts. When the boy steals a drug meant to simulate death—just long enough to fool a burial—the plan unravels in a chilling twist: the promoter wakes not in a grave, but in a police morgue, where a cold, clinical stillness settles over him as he realizes too late what’s been done to his body.