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I Remember Alice
Average Rating:
10

I Remember Alice

I remember Alice. It was the summer of 2004 when the two of us first met. I’d just started at university. I was a dorky, somewhat awkward-looking girl, too skinny, too flat-chested and with hair that ...
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The Two-Headed Boy
Average Rating:
6.96

The Two-Headed Boy

Watching TV has always been one of our favorite things to do. In the early years, this proved difficult. Remus, being the stronger of our halves, would pull me until the remote was always within reach ...
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The Dark Man
Average Rating:
7.74

The Dark Man

My grandfather on my dad’s side passed away from cancer back in 2018 at the age of 75. Unlike my mom’s parents and my dad’s mom, my two brothers, my sister and I knew very little ...
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Rule 34
Average Rating:
7.47

Rule 34

NSFW / Trigger Warnings: The following story contains adult content not suitable for children, including material of a sexual nature. If you are under the age of 18, or do not wish to be exposed to ...
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Picture Perfect
Average Rating:
8.37

Picture Perfect

The world can be a cruel place.  I had always been optimistic about life and the promises it held, and that even with life’s ups and downs, working hard and striving for the best one could ...
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Dead and Gone
Average Rating:
6.58

Dead and Gone

It had been six months since the accident. I remember because Elizabeth was helping me sign my name in our daughter Jenny’s birthday card. Slowly she guided by hand, helping me create some legible signature rather ...
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Black Sap
Average Rating:
8.46

Black Sap

We were having another lockdown drill when I found out about Holly Reyes. I was in Social Studies, third period, when Principal Weston’s muffled voice spat at us from the ceiling. We all sighed and ducked ...
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If You Can’t See It
Average Rating:
8.21

If You Can’t See It

Every summer for a week, my grandparents would visit my family in New Orleans from Haiti. Making the nine-hour flight and thirty-minute drive from the airport to Norco. I loved seeing my grandfather. He told the ...
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Letters to Sam
Average Rating:
7.43

Letters to Sam

Dear Sam, How are you doing? It’s been a while. I hope these winter days are treating you well, they don’t agree with me so much. You remember how blue I used to get? Seasonal Affective ...
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Why I Don't Go Trick-or-Treating Anymore
Average Rating:
7.98

Why I Don’t Go Trick-or-Treating Anymore

My name isn’t really important, but for now, I’ll go by Monty. A little backstory, I grew up in a small town just outside of Hartford, Connecticut. Real nice place where everyone knew everyone, you never ...
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Spiderland
Average Rating:
6.31

Spiderland

“Can we go on the roller coaster?” “Sure we can,” Kent assured his son, whose eyes brimmed with hope and enthusiasm. Little Brian ran ahead towards the ride as his father walked quickly behind. It was ...
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I Found a Disturbing Photo in My Family Photo Album
Average Rating:
7.53

I Found a Disturbing Photo in My Family Photo Album

My mother never let me look at the family photo albums. I never knew why. Whenever I asked, she would tell me that they were old and fragile, and would break if we got them down ...
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Tribunal
Average Rating:
5.38

Tribunal

Part One  The plodding stench of dilapidated wood and animal urine brings the young Taylor Jenkins to consciousness. His eyes open and adjust to a dark interior, the sparse chandelier sparkling precariously above his head. The ...
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Ghastly Warnings
Average Rating:
6.38

Ghastly Warnings

December 23, 1975 Brookfield, Montana 1 AM To John, it didn’t seem as if it was going to get colder. But to his dismay, it did. The temperature on the train he rode on stated it ...
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There's a Dead Girl in My Mirror
Average Rating:
7.29

There’s a Dead Girl in My Mirror

Saturday This sounds absolutely idiotic. I know you’ve all heard this kind of thing before – someone thinks her house is haunted, everyone else assures her that she’s just paranoid, and all kinds of terror and ...
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Mr. Smile
Average Rating:
8.22

Mr. Smile

It was in early November of 1997 that a series of very strange sessions led a child psychologist in Maine to contact the authorities. It began when a patient of his began to tell him about ...
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All in the Family
Average Rating:
5.83

All in the Family

NSFW / Trigger Warnings: The following story contains adult content not suitable for children, including extreme violence, death, murder, child abuse, sexual exploitation, rape, incest, and necrophilia. If you are under the age of 18, or ...
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Never Stop At Roadside Memorials
Average Rating:
8.26

Never Stop At Roadside Memorials

You know those people who you tell the time of events to 15 minutes early because you know they would be late? The ones who would be late to their own funerals, as the saying goes? ...
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A Loving Ruination
Average Rating:
5.41

A Loving Ruination

I’m awoken by Rebecca’s sudden lurch upward. The whole bed’s shaking from it. My mind’s jumpstarted awake. Immediately, I’m feeling disorientated. Inactive for many hours, my brain now has to remind me where I am. The ...
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CreepyOasta
Average Rating:
8.29

CreepyOasta

I’m not the most careful typist when it comes to the Internet.  Let’s just say I am grateful for sites that buy multiple misspellings of their website so I don’t go to the wrong place.  I’ve ...
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He’s Killing Up There
Average Rating:
6.86

He’s Killing Up There

Part 1 “So I’m in the cosmetics aisle, right? And I’m standing there reading this bottle of lotion. ‘Not tested on animals,’ it says. And I’m thinking: Really? Like, who the hell is rubbing lotion on ...
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