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There’s Nothing Left
I’ve always been a creature of habit, and few observations ever elude my mind. That’s why I can recall any event down to the smallest insignificant detail, but recently my…
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A Box of Light Among the Stars
It all started when I was a little girl. Christmas Eve, 2004. I was eight years old. "Santa, is that you?" Footfalls on the staircase echoed through the house as…
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Of Beauties and Beasts
Kenneth Mathers loved Beauty. He adored the very aspects that Beauty presented. Beauty was loved by all. Beauty was welcomed in every gathering, celebrated by the people and requested in…
Read NowThe Night’s Hook
The Night's Hook I am writing this to occupy my mind before its sanity disintegrates by thinking about the horrors lurking outside the window behind me. I suppose this will…
Read NowAn Offering to the Basilisk
There's a concept I read about once online, on a forum that discussed Artificial Intelligence. A user known as Roko theorized a possible future where mankind creates an extremely powerful…
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Something Crawling…
Bryan Miller was sitting at home, watching TV alone. He was dressed in his favourite pajamas, and slouched lazily in his armchair. It was a Saturday night, and he wasn’t…
Read NowSaccharine
Ever since she was small, Patty Carson had been fearful of the dark. As was almost every small child, which is to be expected, since children tend to be afraid…
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Warehouse Of Damnation
Running, that is how it started, that is how it ended. The one thing I could always rely on, some call it the coward’s way, I call it surviving. I…
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Between Ice and Stars
The hull of the ship moaned and groaned under the strain of its frozen enclave. HMS Stargazer and its crew had initially set out into the deep unknown to map…
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Desert Bats
As I hurriedly stumbled down from the back of the troop transport, I fell on all fours onto the hard desert ground. The sun had just finished setting in the…
Read NowHangar Man
I'm sure many of you won't believe what I'm about to document, but in all honesty, I don't really care what you think of me or what I am about…
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The Quakes of Mount Olympus
I’ve been deployed on assignment to a new fracking well installation on Mount Olympus, on the Olympic Peninsula, in Washington state, for the last week, of what is expected to…
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Has anyone else had a hair stuck in their throat?
I first noticed it three weeks ago. I’d been playing video games with my friends, and when I went to talk into the mic, it was there. I coughed a…
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Most of us who watch horror movies on a daily basis know that it’s hard to find a movie where all the characters end up happy and satisfied. After all,…
Read NowThe Argument
You're the manager for a small store. You hired one of your friends, and you just found out that he's been stealing from the register, stealing stock, abandoning his post…
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Rise of Vengeance
Authors Note: This story serves as the final chapter of the Northridge saga including: Village in the Shadows, Return to Northridge, The Awoken Dead and Traveler in the Dark. While…
Read NowTurkey Molar
The unknown is terrifying. Sometimes not knowing is better than knowing. I’m telling my story now because I received another email on Monday from Turkey molar. I figured that I…
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‘Slender Man’ Stabbing Verdict: Anissa Weier Found Mentally Ill!
Anissa Weier, the Wisconsin girl who lured a classmate off to the woods to be used as a sacrificial lamb to 'Slender Man' was found to be mentally ill during…
Read NowThey Came from the Sea
Alien invasions. It’s been so overdone it’s turned into a never ending cliché. There are hundreds of films. I’ve watched them all, loved them all. Now, they just make me…
Read NowThe Scarecrow
As Jake trudged through the cornfield, he recalled the argument he'd had that morning with his Pa. "But they've only been up a month-- they don't need changin'!", he had…
Read NowHolder of Nothing
In any city, in any country, go to any mental institution you can get yourself to. When you reach the front desk, ask to visit someone who calls himself "The…
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Eli Foster
Okay. Let's get this straight. I never wanted any of this to happen. I'm not who you all think I am. I promise that all those things he did -…
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