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Night Hike
When I was in the 6th Grade, I went on a school sponsored camping trip with my class mates. It was kind of like an immersive science lesson. The trip…
Read NowJust a Joke
They laughed. The group has just arrived at their dorm from another night of ghost stories. They weren't afraid. At least, they wouldn't show it. They were, after all, men.…
Read NowHe Who Should Really Not Be Named (Candlejack)
In this world, there exists a spirit neither male nor female. This spirit is covered with a dark cloth, with a separate white cloth to cover its head. It is…
Read NowAqua Vitae
Traveling on into that sunless region known as the Land of the Blest, the good Knight Alexander of Macedon, accompanied by 40 friends, 100 slaves, and 1,200 reliable soldiers, found…
Read NowShrine of Dagon
As I myself am writing this message under unappreciable mental strain, by tomorrow I shall be no more. My food supply as well as medicine and water had been running…
Read Now5 Creepy Things from the World of Warcraft
Anyone who has played World of Warcraft even once is probably aware that it’s not just another game. Its impact on our minds is real and it has been inspiring…
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Santa’s Other Workshop
Perpetual darkness lingered at the top of the world. Thick ice, frigid air, and snow covered the lifeless mountainscape. However, the endless night did not go unchallenged. A single source…
Read NowPlease Come
A 15-year old boy in a small town in Maryland sat down at his computer after getting home from school one day. He turned it on and logged into an…
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Blue Nightmare
Police and ambulances surrounded a house where a family of five had been murdered last night. This wasn't the first murder that has happened in the area. In fact it…
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Sprawl & its Discontents
Alice is telling the guys she doesn't know that she wants to see the end of the world. They aren't talking to her. No one is talking to her. The…
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Inspiration
It’s a writer's worst nightmare. The moment when you just couldn’t come up with anything, absolutely nothing, when the well of creativity dries up. It’s frustrating. Us writers call this…
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Lost and Alone
Lightning flashed overhead as I picked myself up off the ground. Wondering where I was and how I ended up there, I examined the shapes and shadows that littered my…
Read NowLeon Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was electrocuted for his crime on October 29, 1901, at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York.…
Read NowOnce You Know…
I recommend that you stop reading this now. Don't say you weren't warned. When I was younger, I would always get scared watching horror films and reading horror stories, just…
Read NowI Drove Out to the Desert
I was driving out to the desert. The panorama of distant rock, endless sand, and occasional cactus slowly blurring in my peripheral vision. Sparse cloud cover traversed the sky overhead,…
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We Few Are Many
Just the concept alone was enough to draw me in. “An internet underneath the internet. The dark web,” is how my old friend Kyle described it to me. It wouldn’t…
Read NowThe Legend of Icthos Thanos
Camp Royaneh, the Boy Scout camp where I work has been around for many years. 86 years to be precise. However, what people often forget is, prior to becoming a…
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Maximilian Schäfer
The image above is a sketch by Maximilian Schäfer, a criminally insane arsonist formerly committed to the now-defunct Gelassenheit Asylum outside the city of Linz, Austria. Weeks previous to his…
Read NowThe Piano’s Song
She sits upright before us, like a tree trunk still and dynamic, and her frail fingers are placed alert on the ivory. Her old lungs fill and release once as…
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