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The Monkey Jones Mystery
There we stood, all five of us, our feet held still to the ground, not too well, because we knew with any given moment our acceleration was a necessity of…
Read NowWho Was Phone?
oK so basicaly its like this. youare at a friends house for like the night or watever and then you guys are making out on the couch (yeah!) and then…
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November 4, 2015 - 3:20 am - Entry 1 Journal of Tyler E. Rivington Today is the day that I venture to the other side of the World. That starting…
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In Darkness She Lives
In Darkness She Lives Marquise Williams BANG!! The dark alley flashed with gunfire. A large, cleft-lipped man wearing a flat cap loomed over Klara, aiming a shaky .357 at her…
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The Mind Traveler’s Manifesto
Attention Attention, whomever should find this book, please know that I am no longer among the humans on Earth. I have transcended the corporeal plane and am now my own…
Read NowAuntie Bernadette
My family visited my grandparents’ farm every summer, where my mother and my aunt Bernadette grew up when they were children. It was roughly a four-hour drive from the city…
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A Boy in a Michael Myers Mask
“Considering how much crap people give this movie, it honestly isn’t that bad,” Mark said while taking another sip of his beer. His wife, Claire, took another fistful of popcorn…
Read NowThe Library
So the other day the library calls to have my department do some computer work for them. Usually they have their own IT staff, but sometimes our department will go…
Read NowSuzie Couldn’t Go To The Party Because…
Suzie had lost her trademark smirk. A frail pink mouth quivered in its place. Her green eyes sparkled in the firelight, the naive naughtiness now absent. She was holding back…
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Patient Files
This week, I was supposed to digitize all of Dr. Marnen's patient files. I was feeling good about my progress when I saw it. A second filing cabinet, hiding behind…
Read NowThe Freak Show
A young man and his new bride were honeymooning in Paris when his wife went into a restroom and didn't return. With time the man began to fear the worst…
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My Mother’s Death Still Haunts Me
August 4th, 1983; my mother is killed in a head-on collision by a drunk driver. The intoxicated individual took a turn onto an off ramp and floored it down the…
Read NowA Question of Faith
You know what would be delightful? To maybe watch television, or just sit around the house, or take a ride in the car without my father bringing up religion. Father…
Read NowThe Power of Belief
Be it new or ancient, religious or sacrilegious, empowering or self-destroying, no idea has true power unless it is given the chance to be voiced, shared, and believed. Of course,…
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My Wife Is Eating Me Alive
It used to be harmless. It really was. When Karen and I first started dating, she would bite my lip, or nibble at my ear, or pretend to be a…
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Withering Heights
Withering Heights (not to be confused with Wuthering Heights, the work of literary genius of the same name, though that is what it is named for) is not an experience…
Read NowColor in Darkness
In the darkness we are strangers to ourselves, gray-skinned, white-eyed and black-haired demons rather than the usual familiar streaks of color that we see in a lighted mirror. Our grayscale…
Read NowThe Crawling Woman
I was a college student from the Midwest. During my senior year, I decided to study abroad in Japan, thinking, why not have a better college experience living somewhere else?…
Read NowThe Handsome Soldier
As a little girl growing up, my parents always tried to protect me by telling me legends and tales. My city is pretty notorious for strange behavior or paranormal happenings…
Read NowThe Meteor
In 1990, a small meteorite was sighted in the night sky by the Hubble telescope. It appeared to be on a collision course with earth, but calculations showed that it…
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