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16 Choices
Every individual will make 16 choices in their lifetime that will forever alter the course of humanity. No more than 16, no less than 16. These choices will be small,…
Read NowAny Final Thoughts
The overwhelming majority of your actions in life will have no effect on your eternal condition. After all, does a grain of sand have any effect on a prodigious star?…
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It Comes From the Dark
I’ve always had a fear of the dark, but until I was fourteen or fifteen it was a childish fear. I had just became old enough to work and my…
Read NowMemory Lane
There was a bright pink tint to the sky and it brought a smile to Jared's face. The light afternoon breeze shook up his dark brown hair, flipping it in…
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Do I Have Something For You?
What are you doing right now? Not five minutes ago. Not five seconds ago, right now. What are you doing, right now? Let me take a shot in the dark…
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The Lantern
1 The House It sank deep into his mind that he was being watched in the cold neighborhood. The light green shade of fog rolled through the houses. It covered…
Read NowThe Ever-Burning Light Bulb
In a fire station in California, there is a light bulb that is always on and has never, ever burned out. If you read Numbers 16:41-45 from a King James…
Read NowKnock Knock
I bolted upright in the bed not sure what I expected to see, but knowing that something had startled me awake. Moonlight filtered in through the window and I shivered…
Read NowA Walk in the Dark
Anna Hamilton didn't see herself as a suspicious person but when someone's been following her for quite awhile she gets a queasy feeling in her stomach. Guaranteed she was out…
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The 50’s Restaurant
In the most deserted part of Wyoming there is a restaurant. There are no roads leading to it, no signs advertising it. It's just there, in the open. Walk inside…
Read NowDon’t Be Afraid
I was thrown into an inescapable void, and the depths of my soft blankets were the only protection I had from the shadows that seeped from the corners of my…
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Pretty Lies
Getting ourselves grown up into sophisticated individuals, we’ve forgotten what glorious mess we were back in the old days, when the world seemed so tall from our heads, when teasing…
Read NowThe Scarlett Envelope
George never got sick, well, almost never. He was well into his thirties and had been working an office job for almost seven years now. It was a standard 8-5…
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Mr. Strangeteeth
Apparently everyone is in on the joke or I’ve been living under a rock so I'm sorry if any of this is redundant but I have to reach out because…
Read NowThe Dark Grove
There exists a small circle of trees somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, completely unremarkable from the outside, but just inside no sun or star ever shines. Rumor has it that…
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Apartment 701
Deep within the covers of her bed, Lucy snuggled into the warmth that she had built up within her cocoon of quilts, smiling to herself sleepily as she began slowly…
Read NowThe Tracing
Next time when you're lying in bed and the moon is new, when you're at the moment where you're almost asleep and your eyes are closed...try listening for the sounds.…
Read NowEchiridion Aetheri
This may seem a little strange for a story, however I assure you what I am about to describe to you happened to us. There were five people present when…
Read NowThe Horror Section
I think it was my somewhat strict upbringing that fostered my intrigue for horror. Following the path of god and basking in the sun's rays is all well and good...…
Read NowThe Pregnancy
Since before I could remember, I've wanted to be a mother. It seemed my whole childhood and teenager years were spent yearning for a child of my own. By the…
Read NowThe Screaming Woman
I noticed her walking home from school one day. Her long hair was as dark as a raven's feathers, and flowed out behind her as she walked. She was about…
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