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The Boy with the Burned Fingers
It is a strange thing, what fear and ignorance does to the haughty human race. In our own twisted creativity, we desensitize ourselves to our own undoing. And in the…
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A Man Appeared in My Room to Answer My Prayers
The large man stood in the corner of my dark room, peering at me through puffy slits surrounded by a century's worth of deep eyebags and crust. Every breath his…
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I was exhausted. I had just gotten home from another day of forced monotony that we call a job. I wanted nothing more than to kick back with a cold…
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The Blue Man
If you see the Blue Man walk, Mind to him you do not talk. For if you see the Blue Man smile, Your sweet soul he will defile. - From…
Read NowA Ritual In The Forest
Henry Callum had made this drive so many times he could have done it half asleep, and on some of the earlier mornings, he nearly had. Forty miles out of…
Read NowNo Death Day
When I was 16 I murdered my best friend, and two minutes later he returned the favour. I remember that fateful night as if it were yesterday, and unfortunately those…
Read NowThe Villages At Parkside
Even though there’s been no need to fear it for years, kids in The Villages at Parkside still move pretty quickly past 2227 Indiana Avenue,. Mrs. Yearts still lives there,…
Read NowI Drive a Taxi Between the Realms: Entry One: Dering Wood
‘I need a cab, at Lexington square, Richmond, Virginia,’ the text reads. "Where are you headed?" The reply doesn't come right away. This is nothing new–not in my job. Sometimes,…
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Why I’ll Never Try Virtual Reality Again
I’m going to tell you a secret that I don’t tell anyone. I’m a US veteran of the war in Afghanistan. I was stationed in the Uruzgan province when Taliban…
Read NowThe Divide
“Therefore the force, secrecy and power, in what manner the sacred names of spirits are truly and rightly found out, consisteth in the disposing of the vowels, which do make…
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Black Ibis
I have been a hunter since a very young age. A wanderer of the silent woods, a stalker of the croaking marshes, a drifter of the sighing deserts. My father…
Read NowInvoking Aziuth
I lifted my eyes for only a moment. His form was unspeakable. An insidious darkness, a void opened to reality. My body lost all its strength, I fell to the…
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I dove to depths uncharted. The ocean isn’t safe anymore
The first thing I felt when I hit the water, was fear. It had been months since I’d last dived, hell, I even got nervous when I took showers. But…
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The Nocturnals Arrive This Christmas
Site 12, December 23rd, 2021 I walked through the Site Twelve Facility, which had been sparsely decorated with a bunch of Christmas-themed trinkets. It wasn’t much, a fake tree here…
Read NowWhy He Weeps
I’d heard stories of it. Retreat Road down in Cochrane, Alberta. They have a monastery there. Robes and everything. But their real claim to fame is the massive statue of…
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Tales of the City, Part One: Neighborhood Watch
“It's a simple question: Do you believe in ghost?" "I—" “Hold on; I’m not in the mood for ghost stories tonight." "Me neither." "I didn't ask for stories, I just…
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Tales From Lake Bottomless: The Infection
Part 1: Tales From Lake Bottomless: Levi The Leviathan Part 2: Tales From Lake Bottomless: The West Side Hey everyone, Howard Greene back again. Things have gotten quite strange since…
Read NowThe Displaced Man
The cracked, grey structure stood like a monument before them, separated from the offroad only by a chainlink fence, scattering pockets of moonlight over the foursome. Swaying against each other…
Read NowBlood Moon: Law of the Fish
Read Part One here (Author’s Note: These stories are meant to be read in reverse order of the zodiac, so this chapter comes first, though it deals with Scepi, the…
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