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Written in the Stars
"Cheryl! That's great news. I didn't even know you were psychic!" exclaimed Marian, her face alight with excitement. "I'm not psychic, Marian." “Oh, of course not. That was silly of…
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The Reason You Fear Darkness
“The fear of darkness is something that lies behind the drape of black covering it up, not the drape itself. It’s not the darkness we fear—it’s the fear of what…
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The Parker Express
Part 1 This is your captain speaking. I've just turned on the seat belt sign. We're expecting a fair amount of turbulence coming up, so we ask that you please…
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Encountered
It was cold the night it happened. The air was heavy with a thick fog, the likes of what I’ve never seen before. It felt unfamiliar and foreign and it…
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The Light Hungers
It has been the way of things since the dawn of time. Evil has always been birthed by darkness. The strong feed on the weak and the lesser. Not always…
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Bread and Circuses
WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME, everything changed. Small towns rebuilt themselves into boisterous cities overnight. Weary farmers and their wives glowed with renewed vigor. Life was transformed from a series of…
Read NowThe Road to Happiness
She had traveled down this road more times than she was willing to count. Surrounded by forest and wild life, the long, narrow, dusty road offered a safe route from…
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The Black Sarcophagus
The following are a collection of journals and reports pertaining to a series of strange and tragic occurrences befalling the Carter Archaeology Institute. Journal of Arnold Higgins, Archaeologist: July 7th,…
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All’s Fair in Love and War: A Valentine’s Nightmare
I think just about everyone active in the dating community has had the occasional experience with 'crazy eyes'. No, this isn't some cryptid who preys on the innocent single, looking…
Read NowThe Void and the Rift
“It was not a physical fear, and it had not teeth or jaws or eyes burning with any common malice. It was perhaps not even an entity, but a raging…
Read NowThe Lurker
These posts were taken directly from a blog that got removed shortly after the last upload. Archived text below. HeyWarren - Posted 2/27/19 9:23pmMy Roommate Is Missing - Entry #1…
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The Rose and the Open Window
Phil had excellent hearing. He could, for example, hear Mrs. Polsgrove’s cat clawing at discarded tuna cans in her recycling bin two streets away. He heard Lisa’s feet tromping off…
Read NowPlant The Seed
The sky over the golden kingdom had turned the color of an open wound. Lseynda pressed her back against the shattered remains of a marble colonnade and tried to breathe…
Read NowThe System
I woke up to the all-too familiar beeping of my alarm clock on my night table. I made the mistake of staying up till 4:00am the night before, so the…
Read NowEmotional Support Canadians Are NOT What You Think
I’m sure everybody knows this, but 2020 has been a rough year across the globe. I’m not trying to insinuate that Americans have it worse than other first world countries,…
Read NowThis Is an Apology
The following manuscript, along with two video tapes of security camera footage, was found in the fourth floor of an empty office building next to what remains of a mangled,…
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Living in a Haunted Sorority
I never understood why ghosts are always depicted as creepy little girls in Victorian dresses. Real ghosts are never like that.... Or at least, my ghost isn't. My ghost killed…
Read NowSuccession Of Nightmares
Nightmares. We all have them, one time or another. Everything has a dark side, our dreams were meant to be a place of jubilation, and contain our most wonderful fantasies.…
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From the Deep
The knocking sound had been coming and going in my engine, and I had a feeling that my Nissan Stanza was about to die. In the back of my mind…
Read NowHe Who Eats
It was late September when I traveled north to the Great Lakes. It was one of the last stops for the last chapter of my book, starting with the eastern…
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