
Wait Up For Me, Won’t You?
Suddenly, you hear the front door creak open. Phew - you can finally get some sleep! You call out to your mom, hoping she'd locked the door so you don't have to go downstairs. She doesn't ...

Waking Nightmares
I was having a miserable day. Well…okay, I was allowing myself to have a miserable day. I sat at my desk watching the seconds tick off on the digital atomic wall clock which also told me ...

Waking Nightmares
Focus on your breathing, silence your mind, drink warm milk, stay away from electronics, keep the room dark, take pills. All the ways the internet had told me to fall asleep. All bullshit. For most everyone ...

Walburton Park
Curtis held on to an unfulfilled joy for exploring. The prospect of discovering new places always enthralled him, and often, whether he was just lazing around at home, slacking off during a lecture, or just hanging ...

Walking the Line
I awoke in a standing position, my eyes suddenly shooting open and my legs weakening as I began to stumble. I panicked as I felt myself falling forward, instinctively reaching out to grab the nearest thing ...

Wandering a Lonely Girl on the Dark Web: A Harmless Walk or Wrong Turn
Allison turned on the laptop. It was evening, and everything was shit. A week ago, they planned to have a great night out – Allison and her friends. But somehow most of them caught flu. Is ...

Wanna Play?
Part 1 When I was about ten years old, my family moved. We ventured to a semi-suburban part of Georgia, where my parents opted for one of the older neighborhoods rather than the newer clusters of ...

War of the Dead
The power does it to everyone. It corrupts us all, or at least those of us who embrace it. Although we dive right in to be swept away by the black waters of necromancy, it's not ...

Warehouse Of Damnation
Running, that is how it started, that is how it ended. The one thing I could always rely on, some call it the coward’s way, I call it surviving. I was running that day, as always, ...

Warning Sign
My wife and I were driving down a dark road, on our way to Colorado for our honeymoon. It had to be around midnight and I'd been driving for hours. My wife was fast asleep in ...

Warnock’s Dilemma
I don't know how to start things. Partly, I think, that's because I don't know where this all...started. Began? I'll start with me. I'm 25, working from home for a call center. It's an alright gig ...

Washington’s Inconceivable
Let me begin by stating that I have always had a fascination with nature and its creatures. Even at a young age, I would watch documentaries that explained nature, its inhabitants and humanity's place as the ...

Watch for Deer
The roads are different at night. It's something my mom used to say all the time. She said it when I was a child in the back seat, and she said it when she was teaching ...

Watch Out For The… Wait, What?
Driving home at night, you notice that all the lights in your house/apartment are on. As you park the car, they all turn off at the same time. The house is empty and the doors are ...

Watchmen Woods
My name isn't really important...but for the sake of this story, let's just say I'm Ruby. Yeah, that works. In any case, I'm currently a junior in high school, I've got a lot of friends, and ...

Water Puppet
Some people call me a hero. I can’t disagree with them, because it’s actually kind of true. Believe it or not, I’ve saved a drowning man, pulled a girl from a burning building, and I even ...

We All Die In the End
I watched, unable to muster the courage to jump in after her, as my sister fell down the cliff edge. My voice was hoarse from shouting her name and I saw that her body was submerged ...

We are all one, be one with us
Truth is, most people can't handle the truth and most often prefer to live in the comfort of their own delusions. Very few of us are an exception to this, I thought I was and now ...

We Called Her Stitch-Face
Stitch-face sat three desks in front of me in grade three. We called her that because her upper lip had a hitch on the right side. An animal had bitten her, or that’s the story we ...