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A Voice in the Dark
I was well into spending my Friday night as I typically would - staying up most of the night, playing games and looking at stupid meme sites - when the…
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The Growing Settlements
Hello there! Look what the cat dragged… oh my! Are you alright?! Hurry, get inside! … You need to get here earlier if you’re gonna pay regular visits! Just because…
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Dead Man’s Bluff
Jacob stumbled through the double-doors of the Atlantis Casino and into the crisp, night air; lurching to the closest decorative shrubbery where he proceeded to unload the meager contents of…
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Lost in the Woods
"Lost in the woods," was a phrase my father used a lot. When I was young; should we be out in the world and witness someone acting out in any…
Read NowI Didn’t Have a Voice Until You Read This
I didn't have a voice until you read this. Let me explain — I was voiceless but I still existed. We all did. We have been here ever since the…
Read NowThe Window
I was in my bedroom, doing the typical at-home teenager thing: staying up late, digging around the depths of the internet, and generally not paying attention to anything other than…
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Halloween: When the Masks Come Off
It has been a long time since I reveled in the fears of those I used to prey on. It could be said that I reformed from my old ways.…
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The Story of Her Holding an Orange: Part Four
If you haven't read my previous posts, please read stories one, two and three. Hey guys, after many PMs asking for an update, I decided to bring you up to speed on whats going…
Read NowThe Periphery People
“Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there,” the man at the bar said to me, nursing a fresh two-fingers’ worth of Ketel vodka in a tumbler…
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Black Christmas
It was cold and dark that one wretched morning in the city of dead dreams. Dilapidated buildings, decadent sentries of another time, towered on either side of me as I…
Read NowIn the Bayou
If you want to understand why I left the place I was at, you're really just going to have to hear the entire story. You won't believe it, of course.…
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The Creek of A Thousand Corpses
It was one of those stormy nights during my summer trip in the tropics when I stumbled upon that old tunnel. It was the longest and scariest night of my…
Read NowInspiration
You know those long, involved ritual creepypastas, the ones that involve a million different steps, the ones where if you breathe at the wrong second you die? Ever wonder who…
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There’s Something Seriously Messed Up With My New TV
There’s no interesting backstory here; I didn’t buy this thing from some, like, creepy garage sale. I didn’t get it as a gift from some estranged relative that doubled as…
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The Chimney Man
My dad built his dream cabin in the southern Ozarks back in 1991, a reward to himself for achieving early retirement. The damn thing took nearly a year to build,…
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Stay Away From the Angels
I was a bloody mess. After the twelve car pile-up on the freeway, it was a miracle I was even conscious, albeit just barely. There was only one hospital within…
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