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The Saturn Source Code
It was a pretty simple program.A collaborative effort between me and another user on a forum I like to frequent. We like to help one another with all sorts of…
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The Cookie Monster at Night
I scare pretty easily. It’s not quite pathetic, but my husband is always laughing at me for it. Such as whenever the music in some scary movie crescendos, and there…
Read NowThe Secret of the Wanderer
Deep in the forest a cloaked figure glided past the ancient oak. It traveled silently through the forest searching for something. The setting sun cast long shadows over the trees,…
Read NowBunker in the Woods
My friends and I used to wander into the dark woods at night, wielding little more than our flashlights and overactive imaginations. It was the surge of adrenaline we needed,…
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They Only Take One
Take in that fresh air girl! Damn it feels great to be back. Everything looks smaller though. “Yeah, because you were like three feet tall last time you were here,…
Read NowHidden People
It had to be close to 12 now. The silver gleam of the full moon was spilling through the woodland trees, illuminating all it touched. Evan looked at his watch.…
Read NowThe Woman From the Beach
I still remember a nightmare I had when I was about five years old. I was near the ocean that I loved so much, with just my Dad and I…
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Homecoming
The night that Oskar Strid returned home, after having been missing for almost a decade, was not a celebratory one. His father had answered the door when Oskar knocked, then…
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Old Boo Diddley
It was the year 2000. I was 17 years old, a junior in high school, and I had a shitty, low paying job at a rinky dink discount store that,…
Read NowSkyrim’s Secret 2
This is a sequel to Skyrim's Secret. Sometimes in life, you have certain experiences that completely twist your perspective of reality. Things that you think could only happen in pure…
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The Walker Of London
June 27, 1932 Up in a castle of mystery, darkness, and dreariness, there lies a man, a man of darkness. A hooded figure with a long black cape. As dark…
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Graybark Drive
It all began the night the man in the black coat came to Graybark Drive. Looking back, Harrison Naylor might have found that odd, because it was also the night…
Read NowThe River Trail
During the summer of 2014, when I had just turned 17, I left my home in a Northern European country to live with a host family and study at a…
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The Devil’s Road
“That was It’s All Over Now by Molly Hatchet. Y’all, I reckon there’s nothing better than good old Southern Rock to soothe the soul on a stormy Sunday night. This…
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The Stars of Bigface Marsh
It was cold. Cold and dark. That’s all I could feel when I stared into the black abyss, that made up its eyes. There was a tingling sensation in my…
Read NowI Took A Job in Northwest Vermont: Entry One: The Witch’s Children
I took a digital archiving job with the van der Voort Estate Historical Society. It’s an old manor home dating back to the 1800s on a soft cliff overlooking Precipice…
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The Nothing Room
“Your job…your sole life responsibility for the rest of your natural life is to keep that door shut….always! The house is yours…you can do what you want with it regarding…
Read NowThe Fishing Trip
“Hold the head steady, Mr. Walker, I don't want to cock this up.” Swelling waves cause the ship to roll beneath my feet as I do my best to follow…
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