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A serial killer broke into my house…
One night a few years ago I heard the sound of someone breaking into my house. It was around midnight when this happened and up to this point I don’t…
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I Used to Have Two Bodies
Have you ever had a dream where- hold on. Scratch that. That’s not what this is about… dreams. Dreams aren’t real. Memories are real. I used to think that dreams…
Read NowThe Last Laugh
In a nearby town, there lives a clown whose laughter fills the air, and in crowded places, with his painted faces he shocks with skill and flair. Through a comic…
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Missing Time
When I was a boy I used to live in this little town outside Casa Grande, Arizona. Well, when I say small town, what I actually mean is five houses…
Read NowThe Deer Of Possibilities
As I lay in the grass, the warm summer breeze rolling over me, I can’t help but wonder what I did to deserve what had befallen me. I never really…
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The Edwardsville Lottery
Some of you may have read “The Lottery” at one point or another, whether it was of your own pleasure or rather a part of your schools curriculum. We don’t…
Read NowA Parent’s Plea
Throughout my years of reading people's stories of this nature, I have noticed that many of them speak from the perspective of a child. This is entirely apt: we've all…
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I Was Trapped In A Phone Booth
I'm currently attending a night course at a local college. It takes me one hour to walk back to my apartment, but I don't mind walking alone at night. It…
Read NowBennett’s Exorcism
"Our church is no more. Our arrogance and ignorance brought forth our destruction. We are all that's left of the once glorious church. Christianity now relies on us to survive."…
Read NowA Horrid Nightmare
Sam knelt down before her mother’s grave. Tears welled up in her deep brown eyes with remembrance and sorrow. She felt a large sturdy hand on her back; it was…
Read NowThe Watchtower
People always have pondered what another intelligent being would be like. They’ve always theorized that these beings would be light-years away and that us, humans, would be dead a very…
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A Child Like No Other
When I joined the case at 47 County Street, I didn't know what to expect. As a social worker, I see all kinds of screwed up things from child abuse,…
Read NowElegy for Devil’s Lake
Sit tight, my friends, as I weave a tale of magic and night. Let the fire burn low and let the wind howl through the ridges of this lake as…
Read NowThe Tall Man with Yellow Eyes
My life is a rather simple one. I sit in front of my computer (some work, some play) most of the day and usually order in when I am hungry.…
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Hel Ward 54
When James and Linda Scott welcomed the arrival of their first daughter Ella Marie. Nothing seemed to be better. The pregnancy was a text book scenario. Nine months of classes,…
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Subject Eighty-One
Light! Searing, brutal light awakens you, pulling you from the dark oblivion you didn’t even know you were in. Screams echo around you, long and pained, and it’s only after…
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Stay Inside the Car
The sun began to set over the horizon. The sky had been consumed by a bright orange tint with a touch of pink. That was the countryside for you. For…
Read NowBurning Sage
“OK,” the woman screeched, her eyes the size of plates, a grin the size of a banana strained to provoke some kind of reaction from her client. “So, that’s the…
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When I Was Not My Own
Being trapped inside your own body was the kind of horrible thing you'd hear about coma patients and those who suffered from sleep paralysis, but not really as a deliberate…
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The Beast with Five Fingers
When I was a little boy I once went with my father to call on Adrian Borlsover. I played on the floor with a black spaniel while my father appealed…
Read NowDanza de los Muertos
The stiff autumn wind bullied brittle leaves across the sidewalk and into the empty street on Angela’s way home from the daycare center. She wrapped her too-thin cardigan tightly around…
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