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The Crooked Room
Call me Bramwell Alden. I can't give you my real name because my prick of a family is too well known. My ancestor William Alden came over on the Mayflower,…
Read NowThe Troubles of Hollow Pines
I am the former police chief of a small town in North Carolina. A town where not much goes on, the department's district is about 3 square miles and I never had…
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Tag… You’re It!!
Ten people. Ten people in ten different places doing ten different things, but all sharing one single thought... "What if it really works?" You see, in our little town of…
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Smuggler’s Creek
Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 The dynamic of memory has confounded me for my entire life. Memory is itself a living being, eternally aging until it decays and fades away. Each…
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Nina the Killer
I heard recently that there is a new killer. I was surprised when I heard it for the first time. I first thought that it was just a crazy fan…
Read NowHenrietta: A Whirlwind of Imagination
The house on 4th Street didn’t break all at once. It fractured slowly, in the quiet spaces between arguments, until the tension became a living, breathing thing that crowded seven-year-old…
Read NowForest of Suicides
His room was quaint, containing quarters to sleep, a kitchenette and facilities. Simple, yet exceedingly modern, his room mirrored his personality near-perfectly; simple, open and inviting. It was the home…
Read NowDance, Dance
There was a girl who had an illness and was bed-ridden for the majority of her life. She was recently diagnosed to die within the next couple of months so…
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The King’s Marionette
The rats scurried and clawed inside the walls. It was one of the few things that frustrated Elizabeth about working nightshift. During the day the rats were smart enough to…
Read NowTorture.avi
I'm bawling my eyes out as I type this, locked in my closet. For those of you who think this is one of those internet ghost stories, then I envy…
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The man in the window
“I want you to know I'm not crazy. What I tell you in this office today is just to clear my head so I can get past all the damn…
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There’s a Dead Girl in My Mirror
Saturday This sounds absolutely idiotic. I know you’ve all heard this kind of thing before – someone thinks her house is haunted, everyone else assures her that she’s just paranoid,…
Read NowAdelaida and Kruv
The realm was beauteous and plentiful, its people more so. No plague touched its borders, no famine its lands. War was seldom seen in this kingdom, whose peaceful lords ran…
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What Doesn’t Kill You Will Come Back For You Later
[static sounds, with a click of a button. As the cassette rolls, a woman begins to speak] There once was a girl who could sleep peacefully at night. She would…
Read NowThe Hitchhikers
There are stories about a certain kind of hitchhiker - they only ever appear at night on quiet roads, seeming to flicker into existence in the very edge of headlights,…
Read NowThe Grounds Keeper’s Shed
Everyone knows me, No one knows my name, I am well liked, but not close to fame, My heart was broken, and I died in the rain, I became a…
Read NowLavender Town Syndrome
Lavender Town as seen in Red and Green The Lavender Town Syndrome (also known as "Lavender Town Tone" or "Lavender Town Suicides") was a peak in suicides and illness of children…
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Reflection of The Senses
It didn’t look fun. It looked like quite the opposite. Standing in front of me was a large funhouse. Chipped and faded paint coloured it’s exterior. I had lost my…
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My Wife and I Die Daily
I'm lying in bed next to someone who I'll call my wife, but tomorrow, I know there will be someone different waking up next to me. My current wife will…
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Elagabalus
Chapter VI I had managed to find the dark place described in the journals. It was apparent that I was not looking hard enough during my first few perusals of…
Read NowAt the roots of the roses
When I was young, I was told my mother committed suicide by jumping from a bridge. Her body wasn’t found, as the river she landed in led to the sea…
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The Shadow in the Lake
It was nothing new. Just a normal trip to the lake. My friends and I had gone to lake Thunderbird many times on weekends, it was our favorite retreat from…
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