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A Quiet Friday Evening
It was around half past twelve at night when I stumbled home. I hadn’t really drunk, although most people of my age would have. My friends and I aren’t really…
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I Hope I Never Dream Again
Dreams are supposed to be a magical place, a place where we can escape from our everyday lives, where our imagination can run free. I have often heard my friends…
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The Escape of Amanda Waylan
Amanda awoke with a painful feeling of dread deep within her gut. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, her fear was justified. Nothing has changed. Her coffee table was…
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The Tree From Which Dead Things Grow
I had nightmares about the place for weeks. Every time, it was exactly the same. I stood before a large oak tree, alone, in a vast field of dead grass.…
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The Candle Man
Over the hill and through the moor, the candle man comes walking, up to your door. He lights up a candle and walks to your bed, leaves the candle in…
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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…
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Night World
It’s my oldest memory. I’m standing in dad’s office, books are raining from the shelves as the ground shakes under my feet. It’s an earthquake, my first one so to…
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Night Terrors
“I saw him again last night.” “Who?” “The Man”. “Oh yeah,” James chuckled. “Same.” “Oh really?” I nervously giggled in response. “What did you see?” “Just the usual, he was…
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Island in the Sun
May 10thIt's an island. That's it! An island. Let's make something known from the get-go, I'm not here because I want to be, I'm here because I'm fucked. Yup, fucked.…
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I found a book that does not exist
I found a book that does not exist. It cannot exist because if it does, it means I’ve gone mad. I love books, I always have since I could learn…
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The Marytown Bazaar
My name is Elijah Jove and this was my life. I grew up in a small house in a town called Yukon, WV. It had three rooms; one bedroom for…
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My Boyfriend’s Dreams Are Starting to Scare Me
My name is Harley, and I've been with my boyfriend Dan for five years, lived with him for three. I love Dan more than anything in this world. He's my…
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Only a Dream
I think that I was so scared and intimidated by my dreams for so long that I kept them to myself. I was scared what people would think of these…
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Red-Eye Flight
LiVE THE DREAM These words flashed before Caitlin Neil’s closed eyes on her red-eye flight back to Los Angeles. It wasn’t home, but her so-called base. Her name wasn’t even…
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For Old Times Sake
“’sup?” They looked at each other, neither really sure what to say or how to say it. It had been a long time. The whole house felt strange, certainly stranger…
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The Sewer Under The Lighthouse
You were always against moving away from your family and friends. You didn’t want to leave the city, the coast never appealed to you anyway. You didn’t want to move…
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My lucid dreams have become lucid nightmares against my will. I don’t know where else to write about it other than my dream journal, so in my journal it’ll go.…
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The Ghost of Levi Johnson
It was a stormy night on Welkes Street. The street sign creaked back and forth as the wind blew past it. Heavy rain water flowed into drains on every corner…
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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…
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An Open Letter to Those Deprived of Sleep
I can’t fall asleep. Not for the reason you may think. This isn’t “I ate too much before bed, and now I can’t stop trying to try to fall asleep”-…
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Old Hag Madness
When the leaves began to fall that first week in October so many years ago, I could not have been less prepared for what would ultimately alter the course of…
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I Almost Died on My First Day Back to School
It was the first day back to school and I was absolutely tense about it. Wracked with anxiety, and plagued by nightmares, I’d barely gotten any sleep for the past…
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