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The Mariner
September 17, 20-- To whoever is reading: Please pardon my recollections and remembrances, as the events that have occurred in the past 24 hours have been the oddest, most appalling,…
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The Wrapper
The point of me writing all this is because I don't want any of my story to go without hearing, or any of my actions to go without seeing. I…
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The Shadow
Hi there, I’m going to be writing this down as a...“therapeutic exercise”. Ugh, I hate these therapists, thinking they can help. Trust me that, after the events I’ll soon be…
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The John Doe Tapes
May 9th. Another murder. The newspaper says it all. The headlines read: "Third Tape Given to Police". The page says the following:"Yesterday afternoon, police received a third tape. As per…
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The Basement
Here is the journal I kept during my time at The Ash House. At times I was unable to write, so some entries are recorded by memory. At the time…
Read NowThe Well in the Forest
We first set foot into this forest yesterday evening after spending just over an hour and a half making our journey. It was one of those evenings where the many…
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The Awoken Dead
The following are pages taken from the journal of Andrei Bucur found buried under the church of a lost village in Romania. April 17, 1479 It has been a long…
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My friend’s diary ends differently than I remembered
When I was young, me and my childhood-best friend were writing diaries. “Childish” you’d say? Maybe. To be fair, we were children back then. We used to go to the…
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The Candle Caravan
My girlfriend and I had been going through a rough patch for a few weeks, arguing continuously, having screaming matches with one another, or not speaking at all. It all…
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At the Salmon Cowboy: A Found Letter
I fear that by the time you read this . . . it will be too late. Forgive me, Vanessa. I am so sorry. As you are reading this, your…
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The Ceremony
When you are met with the sort of anxiety which, ultimately, is there to make you consider the possibility that your own memory is a lie, it is only natural…
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Within the sands of time
Sand covers many small now roofless buildings of unknown purposes. Time and weather had been withering away at this place for thousands of years, and it would continue to do…
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The Mind Traveler’s Manifesto
Attention Attention, whomever should find this book, please know that I am no longer among the humans on Earth. I have transcended the corporeal plane and am now my own…
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