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The Living History Project
One of my least favorite parts about being a middle school history teacher is the bullshit “Living History” assignments we give at the end of every school year. Kids are…
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An Old Man’s Last Secret
My grandfather is 95 years old and doesn't have long left in this world. There’s nothing but a mess of tubes and wires to tether him here with us. It’s…
Read NowBlue Light
A bomb went off in the city. It happened on Monday. Today is Thursday. My dad was there. He hasn’t come back yet. I’ve been sitting at the window every…
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Human Nature
Laura pulled her cellphone out of its storage compartment and queued up the first video before wondering if she really should watch it again. They had, technically, only been in…
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Sometimes It’s Better to Leave Survivors Behind
They said it was nothing. A routine rescue op at a facility known as the Tantalus Site. But that quickly proved untrue. Terribly, horrifically untrue. The report said we’d be…
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Among The Wolves
Piotr Kowalczyk lived by a simple mantra, “Sweep and live.” He was an old man, nearly sixty-five, in July 1943 when the Nazis had rounded up all two hundred and…
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I’ve traveled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve seen are terrifying
I’m probably signing my own death warrant by writing this account. I know for a fact that I’m breaking at least a dozen federal laws with penalties that could send…
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Project Atlantis
I was part of Project Atlantis. Among the various scientific endeavors undertaken by the Russian government throughout the mid-late 20th century, underwater exploration was always kept quiet. Attempts had been…
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I’ve travelled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve seen are terrifying – Part 2
Read part one here Hello friends and fellow seekers of truth. I’m pleased to report that I am still alive and at large, for the time being at least. For…
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I’ve traveled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve seen are terrifying – Part 3
Read Part 1 hereRead Part 2 here Greetings friends and truth seekers. I am writing this with a heavy heart, and I believe this will be my last account before…
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The Only Vietnam Story I’ve Never Told
“Better Run Through the Jungle” My name is Michael Hasford. I am seventy-two years old and I have terminal bowel cancer. I haven’t told anyone this story in nearly fifty…
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The Pocket Watch
When I was a child there was nothing to eat. I was the eldest of five, so it was my job to make sure that I always let my brothers…
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Something happened in an Irish border town that was kept out of the history books
I’ll start this account by admitting I was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army during the early 1970's. I joined as a volunteer in the South Down Brigade…
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I attended a lecture delivered by a Servant of Hell
This is a story I promised to never tell. For years I told myself it wasn’t real, that I’d suffered from a paranoid delusion or mental breakdown on the day…
Read NowI was a British intelligence officer in Ireland during the 1970s. We unleashed something terrible.
From a young age I always knew I would become a soldier. I was born into an upper-class family with a proud military tradition. My grandfather was wounded at the…
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I am a foot soldier in a war against an alien race. This is my story.
Read Part one here Read Part two here Read Part three here This is a message to the citizens of the planet Earth. I am speaking to all races and…
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I’ve witnessed Hell’s invasion of the Earth. It can be stopped.
War is Hell. It’s an old adage but an accurate one. The death, loss and suffering which comes from violent conflict touches everyone involved – civilians and soldiers alike, and…
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Cursed Sands
Part 1 I've been many different things at different points in my life. I'm an eight year veteran of the United States Marine Corps who served in the Gulf War.…
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The Mansion And The Pond
To begin, I do not condone any actions that I myself do not directly commit while working here at The Agency. My peers, superiors, and comrades are responsible for what…
Read NowThings Best Left Buried
I felt it that day, something in the air wasn't right. The morning heat was setting in, and the bugs were eating us alive. The men were tense as the…
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He Said He Died In World War 2
The sandy-haired millennial, sitting opposite my desk, wagged his finger. “I never said I was a ghost, Doctor. I just told you I died. Do ghosts eat, breath, go to…
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I hunted down a monster from an alternate universe
The Traveller Series I’ve travelled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve seen are terrifying I’ve travelled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve seen are terrifying – Part 2 I’ve travelled…
Read NowMy grandpa served in both World Wars. He died dozens of times.
When I was a kid, I never really knew my grandfather Karl. Not only was he an ocean away, living in his home country while I grew up American, he…
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I grew up in Belfast during the 1970s. There was something far worse than gunmen stalking the streets.
It was tough coming of age in West Belfast during the early 70s, that’s for sure. I’m not making excuses for myself but – like many in my generation –…
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