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The Arm of Antietam
My stomach rumbled as we approached the edge of the woods. It was nearly midday, but I hadn't eaten in hours. Supply troubles and nerves had left me with little…
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The Doom Tower Experiments
On Davidson Avenue, one mile east of Highway 164 and East Main Street Intersection, sits the entrance to Hillcrest Park, home of the now defunct Nike Missile Base, known to…
Read NowThe Siege of Innsmouth
Recently my great-grandfather died and me and my family inherited his house. We didn’t actually need it, since it was in another state, so we decided to sell it and…
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I’m a low level US Government employee. I just saw something I wasn’t supposed to see.
You know that meme about how presidents and governors, after getting elected, look super shell-shocked and stressed the next time they make a public appearance? Like the first thing that…
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A Lonely Machine
Roger glanced around the desert once more. Nothing but the cloudless sky and the sand scattering in the wind, with a few cacti dotted around the landscape. With nothing else…
Read NowI will follow you to Hell
Everywhere around me was fire, chaos, and death. The complex was under siege and my side was losing. The roof above me was burning and bullets were flying through the…
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The Europa War Trial
Read Part one here Read Part two here Read Part three here Read Part four here Read Part five here I awoke to chaos; my senses being simultaneously overwhelmed. A light brighter than…
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He who walks in choking rain
The seeping toxins of weaponized plague, flowing mercilessly into lungs begging for their salvation. The sea of gas blistering its way across the field of battle- it’s unprejudiced touch providing…
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Hell’s Civil War – The Iron Tower
Read Part one here Read Part two here It took a while for the circumstances of my death to come back to me. The memory was thrust back into my…
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I Can See in Four Dimensions
I can see in four dimensions. If that concept is a little hard to understand, I get it. It’s hard to deal with, too. While everybody in the world gauges…
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Only Following Orders
The story you are about to read is one that has been, for the last 70 years, left to wither in the hearts of those few who recall it. Of…
Read NowJust Another Summer in ‘95 Part Two
Read Part One here We both drove back to the station and handed in our gear and changed. I could still smell the faint odor clinging to my uniform. I…
Read NowJust Another Summer in ‘95
I want to say this happened in the early summer when our park was full of hikers, campers, and tourists. Montana had its beauty in those summer months, so I…
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News From the Front
Awash with terror, I lay in bed jumping and flinching at every creak. The old country house had always made such noises at night. The beams would creak, the windows…
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I ran security for a cultist outpost
Contrary to popular belief, not all cult members are crazy. I mean, they can be a bit nutty but the majority of members are just regular people, practicing their beliefs…even…
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Midnight at the mountains of Mourne
I remember the first time I saw the Mourne Mountains in the mist. It was a Friday, just after the rain had passed, and the clouds were still clinging to…
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Spearhead Unlit Frontier
The message has been smuggled via a plaintext file saved to a MicroSD that I pray survives its trip to the surface. If the journalist or civilian receiving this can…
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Ghost of the Trenches
November 11, 1918 9:00 am The war was coming to an end and Heinrich knew it. The Yankees had gotten involved and the once great German Empire was surrounded on…
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The Old Lie of the Dead Lands
The Old Lie of the Dead Lands 'frankness as never before, disillusions as never told in the old days, hysterias, trench confessions, laughter out of dead bellies. There died a…
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Hell’s Civil War – The Battle for Dis
Read part one here I awoke with a sudden gasp, my eyes shooting open as they slowly adjusted to my new surroundings. I felt a stifling heat and struggled to…
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The Siege of Area 51
Part 1 As you may have expected—though probably not with the particularly correct prescience—the siege of Area 51 ended disastrously for everyone involved. How do I know? I was of…
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Feral Hunting
“Romeo 3 this is Base Camp, how copy, over.” “Copy, Base Camp, we read you.” “ISR has registered no signatures within a twelve mile radius. You’re clear to advance to…
Read NowVae Victis
17-MAY-2008 Fort Huachuca, Arizona Just like the old marching cadence, it's the“Same old shit again” indeed. And now here I am marching my own Soldiers off to one of several…
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