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Blood Magic
I was almost friends with a monster when I was eleven years old. I would have preferred a human friend, but my family had just moved to a new city…
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Many Thanks
My family had a tradition that we would all exchange one gift on Thanksgiving Day to bring good fortune for the coming holiday season. We never gave anything fancy, just…
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The Attic in the Basement
(A short film based on The Attic in the Basement, winner of Best Director in the BC Student Film Festival) “Quiet down, back there!” I yelled whilst driving down an…
Read NowWhat You Need
Read Part One here Read Part Two here * * * HELLO AND WELCOME to our pre-Halloween sale at Cinderella’s Curios and Pawn! I’m Katrina Overman, and I’m so glad…
Read NowThe Unseen
Read Part One here Read Part Two here “You can’t fight what you can’t see or hear.” – Marion Strickler “For good to have any chance, there needs to be…
Read Now11 Woodlock Drive
Kevin stared at his new house on woodlock drive. It was a one floor plus finished basement house. It was nothing to sneeze at but for a bachelor like himself…
Read NowI Inherited the World’s Worst Genetic Condition
You think you know your family. What they look like, how they speak, how it feels when they pat you on the back and say ‘welcome home’. None of us…
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Infinity Game Guide
1. A Quick Word: Hey everyone, sorry this took longer than expected, but I was a little freaked out that first week. The smartest really do break hardest. My game…
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Advice From my Grandpa
My grandfather was a deeply religious man. He never missed a service, and he always proved to be a beacon of everything his faith stood for. He seemed like a…
Read NowThe Reenactors in my Town are Acting Strange
Let me just begin by saying that even though I’m not the biggest computer geek in the world, or by any means what you would refer to as an “iPad…
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Children Of The Sacred Gate
My name is Brother Arthro but I am told that I no longer need to use that name if I wish. I am to understand that my childhood has been…
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Plant The Seed
The sky over the golden kingdom had turned the color of an open wound. Lseynda pressed her back against the shattered remains of a marble colonnade and tried to breathe…
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Bread and Circuses
WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME, everything changed. Small towns rebuilt themselves into boisterous cities overnight. Weary farmers and their wives glowed with renewed vigor. Life was transformed from a series of…
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The Black Sarcophagus
The following are a collection of journals and reports pertaining to a series of strange and tragic occurrences befalling the Carter Archaeology Institute. Journal of Arnold Higgins, Archaeologist: July 7th,…
Read NowHow Summerville Got its Name
The white metal sign peppered with rusting bullet holes read Welcome to Summerville. Lara frowned, her foot lifting slightly from the accelerator. She leaned forward, squinting through the dust on…
Read NowThe Woman in the Mirror
Life tends to have its favorites, and I have never been one of them. My sister was lucky to be born first, as life favored her far before I came…
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Capricornus
I grew up on a small farm in the middle of nowhere, raised by Christian parents in the middle of the Bible Belt. Needless to say, my upbringing was…strict. Every…
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The Confession of Buck Curwen
In the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on December 8th, 2021, Buck W. Curwen was arrested on charges of grave robbing, kidnapping, breaking and entering, destruction of property, assault, double homicide,…
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Lives in the Balance
HAVE YOU EVER bargained with a ghost? We’re going to. We’re not supposed to be here, but none of us could resist the chance to sneak into the Durgee House…
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The Dark Man
My grandfather on my dad’s side passed away from cancer back in 2018 at the age of 75. Unlike my mom’s parents and my dad’s mom, my two brothers, my…
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Day Of Absolution
Read part one here This is Inspector Arthur Knight and the truth is I do not know why I am writing this. Perhaps it is the long trained need to…
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