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For Old Times Sake
āāsup?ā 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 strangerā¦
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The Rag and Bone Man
News came to London in the year 1820 of a series of brutal murders which had been committed throughout the neighboring counties. Reports that a monstrous man ā broad, roughlyā¦
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The Sewer Under The Lighthouse
You were always against moving away from your family and friends. You didnāt want to leave the city, the coast never appealed to you anyway. You didnāt want to moveā¦
Read NowDementia Dream
My lucid dreams have become lucid nightmares against my will. I donāt know where else to write about it other than my dream journal, so in my journal itāll go.ā¦
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The Haunting Melody
Deep within the dark, foreboding woods, nestled among the gnarled trees and overgrown shrubs, stood the abandoned cabin, shrouded in mystery. Its cracked walls and broken windows bore witness toā¦
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The Edwardsville Lottery
Some of you may have read āThe Lotteryā at one point or another, whether it was of your own pleasure or rather a part of your schools curriculum. We donātā¦
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The White Wolf of Woodberry
Jackās heavy footsteps crash across the muddy ground of the forest. His breath is heavy and ragged, having been running for what felt like hours. He was properly lost, havingā¦
Read NowI Was The First
Yuri Gagarin was the first man to enter space. Youād be hard-pressed to find someone ignorant of this fact. The knowledge of his feat seems almost universal, the Soviet cosmonautāsā¦
Read NowLeave It Be
It seemed as if I were awakening from a dream when I snapped to in the middle of the sidewalk, stopping in my tracks while people behind me yelled asā¦
Read NowA Somber Evening
The cold winter air whipped past the buildings as thousands of people trudged through the snow-covered streets. The tall buildings cast long, imposing shadows over the citizens as they wentā¦
Read NowPia VirgÅ
The roman forum was beautiful. The painted marble gleamed in the spring sun and there was a breeze fluttering through the trees. Great flowers climbed the concrete buildings and floweredā¦
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Spiral Bound
I used to draw spirals in the margins of my notebooks when I was a kid. I donāt know why. They made me feel calm, like if I just keptā¦
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One Last Crimson Heart
One last crimson heart. That's all there was. John stood in the storage closet-like room, barely breathing. The only light was a sliver from the hallway and a flickering incandescentā¦
Read NowThe Last Sermon of Malachi
No one ever talks about the sounds. They talk about the body.They talk about the wire.They talk about the eyes.But no one talks about the sounds.Because if they didā¦ theyādā¦
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Post Mortem
I wouldnāt say it was instantaneous, I was always more open to the depraved thoughts the brain forces you to think about when youāre alone. The kind of thoughts thatā¦
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Room With No Windows
As his aged, wrinkled fingers weaved through the long beard flowing from his face, that noise came again. Only this time, it was louder. There he sat, hunched over theā¦
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Black Balloons
The balloons flew over a month after the economy collapsed. It had been hanging on by a thread for a while, but eventually, our government couldnāt afford basic human needsā¦
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The Terror From Beyond the Void
IT SKITTERED its way across the leaves, and I knelt down to get as close as I could. Eight legs, black body ā it was one of the feared ones;ā¦
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My Bestfriend Was a Ghost Hunter, I Wish I Never Went.
āCome on.ā The voice was distant but still clear. āYouāre dragging your feet. You didnāt have to come. You wanted to. So letās go.ā Her voice had irritation to it,ā¦
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