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Something is making Me do Random Tasks for People I don’t Know
I need to start this out with the simple fact that I’ve never had any mental issues in the past and I also haven’t used any drugs, not even the…
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Frequency X.XX
The old radio crackled to life, the static a constant hiss against the silence of Alex's room. He'd been tinkering with the dials for hours, searching for the usual crackle…
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Don’t Trust the Ones Who Protect You
They call her the queen of mischief at King City High School—a title she earned with little effort. No one matched her audacious, rule-breaking nature. Fear held everyone back, for…
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Planting on Mars
The Clements Agricultural Space Crew, planting division, was ready for launch. Rex and Silas were strapped in tight. The weather was clear, and all systems go. The germ rate of…
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Under This Thing’s Maw
The tears are impossible to hold back as she watches this... this thing, eat away at all the corpses. The corpses of her co-pilots. Her... closest friends. With clawed, kaiju…
Read NowMy Watch Thinks I’m Nameless
My wife had been on me about my weight for a while. Said I needed to start taking my health seriously — “for our children,” whatever that means. I didn’t…
Read NowCold Heart
Lucy was good at hide-and-seek. Maybe even the best. Other children were always hiding in the most obvious places—a closet, under the car, behind the sofa. But Lucy knew better…
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The Forgotten Family
With trembling hands, Liam gingerly lifted his father's reading glasses off the surface of the small upstairs office desk. He knew that he couldn't keep his father, Gordon, waiting for…
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Leaving Town
My body floated through space. I was weightless, drifting towards the moon. As I got closer, I began to feel. First normal sensations. Then deep, extreme pain. With a loud…
Read NowRiley, My Haunted Halloween Doll
My name is Lydia. I’m 30 years old, and I love celebrating Halloween with my best friend, Martha. Martha and I have been best friends ever since we were ten…
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It’s Safer To Be Afraid Of The Light
Richard removed the lightswitch to the basement stairwell. It wasn’t that he simply disabled it, no. He removed the entire thing. Plastic covering, screws, the switch box—all of it. Though,…
Read NowInside, There Was Nothing
The chill was the first thing I found odd. Florida was notorious for having unreasonably humid summers and this one had been no exception. More often than not, when the…
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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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I fell asleep in the Mexico City subway
It’s always fun to walk down Mexico City at night. The distant sounds of the street’s music boxes coupled with the visible smoke of the tamale carts and the streetlights…
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The Hallway Wasn’t Empty
Did you know that, once introduced to routine, our brains are capable of accepting it to the extent that when something changes, it doesn’t notice? The change could be small…
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[Casefile #233UT] : Forever
Doctor Elliot Winslow of [H.S.E. Research Institute] [Casefile #233UT] The following evidence has been translated from pen and paper to binary text directly from the 'personal account' of one County…
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The Dipping Cup
Schalach cast the seed in smooth arcs across the lightly tilled fields as he walked at a steady, measured pace. At every fifth step, he dipped the smooth, well-worn cup…
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Persephone Syndrome
The time was 12:55pm, Friday August 4th, 2028. It was a hot day in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as all days are in the middle of Summer. That didn’t stop the party…
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No one likes the dark
“All a skeptic is is someone who hasn’t had an experience yet.” — Jason Hawes“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”…
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They Need Help
Shawn took one last drag of his cigarette. He didn't smoke regularly, but this occasion nearly called for one. It had been years since his last job interview, and it…
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