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Son of the Dragon
The Topkapi Palace was alight with the celebratory shouts of the governors, generals, and janissaries though none was heard so loudly as Sultan Mehmed II for his great Ottoman Empire…
Read NowThe God Ticket
My wife is going to kill herself in 5 to 7 business days. I'd found the order for a jug of Xanaphril while clearing the internet history of porn and…
Read NowI’ve been locked inside this warehouse for 42 hours and everyone is missing
1 I don’t know if anyone will end up reading this. Fuck I don't even know if theres anyone left outside this damn building. The last time I looked out…
Read NowIn The Mirror
Normally you sleep soundly, but the thunderstorm raging outside is stirring you from your sleep. You begin to doze, then another crash jolts you awake. The cycle lasts most of…
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Death’s Usher: Unhallowed Ground
Read Part One here Read Part Two here Read Part Three here TRAVEL is an eye-opening, life-changing experience. That’s what merchants and adventurers at the Pit always told me. They…
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Behind the Shadows
This will not be a typical story. In fact, what I intend to share includes several different events, which I have only recently come to see as being linked. Despite…
Read NowBook 159: 7 of Them
1. I remember it very well, that one day in October. I came home later than I usually would. We were understaffed and I had to work over hours. What…
Read NowCarnival Burgers
As many college students do, I practically lived off fast food and pizza delivery during my years as an undergraduate. I went to a school in my home town, so…
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Death’s Usher: Curse of the Dhampir
I CAN’T MOVE. I can’t speak. I can’t breathe. The only thing keeping me alive right now, despite the stake in my chest, is the black substance running through my…
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He Won’t Stop Tapping
I live in an attic, a small renovated space in a house that’s older than most. I always pay my rent on time, keep quiet after 9 PM, and am…
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…And We’re Back
Yesterday… …And we’re back in five… four… three… two… one… [talk-show host] Greg, tell us your thoughts about the movie; the release is only three days after the anniversary of…
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I Think I’m Trapped in a Sitcom
Room 371. Some hotel near the Cape. I was on a business trip with my boss, closing in on the final set of investors we needed to launch our latest…
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Into the Velvet Hallways
In 2017, I tasted death for the first time. Naturally speaking, I wasn’t dead, but I wasn’t alive either; I do not know what I was, or where I was.…
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The Earth Hates You
Two weeks. That's how long it took for my life to fall apart. Two weeks for everything I ever loved or cared about to be taken from me in the…
Read NowThe Deployment
May 4th, 2009 This is my first entry. I’m keeping this journal as part of my recovery. My therapist has recommended I start tracking my thoughts, observations and memories to…
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The Building in the Woods
A week ago, if you had asked me if I believed in things that went bump in the night, I would have looked at you as if you’d just escaped…
Read NowThe Children on the Stairs
I was doing a job for a friend of a friend. I was only charging half what I’d normally charge, but I was doing the job over just two nights,…
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The Birds Are Singing
I don't like telling this story and most people don't believe it when I do. It brings back too many painful memories, memories that I've been running away from since…
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A Crooked Man
The Crooked Man was tired,His aching bones grew weary.A longing for death he had acquired,His mind filled with thoughts so eerie. He wondered why he was the only one to…
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The Strangers
My name is Andrew Erics. I used to live in a city you probably heard of called New York. My mother is Terrie Erics—Teresa, really. She's in the phone book…
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