There are few left alive who remember the Song and Dance Man. Time has claimed the ones that survived the long night and Iâm sure they went willingly to meet their maker. Life takes on a strange tint after a night like that. The ones still left...
Would you believe me if I told you that genies were real? They are, but they're not like anything you'd expect them to be. The stories say that you have to rub a magic lamp to get them to come out, but that's only half...
Dark, cold and eerie. Those are the only words I can come up with to describe the house in which I had lived with my family for the majority of my life. Mostly dark, blistering cold during the winter, and always eerie. Sometimes there would...
Everyone has heard of the boogeyman. A creature, tall and dark who comes out at night and prays on fearful children. The story is a classic tale, one that every kid and their neighbor like to scare each other with during sleepovers. People have come up...
Thereâs an old, abandoned mission in the hills west of Tucumcari, New Mexico. Itâs about a 3-hour hike from the nearest access point by car. Itâs not marked on any map and thereâs no clear trail to it, but if you had a day or...
The top half of Councilman Jonesâ body hung by a steel cable looped around his neck and tied off to an old oak tree on one end. It was still dripping blood, bones and veins and torn bits of intestines dangling down where the legs...
Itâs quite an interesting concept: those little âpass it onâ messages, I mean. Chain letters and people telling you, âpost this in five different comments or else youâll die tonight.â Interesting indeed, but the idea lacks originality. Itâs the same story with each one. âPass...
He turns the steering wheel in different directions, taking different roads when he needs to. He needs to go through the woods to get to his destination. Heâs confused, but not about that. What confuses him is why his sister is being so silent as she...
I was raised Evangelical. Miraculous healing, speaking in tongues, Godâs voice speaking through people, Jesus Camps, and Christian School. Yep. Christian School. My. Whole. Life. These were all realities to me- and my faith never wavered. You know what? That is a lie, and I...
This story happened when I was about 13 years old. It was a hot summer afternoon and my buddy and I were bored and looking for something to do. For the purposes of this story, I will refer to my friend as Hank. Hankâs older...
They move again tonight. I lay and watch them, seeing as itâs all I can do. They slip and slide through the street lamp window curtain shaded light and I know my eyes have begun to fail. Or perhaps the eyes are fine and my...
Chapter One Every morning was the same morning, Happy dressed in faded jeans, a white t-shirt, and ball cap as he grabbed his bag and rushed off to catch the bus. It was more than a ride to him, though, it was a hunting ground. From...
Mayukoâs Gameboy suddenly turned off. She rolled her eyes and let out a loud sigh: the stupid thing ran out of batteries, again. Mayuko shoved it inside her backpack and looked around. Surprisingly enough, the wagon was completely empty, aside from herself. Usually, the train would...
It was nothing new. Just a normal trip to the lake. My friends and I had gone to lake Thunderbird many times on weekends, it was our favorite retreat from college and family and everything else that stressed us. I was 19 at the time,...
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 would knock and the wind would howl down the fireplace. I had not always been so...
My grandfather on my dadâs side passed away from cancer back in 2018 at the age of 75. Unlike my momâs parents and my dadâs mom, my two brothers, my sister and I knew very little about âGrandpa Henryâ. All that we knew about him...
My first love was Misty from PokĂŠmon. Those legs, that sass, she was absolutely perfect. No one else could ever compare. When I played the games, Iâd hang around her gym and pretend that we were on a date. I built my team to be...
It had been six months since the accident. I remember because Elizabeth was helping me sign my name in our daughter Jennyâs birthday card. Slowly she guided by hand, helping me create some legible signature rather than the scribbles of a child in kindergarten, the...
We were having another lockdown drill when I found out about Holly Reyes. I was in Social Studies, third period, when Principal Westonâs muffled voice spat at us from the ceiling. We all sighed and ducked under the long tables, limbs shoving aside plastic chairs...
âCan we go on the roller coaster?â âSure we can,â Kent assured his son, whose eyes brimmed with hope and enthusiasm. Little Brian ran ahead towards the ride as his father walked quickly behind. It was one of those old, rickety coasters that wonât keep you...
Part One The plodding stench of dilapidated wood and animal urine brings the young Taylor Jenkins to consciousness. His eyes open and adjust to a dark interior, the sparse chandelier sparkling precariously above his head. The splintered wood creaks and digs into his back as he...
It was in early November of 1997 that a series of very strange sessions led a child psychologist in Maine to contact the authorities. It began when a patient of his began to tell him about one of their âfriendsâ. This friend being imaginary as far...
It was cold. Cold and dark. Thatâs all I could feel when I stared into the black abyss, that made up its eyes. There was a tingling sensation in my feet, that slowly rose up in my body like panic trapped inside of me. I...
My brother has always had a dream of being a great filmmaker. For as long as I can remember itâs been his obsession. He got a video camera for his eighth birthday and would literally film everything with it, even the most mundane things. He would...