Children and Childhood 1

14 Sep Little Dead Nancy

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‘Little Dead Nancy, Sitting on the bench, One eye long, and one eye gone, Little Dead Nancy, The red swing’s open, come take a seat, and swing with me!’ I almost completed the summoning of Nancy back when I was a kid. I was somewhere in the second grade, I’d just moved to...

12 Sep The Promise

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The anniversary of Layne’s death wasn’t for another three days, but when “Cochise” came on the radio as I approached that curve, I took it as a sign. Layne’s favorite song. I pressed the gas and shifted gears as Chris Cornell began to wail. The...

06 Sep I’ve Been Stuck in School Detention for Three Years

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Part 1 It was stupid and immature. I'll be the first to admit that. But it's not like I killed anyone. And if you want to try to understand things from my perspective, there was really no way that I could not do it. First, because his name was...

21 Aug My Daughter is Dying

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Tina was a good baby. Ever since she was born, other mothers watched us with envious, longing faces. She was so quiet and peaceful. She was a good sleeper and didn’t mind being put in the crib; most nights, I could make it only waking...

13 Aug My Middle School Had Its Own Variation of Bloody Mary, But She Was Real

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Everyone knows the story of Bloody Mary and everyone knows how to “summon” her: say her name three times in front of a mirror with the lights off. Of course, there are slight variations to the exact story depending on where you live, but it’s...

09 Aug The Lake

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Cryptozoology has always been a minor interest of mine. I say minor because it was something I’d only enjoyed casually: a few internet articles here and there, scrolling through a couple of pages on a Tumblr blog dedicated to it, maybe watching one of those...

07 Aug The Awful Thing We Did to Eliza

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Dad said a man was coming from the city to photograph us tomorrow. I never had a photograph taken of me before. My parents had one taken with James when he was a baby. Eliza and I weren’t born yet. The picture sits over our mantle,...

31 Jul My Daddy Always Picked Me Up At the Bus Stop

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“My daddy always picked me up at the bus stop.” I was surprised by a tiny voice saying that, in the cramped corridors of the crappy apartment complex my brother used to live in. The girl was like a cornered kitten in every way. I asked...

30 Jul Coming Home

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Before I start I should mention that the names of the crew who worked on the movie have been either changed or omitted. That being said, in 2016 an up-and-coming film director started work on a film that he thought would get his name out...

22 Jul The Truth About Peter Pan

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Peter Pan is not what most people think he is...

17 Jul Comus

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Nature and the Outdoors, Torture and Cannibalism 0 Comments

There’s an image that I keep pushed away in the back of my mind. Occasionally, it makes its way out and I can see that horrid face once more. My limbs go numb and I can feel my throat begin to tighten as every grotesque...

12 Jul Milk Carton Kid

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“So why are you here?” she asked. Pretty standard opening for a psychologist sitting down with a patient for the first time. She was young, pretty and Shahrokh (an unnecessarily ethnic name) immediately felt comfortable in her presence. “Well, before I launch into what’s been happening recently...

11 Jul Accidents Happen

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Nature and the Outdoors, Survival Horror 0 Comments

As a kid sometimes your perception of reality and fantasy get all mixed up inside your head, one minute you're playing with dolls then the next they're taking you on some kind of mystical adventure through enchanted kingdoms and large castles. Lost in your own...

08 Jul Why I’ll Never Work Security At Disney World Again

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Conspiracies and Government, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites 0 Comments

I work in security at Disney World, the happiest place on Earth. Typically, I wouldn’t say where I work as obviously there are some pretty strict rules about things employees can put online, but I just don’t think I can tell this properly without that...

06 Jul The Wolves of These Frozen Woods

Posted at 11:00h in Animals and Wildlife, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Nature and the Outdoors 0 Comments

I can’t stand to be back here. This tiny, rural town I grew up in, it makes my skin crawl to see everything around me. I’m well into middle-age now, but it’s like this town has been frozen in time since I was a teenager. And...

06 Jul A Boy in a Michael Myers Mask

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Halloween Stories 0 Comments

“Considering how much crap people give this movie, it honestly isn’t that bad,” Mark said while taking another sip of his beer. His wife, Claire, took another fistful of popcorn from her bowl. “Just you wait. This is one of my favorite parts coming up.” In the next...

30 Jun Freak Next Door

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I lived next to this one kid who always had bandages wrapped around their whole head, even covering their face. I remembered his name was Wilbur, a twelve-year-old boy who never left his house. He sometimes looked out of his bedroom window on the top floor,...

11 Jun My Sister’s Hair

Posted at 11:00h in Body Horror, Children and Childhood, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness 0 Comments

I wish I had my big sister’s hair. Hers is soft and light. Touching her arms is like touching peach fuzz. When she sweats her skin looks like melted butter. It’s not fair. My hair is thick, wiry, and black as spider legs. I’m only...

07 Jun Hands

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The worst thing I’ve ever done in my life happened about twelve years ago, when I was a sixteen-year-old kid living in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the early fall, when the leaves were just starting to turn orange and the temperatures were starting to fall,...

05 Jun The Moors

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The soggy heathland hugged itself underneath a dome sky. Tracts of mire lay sunken in some places, valleys of soft earth unable to withstand the oppressive atmosphere above it, while other acres were crumpled against the high rock beneath them. Dry and tender grass creased by...

28 May Don’t Let Them In

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Drugs and Addictions, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

Addiction took our mother slowly, rocked her through it and sung her to sleep sunk deep into the mattress on her bed. When her back teeth fell out, she left them on the side of the bathtub. I was seven, and I kept them in...

23 May Joe Made a Choice

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All Joe Jenkins wanted was to go to bed. Work had been tough on him and lunch, hardly edible. Not to mention, his car’s CD player (yes, CD player) was broken, and no radio station was playing Alice in Chains on a loop like he would...

20 May Henry

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The rain beat a steady rhythm on the asphalt. In the dark sky above, the rumble of distant thunder rolled slowly toward us. “Daniel.” The sound of my name pulled me from my reverie. I turned my head away from the drenched playground and toward Miss...

17 May Why I Hate Lightning McQueen

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I don’t think I can put into words, how good it feels being a Father. I love Daniel more than I could possibly say. His bright, shining smile, his endless curiosity about the world around him, and his gentle, loving nature. I didn’t think I was...