The next time you are sick, ill, weakā¦ When your mind is foggy and your bed feels like the only place you can be; beware the Collector. It comes in the dark, in the silence. It comes for the decrepit, the unsound of mind, and the weak of body. Iāve seen it. I know what …
āNo, Mama! Mama, no! Please, Mama, donāt let them take me! Iāll be good, I swear!ā the girl screamed. Tears flowed from her eyes as she thrashed against the two-adult woman dressed in black. They held her arms firm and pulled her deliberately up a small set of stairs. āNow, now, young one, donāt fret …
Erica hated the lack of hygiene. Erica absolutely despised unhygienic people. Just thinking about the slightest chance of her physically touching a ādirtyā person chilled her spine. She refused to drink from another personās cup. She avoided sharing food with others. She would be utterly disgusted by people who talk loudly, whilst sprinkles of food …
It had been six months since the accident. I remember because Elizabeth was helping me sign my name in our daughter Jennyās birthday card. Slowly she guided by hand, helping me create some legible signature rather than the scribbles of a child in kindergarten, the best that I was able to manage with such little …
You know those people who you tell the time of events to 15 minutes early because you know they would be late? The ones who would be late to their own funerals, as the saying goes? Well, that’s me. Prepare as I might. I can never seem to get anywhere on time. It’s the most …
The spring flu had been going around the school like usual, but some people were sicker than normal. They didnāt just have fever and headache ā their faces were blotchy, their eyes bulged, and they all wheezed like theyād just run up ten flights of stairs without stopping. Cara McCormack was the first one who …
Let me just make something clear: IĀ neverĀ get to go out somewhere nice. Like ever. My best friend and I struggle just to pay our bills every month, so anything fancier than McDonald’s is usually out of the question. We’ll save up for months to go on one of our āroommate dates,ā so it’s a really …
āThe Candy Man can ’cause he mixes it with love, and makes the world taste good.ā ~Willy Wonka Every town has its ghost stories. Maybe itās the haunted house on the other side of the railroad tracks, or the spirit that haunts the tunnel in the woods, but people love talking about things that go …
Katy took a long hit on the pipe. Her eyes rolled up and back into her head. She choked on the smoke that invaded her lungs, and an attempt at a giggle was unsuccessful. Her blue eyes watered and her almost-laugh was strangled by another coughing fit. āIām gonna die!ā she managed to cough out. …
Any mother who has more than one child will admit-if sheās honest-that she has one child who worries her more than the others. This has nothing to do with love, but rather some childrenās propensity to find trouble-the child most likely to get in a fight at school, or picked up by the police for …
Itās a stabbing pain, really. It comes suddenly. Without warning. I donāt know how many doctors Iāve seen. Migraine? Migraine medications didnāt help. Tension headaches? Please. Iām fine most of the time. But then it hits. It hits right behind my eye. It attacks me. Like some tiny demon with an ice pick, stabbing my …
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 werenāt born yet. The picture sits over our mantle, embroidered in a gold frame. Dad always promised heād …
Itās been three days since I last used an app calledĀ Forbidden FruitsĀ and Iāve become weak to the point to where I can hardly stand for over five minutes. Iām coughing up blood, and I know that I have no choice but to open this goddamn app and make a new purchase. Itāll take around three …
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Working in a nuclear reactor is difficult work, no matter what the task. Even the most menial job, including mine – janitorial services – required rigorous education on emergency procedures, and that we be subjected to frequent training drills, and most tediously, handed flurries of clearance codes and floor plans. The maintenance staff never bothered …
I never wanted to go on that stupid hike in the first place. Yet there I was, allegedly enjoying nature and getting healthy exercise while hiking from ācabin to cabinā in the Norwegian mountains with the devil spawn otherwise known as my class. Woohoo, right? For a misanthropic misfit like myself, it was a nightmare. Within half an hour of walking on the uneven path over the heather, I was at the back of the group.
I recently discovered the most amazing resource to help those dealing with mental illnesses and personality disorders, and I want to share what Iāve learned with as many others as possible. Since I know so many struggle with these problems, I hope you find this information useful. But first, Iād like to tell you a …
You knowĀ those stories where a woman walks into the bar, meets a stunning man and gets pregnant, then finds out sheās bearing the offspring of Lucifer? Well, this is not one of those. My mother had me at a young age so, by the time I was 16, she was 38 and recently married. I …
āAre you absolutely positive you locked the door when you left?ā Deniseās voice was too desperate for her words to be an accusation. More like a plea. I adjusted the phone in my hand and the collar of my shirt. āYes. Absolutely. I went back up and checked.ā The latter was a lie, but I …
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Home again after a difficult but very rewarding day of convincing people not to give up on the gift of life. Richard Burner often had to deal with pretty stubborn suicidal people, but so far he had always been able to open their eyes to see all the beauty in the world and realize giving …
Lavender Town as seen in Red and Green The Lavender Town SyndromeĀ (also known as “Lavender Town Tone” or “Lavender Town Suicides”) was a peak in suicides and illness of children between the ages of 7-12 shortly after the release of PokĆ©mon Red and Green in Japan, back in February 27th, 1996. Rumors say that these …
