Medical and Hospitals

27 Feb Something’s Wrong with Madeline

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Demons and Possession, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids 0 Comments

“No, Mama! Mama, no! Please, Mama, don’t let them take me! I’ll be good, I swear!” 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...

06 Feb The Late Show

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

They move again tonight. I lay and watch them, seeing as it’s 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...

25 Nov The Parker Express

Posted at 11:00h in Jobs and Occupations, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

Part 1 This is your captain speaking. I've just turned on the seat belt sign. We're expecting a fair amount of turbulence coming up, so we ask that you please remain seated until the sign is turned off. We're on pace to land at Newark International...

22 Sep They Need Help

Posted at 11:00h in Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained, Torture and Cannibalism 0 Comments

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 was all he could do to stop his hands from shaking. He looked at the...

21 Sep Does it Hurt When You Die?

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Ghosts and Spirits, Hell and the Afterlife, Illness and Injuries, Medical and Hospitals, Religion and Spirituality 0 Comments

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...

15 Aug The Lucky One

Posted at 11:00h in Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

Any mother who has more than one child will admit-if she’s honest-that she has one child who worries her more than the others. This has nothing to do with love, but rather some children’s propensity to find trouble-the child most likely to get in a...

01 Aug Let Me Go

Posted at 11:00h in Dreams and Nightmares, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Jobs and Occupations, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

“I can’t sleep,” she whispered as she crawled into bed and spooned against my back. “Jesus, you’re cold,” I murmured. She only snuggled closer, throwing her leg over mine. I lay there for a few beats, caught between my alcohol-induced sleep and wakefulness, until I realized whatever...

04 Jul I’m a Cop, and I Institutionalized Someone I Knew Wasn’t Crazy

Posted at 11:00h in Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Sarah Barkley. I'm a cop in a small, rural, Pennsylvania town currently stuck working the night shift. I work with a lot of older guys, so they tend to treat me like a rookie...

01 May The Last Body I Ever Cut Open

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Body Horror, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites, Medical and Hospitals, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Slashers and Gore, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Craig Brockwell was found by his wife, dead on their living room floor, a plastic garbage bag tied off around his neck, and an empty bottle of Xanax on the kitchen counter, next to a suicide note. My initial external examination of the body revealed no...

22 Mar A Lonely Machine

Posted at 11:00h in Body Horror, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals, Military and Warfare, Psychological Horror, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

Roger glanced around the desert once more. Nothing but the cloudless sky and the sand scattering in the wind, with a few cacti dotted around the landscape. With nothing else to do, he checked his magazine, already knowing how many bullets he had. Full. Adjusting...

04 Mar Don’t Wear Contacts Made by NewLife Vision

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Medical and Hospitals, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I don’t know about everyone else, but I have always had terrible vision. Generally, it gets worse from year to year, but there are some years I’m able to skip the decay. I wear contact lenses because I’ve tried to avoid the nerd stigma my...

03 Feb You Humans Are Terrifying

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Demons and Possession, Drugs and Addictions, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

I know that people are going to call this out as bullshit so I'll just say it right now. I'm a demon. At least that's what most people would call me. The truth of what I am and where I'm from is a bit out of the...

29 Jan I Never Should Have Cured My Tinnitus

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Medical and Hospitals, Rites and Rituals, Sounds and Voices, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Tinnitus: a nightmare of a disease affecting millions of people, myself included. How could I best describe this condition? An incessant, nail on a chalkboard screeching that goes on for every minute of every day. Just imagine never experiencing the true bliss of utter silence. Maybe it’s...

26 Dec Night Nurse

Posted at 19:00h in Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites, Medical and Hospitals, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuwaWChxW6o[/embedyt] I just got this sweet little job over on the Northside. It's too cool; I sit with this old lady from the evening to early morning. I don't like to party and all that, so I don't mind. I get there and feed her...

27 Oct Rattle-Face Fever

Posted at 16:00h in Medical and Hospitals, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

The new epidemic is already beyond its patient zero. Whether or not I am infected, I am confident that Mr. Bridestar will soon have me murdered. He will do this in order to keep the disease’s name unknown. I won’t let him win, though. At...

26 Jul Patient Files

Posted at 16:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Medical and Hospitals, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

This week, I was supposed to digitize all of Dr. Marnen's patient files. I was feeling good about my progress when I saw it. A second filing cabinet, hiding behind the shelves, that I’d never noticed before. Sighing with fatigue, I yanked open the first drawer. I...

04 Jul The Boy in the Window

Posted at 16:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Ghosts and Spirits, Illness and Injuries, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

She tried pulling herself back, but however hard she tried, however hard she pushed, she could not stop her feet dragging her towards the open window. She dug her heels into the wooden floor, feeling splinters coming off it as her feet dragged her onward. Her...

02 Jul The Sound of Silence

Posted at 16:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

The road had been covered in a dense fog. Denise decided to rent a room for the night, seeing as she had parked near an unfamiliar hotel. She got out of her car, looking around for any signs of an entrance within the grey haze....

01 Jun If I Only Had A Brain

Posted at 06:18h in Body Horror, Dreams and Nightmares, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

“Alright, can you count backwards from 50 for me please?” The nurse asked sweetly. I nodded and opened my mouth. “50, 49, 48, 47…” I could barely remember finishing the numbers, as all I could suddenly see was darkness, as my mind succumbed to the anesthesia. Before...

01 May Hospital Hill

Posted at 03:44h in Ghosts and Spirits, Locations and Sites, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

John sat with his grandmother on the balcony terrace overlooking West Bay Road and the lower Hampshire valley. The lush green fields from springtime were now singed-brown; the lack of rainwater that summer was turning the place into the Mojave Desert. A screaming hawk flew...

21 Apr The Nurse in Black

Posted at 09:11h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Medical and Hospitals 0 Comments

I am Andrea Lewis, and I am a nurse. This is my story, and how I came to care for my patient, Andrew. Andrew had always been different from the other children. His frail body and weak immune system were two factors in a life filled with...

24 Oct My Wife Won’t Stop Sleep Talking

Posted at 12:45h in Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals 1 Comment

My wife and I moved into our new apartment just a few months ago. Before this, we lived in a large cottage overlooking a beautiful lake. It was my wife's dream home for the three years we lived there. We didn't want to leave, but...

28 May Madness and Mockingbirds

Posted at 00:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals, Slashers and Gore 0 Comments

White. That was Jim’s world. The walls were white, the floor was white, the orderlies wore white. It was an upsetting, all-encompassing white which left him feeling a little dizzy. And there wasn’t much for him to do besides be absorbed in it. Occasionally, the sounds of...

22 May Out of Hell

Posted at 23:59h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals, Strange and Unexplained 18 Comments

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...