Her Horrific Inheritance
The envelope was thick, cream-colored, and addressed to me in elegant, unfamiliar script. It arrived on a day like any other –…
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How far am I willing to go to make my dream come true? Through hell and back, that’s what I kept telling…
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Monsters Are Better Than Nightmares
I met my girlfriend's nightmare on the night of our three-month anniversary. It might have just been that point in our relationship…
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My Wife Has a Removable Face
Samantha told me about it on our third date. We were watching a movie on her couch when I made my move…
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Return To Northridge
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We’re all a little weird
"This shit always happens. First no service, and now no food," Teresa said, brow furrowed and pointing across the campfire before burying…
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Santa Saved Me
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NoEnd House
Let me start by saying that Peter Terry was addicted to heroin. We were friends in college and continued to be after…
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The Girl in the Middle of the Road
She was just sitting there, in the middle of the slender, two lane back road when I was making my way back…
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Purgatory Street
If you walk through a certain run-down, inner-city area located in a working-class northern town, there’s a chance you’ll stumble across a…
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What Happens at Dillerson Farm
In the world, there are locations that some may consider “strange”. Of course, there are typically haunted houses and old burial grounds…
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Spiders in the Ceiling
It wasn’t until my early 30’s that I developed my arachnophobia. As a kid, I had what most would consider to be…
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Sleep Singing
My wife had always been a sound sleeper. She never snored, talked in her sleep, nor was she particularly restless. Oftentimes, she'd…
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Leaves of Three
After the night I just had, I do not know whether I should call the cops, roll up in a ball and…
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I felt it that day, something in the air wasn't right. The morning heat was setting in, and the bugs were eating…
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The Writer and the Mimic
My wife died at 1:33pm on a Friday afternoon. Her passing was not unexpected. Polly had been diagnosed with breast cancer the…
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I must have been six or seven when I lived in Lebanon. The country was ravaged by war at the time, and…
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I hunted down a monster from an alternate universe
The Traveller Series I’ve travelled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve seen are terrifying I’ve travelled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve…
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Hope’s End
The buzzing of my phone pulled my eyes away from the road. An image of a smirking dark haired woman and the…
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Entry 1: Phonemes There is something peculiar about Phillip, one of my 9th graders. He used to be exceptional at English. I…
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