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Publisher's Note: This story is a prequel and takes place before all of the previously released Father Cooke and Magister Alexander stories,…
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“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth.” ¬- Chuck Palahniuk By the time I had…
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A few days ago, I uprooted my entire existence and relocated to the Southwest Cape of Stewart Island, New Zealand. Initially, I…
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The three of us sit together in my backyard, beer bottles spread all around our little triangle. Leftover garbage from the sandwiches…
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The first thing Courtney noticed as he pulled his beat up old Ford into Rod’s driveway was the massive gash in the…
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The Only Vietnam Story I’ve Never Told
“Better Run Through the Jungle” My name is Michael Hasford. I am seventy-two years old and I have terminal bowel cancer. I…
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Sometimes I miss the dreamy sensations that came with childhood, like the excitement of visiting an amusement park. Back then they seemed…
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6:52 AM Another nightmare. I wake up in a pool of my own sweat. My heart is pounding and my brain feels…
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I had moved into a new apartment with my girlfriend about two years ago. It was pretty small; it had only a…
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"It's time to sleep now, Justin. Seriously. You're getting too old for this." My father stated, while slipping the covers underneath the…
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I’m a Vigilante Online Predator Hunter
I’m a vigilante online predator hunter, and I can’t explain the bizarre things that happened last night. I jolted awake in bed…
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I am awake. I don’t recall falling asleep and am not real sure how I got into bed, but I am awake…
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Nobody lived in flat number six. As far as we were aware, it was empty. The date was October 1992 and my…
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“Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there,” the man at the bar said to me, nursing a fresh…
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Some people might recall some momentary buzz caused a couple of years ago by a particularly odd Morrowind mod. The file name…
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