With reluctance, I walked into the stuffy classroom. Hugging my arms close to my chest, I watched my feet walk across the tile floor. A dark haired woman stopped me before I could make my way to the seat I had eyed at the back of the classroom. She smiled, then rested her hands on […]
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Silence: A Short Story
The fire alarm down at the paper mill goes off again, and enters the world through every earhole in the city.
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The Eliminating Angel
In the town of Knoxford, there is a growing darkness within Joseph the moonshiner.
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The Surgeon
“Why do you hate?”
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The Thing At The Piano
Step inside the Conklin house and meet The Thing At The Piano: a creepy tale in 666 words.
Christmas Blues by E. Reyes Barry felt he had to do it, but he was scared to death about the deadline that would ensue. The man in the black suit told him to think about it for a minute or two and either walk away or make a deal. The sun had just fallen […]
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The Chimney by Baylea Hart
The Chimney It was the smell of soot that woke her – thick and smoky, like a fire left burning for too long in a closed room. On any other evening Ethel might have been frightened, and may have forced herself through the oily darkness of her bedroom into the comfort of her parents […]
Frederick stood 50 feet from the entrance of the haunted house while his teammates pleaded with him to go inside. He rattled off a bunch of statistics of mechanical failings in these kinds of pop-up carnivals while they rolled their eyes. “Just 3 years ago in Iowa, the roof came loose and injured 5 people. […]
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The Old Man…And His Wife
A cul de sac: a dead end street with only one way in and/or out. A cul de sac community: everyone knows everyone, including their business. It’s all a façade, at twenty years old, I see right past them. At twenty years old, I learned that the only way in and/or out of this cul […]
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Sabrina Called
It was just after eight in the morning and the traffic was sluggish in London due to the heavy downpour. David, who kept one eye on the static traffic outside the bus window and the other on the driver who seemed to be wilfully going nowhere, was battling with the indignation that all commuters feel […]