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short stories
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Showing posts with label
short stories
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Jun 8, 2014
TAPPING
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It's been happening for the past couple of months. The tapping, I mean. Every night, just as I'm about to drift off to sleep, ther...
Jun 4, 2014
PIGGYBACK
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There was once a couple who did nothing but bicker with each other. One night, after a particularly big fight, the father accidentally kil...
May 30, 2014
GOING DOWN
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I just got done working overtime. I was really late going home; I checked my watch and saw that it was already almost midnight. When I a...
May 28, 2014
REFLECTION
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One cold winter night, sixteen-year-old Kelly Sanders was home alone, as her parents had gone out to a dinner party at a friend's hous...
May 26, 2014
THE HORRIBLE MAN
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I’d actually seen him on our way home from school. He looked dirty and disturbed, and stared straight at us as our bus went by. We even ma...
May 22, 2014
THE LAUGHING
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I'd already been out there for about four days, doing some off trail hiking, and I had a great time. I used to love going out in the w...
May 19, 2014
THE MIRRORS
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Normally you sleep soundly, but the thunderstorm raging outside is stirring you from your sleep. You begin to doze, then another crash jol...
May 10, 2014
BASEMENT ROOM
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Years ago, my family went on a vacation in Cape Cod and we rented a small old house to stay in for two weeks. On the main floor was the ...
Apr 29, 2014
THE OCEAN
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I never saw the ocean until I was nineteen, and if I ever see it again, it will be too damn soon. I was a child, coming out of the train, ...
Apr 25, 2014
RAKE
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During the summer of 2003, events in the northeastern United States involving a strange, humanlike creature sparked brief local media inte...
Apr 14, 2014
IMAGINATION
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There it goes again. Something definitely moved this time. It was very brief, but out of the corner of your eye, you saw something. But wa...
Apr 9, 2014
NO ONE WAS HOME
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A mother and father decided they needed a break, not having much alone time in the almost a year since their young son, Toby, was born. Th...
Apr 7, 2014
THANKS
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It's 3 a.m., and you've been up all night on a horror binge. You've watched your favorite horror movies, read your favorite sc...
Apr 2, 2014
OLD HAG
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It's a simple enough thing. It's all a part of the body's sleep processes. Sleep Paralysis, right? No big deal, really. Your b...
Mar 9, 2014
OLD MACDONALD HAD A FARM
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Back in 1994 my brother Josh was working as an on-site technician for a large phone company. His role was twofold: Firstly to set up new l...
Feb 26, 2014
CRAPPYPASTA: VOO DOO DOCTOR
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It was a cold winter day I was walking through the forest and I heard screaming. I looked around but nothing was there I just kept walking...
Jan 20, 2014
SARAH O'BANNON
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Coffins used to be built with holes in them, attached to six feet of copper tubing and a bell. The tubing would allow air for victims buri...
Jan 15, 2014
MY LAST NIGHT BABYSITTING
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After much wavering and second guessing, I finally bit the bullet and returned to graduate school last fall. I'm sure several of you k...
Jan 2, 2014
LIGHTNING
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We had just moved into a little ranch house in the suburbs. Storybook neighborhood – quiet, friendly neighbors, picket fences, the whole...
Dec 17, 2013
M SHOW FAN CLUB
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When I was 9 years old I had a favorite TV series. It had human actors and actors in animal suits and funny and educational clips in betwe...
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