"He goes to inspect a property he's interested in and finds more than an abandoned house!"
The decrepit old house stood alone high on the hill outside of town. Known as the Connelly mansion, it had become the stuff of many rumors, scary tales, and legends.Some said the place was the scene of a gruesome family...
"Something is in the house with me"
It was a time before midnight when I woke up from a window banging open downstairs in my still to-be-tamed country home. It was a dilapidated building, with lots of rot to be replaced, lots of cracks to be repaired....
"The Fucking Plague comes and goes."
As he walked across mostly barren streets, Jim ruminated on his current situation. The corpses left behind by the plague had mostly been either cleaned up or rotted into nothing. Used to be you could hardly pass a region without...
Black wheels spin on the wet blacktop, kicking up water as she drives through darkness, Still Corners’ ‘Sad Movies’ playing on fuzzy speakers via her favorite station. It's a night when not even the moon threatens to shine behind the...
"A 'goon' on a women ice hockey team is stunned by a very unexpected visitor to the locker room"
My dad regretted not having a son. He denies it of course but I could tell by how he pushed athletics on me at a young age. He even bought me a jock strap for my fourth birthday which confused...
"Straight to Video at a Blockbuster near you"
The three of them sat watching movies and tossing popcorn back and forth. It was their usual Friday night ritual and had been for years.They were all now in their early thirties. They had gone through jobs, marriage, boyfriends, and probably some...
"Shay rediscovers herself with help from Myn and Sally"
Shauna stood outside the Bed and Breakfast, looking up and down the main street. She looked for moments frozen in time and tried to capture the memories that she should have. The street looked narrower than in her memories and...
"A Victorian scientist demonstrates his discovery of a tunnel through other dimensions."
"Wake up!" Devon was gently shaking the pale figure lying on the ground next to me as I was roused from sleep at the sound of his raised voice. He was tugging Partita's arm from beneath her curled-up body and...
“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole.”― C.G. Jung There had to be a mistake. Disappointment weighing heavily on my shoulders, I pointed...
"I just fucked a vampire"
It was a dark rainy night; the full moon peeking out occasionally from the dark ominous clouds. The horse plodded along, its rider hunched over the pommel tired, hungry, and wet. Although Rob wore a rain slicker it did nothing...
