Month: August 2021

I wrote this ages ago, and have never shown it to anyone. Not the prettiest story I’ve ever penned, I must say. But, some may enjoy it The inside of apartment 667 looks absolutely nothing like the rest of the units in the complex. Stoneworks from a local quarry have been imported to cover the soundproofing material coated on every […]

Eladrial looked up as the man entered the room, smiling slightly as he approached. The heavy door clanged shut behind him, the insistent strobes and rainbowed lights of the club winking out, leaving only a dull reddish glow. She looked him over; tall and lean, well muscled like a dancer, his hair surrounding his face in dark waves. Her tongue […]

“I sense a man!” Dalinda thought to herself. “I sense a real man!” This was, of course, impossible. On the space colony Iberium, that orbited Titan in the cold darkness of space, there were no men, only Vampires like Dalinda. You see, Iberium is a safe haven for Vampires. No human has ever set foot here. Only one thing could […]

Mary scowled as she flipped through the pages of the scuffed book. “Guys, this book is full of spelling mistakes. And most of the ‘potions’ chapter is just recipes for soup and chili.” Sean poured the last line of flour onto the living room carpet as straight as he could, completing the pentagram. “C’mon, Kaitlin said she only paid 50 […]

In the small bedroom of an abandoned cabin, Dana stared down at the grimy twin-sized bed; splits in the raggedy mattress showed the cotton beneath. The raven-haired girl, with wavy strands to her shoulders, folded her arms over her sleeveless purple top and tapped her boot impatiently. “I knew this wouldn’t work.”

The bark of the tree I leaned against as a wave of pain washed over me was rough and cold against my palm. As far as I knew, my life had begun there in those woods less than five minutes ago. I couldn’t remember how I had come to be there or anything else that came before. I couldn’t even […]

“Pleeeeease! I don’t want to die! You don’t have to do this! Please let me go, I swear I won’t tell anyone!” The girl tied to the chair pleaded, as tears streamed down her face, to her hooded captor, as she struggled in vain to free herself from the ropes that bound her arms to the chair. She watched in […]

“I am bored out of my mind,” he said and looked at himself in the mirror above the bar. The room was stale with smoke. “Why, what’s your problem?” he turned around and looked at a girl in a black leather jacket that was standing behind him.

Every culture has their own stories and lore: The Greeks believed in gods and goddesses, sirens and some other crazy shit, Scotland and Ireland believed in the Banshee, then the Americas believed in big foot the Char-Man, Mothman and Goat man, England believed in the Will-o’-the-wisp, dragons, elves, ogres.

In your 40 years of life you have never been camping, yesterday you decided to fix that. You took a week off from work, bought a ton of camping gear, and headed to the most remote spot of wilderness you could find. You’re so far off the grid that your cell phone doesn’t even work anymore.