So this is what “normal” people feel

It makes me feel angry

It makes me feel sad

It makes me feel pity for myself

What I missed out when I was tuning myself out of this world

I just wanted to feel happy

It felt like chasing a bus that departed its stop

Even though I swear it wasn’t there the whole time I was waiting

Now that I have it

All it took was a pill

I’m no longer numb...

Are you afraid to die? Well, you should be. 'Cause once you die, it's not heaven or hell. Not even sweet nothingness the non-believers assume.

Here's what will happen.

The first few moments of death are the best. The feeling of losing all your sensation one by one, it's blissful. Perfect. Your entire life flashes before your eyes ultra-condensed in a few seconds. Then there comes total blacknes...

What began as a terrible day for me turned out to change my life forever, for the better.

It was a rainy afternoon. I just got out of my office, a publishing house. I was working there as an accountant. But since I also have an affinity for writing, I was also part-time working as a novice author, writing a manuscript for a novel that, hopefully, my colleagues from the new stories department woul...

I woke up almost out of breath, with beads of sweat across my forehead. I had a horrible nightmare. Nothing out of the ordinary, just the usual swirl of dark shapes and ghostly faces and splattered blood. These dreams used to fuel the artwork of my waking hours. People call my art demented, depraved, and plainly insane. I just painted them how I saw them in my mind’s eye. But for the first time to...

Have you ever attended a funeral of someone you barely know?

Before I came here, I didn't know him, to be honest, aside from his name-which might have been fake in the first place. I barely knew what he looked like. I mean, the pictures he sent me looked

starkly different from the face behind the coffin glass.

I only came here to know the truth. I guess I wanted to affirm myself that I wasn't be...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—Halloween. Also, this day happens to be my birthday. It’s every goth kid’s dream, to be born on a Halloween or a Friday the 13th or maybe one of the other solstice or equinox days or festivities. And I am the one lucky enough to be born that day.

This year, we celebrate it for many reasons. Ever since the pandemic, it’s the first time for such a long time ...

Badly beaten and left for dead, I crawled my way out of the alley. I tried to. I couldn’t stand, my legs broken in many places. I could barely see, my eyes clouded with my own blood and almost swollen shut. I couldn’t even feel my body, I could only feel the pain. The bruises and the wounds pulsated with my weakening heartbeat.

I tried to call out for help, but my voice was barely a whisper. And ...

There was nothing but darkness around him. He feels nothing but cold. All around him, feels weightless, yet at the same time, heavy. He suddenly feels his heart beating in his chest. Then one by one, his senses awaken. He feels the hands grasping him, pulling him down. Startled, he opens his eyes. He sees a light above him. He hears the muffled music from a distance. He realizes he had been underw...

The world will burn. Thinking of this as a kid in a science class gave me mild anxiety. Our sun, just like any other star, will flare up—engulfing its surrounding system, including our planet, in its solar flames. It will either collapse into a black hole, or become a dwarf star that will leave us in unsurvivable cold and darkness. Luckily, it will be about billions of years before that happens.

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After moving into a new house, you find a hidden door to an underground passageway. Well, not you. Your dog. Like the cats he grew up with in your previous home, he digs around after he does his business—even if it’s just air over the floor. But when you looked over to clean it up, there was nothing there. After all, he was toilet trained and he would never do that even in a new environment. But h...