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Anthony Cicchino

Guilt And Waters

1 min read

The water sparkled in the moonlight as the duck graced its surface, transitioning fro

Jom

Motor Head

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It all started with the old cars hidden in the woods. Mangled automotive machinery la

Lydia Mae

Rosey Red Trail

2 min read

The girl walks, quickly, hugging the small bouquet of roses tightly to her chest. Her

Henry Edward Nobler

Seasonal Serial Killer

1 min read

It’s the middle of November and I'm trudging through three feet of snow because, much

Rosaline

Impression

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The wind blows my hair. I’m standing on the edge again, my torn, off-white dress bil

Jayjay

Itch

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If you are to read this poem, know this. The words I’m about to write are intended t

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Ginny

1 min read

I don’t even now how i started working here. Or even why. I don’t remember getting to this point in my life or what had caused it. “Will that be all?” I ask the fatass man in front of me behind the slanted glass. “Add some more” i rolled my eyes internally “more what?”

“Fingers”

I did as i was told and watched him hobble back over to his table. I look around the whole room; so many fucking pig...

Horror

Lost ID....?

HazelNuts

2 min read

Stephie,

Good morning! I am writing this letter to let you know that I have found your ID on the bus. It seems that you're in a hurry. Let me know when you're available so I can give it back to you. Thank you!

N. Raymonds

Karen creased her forehead when she received a letter from her email. What's more suspicious is the name. She is not Stephie, but Karen. She shrugged her shoulders, not mindin...

Horror

Thriller

Overcast Skies

Melissa Bennington

1 min read

They painted the flowers red.

It wasn’t fun and laughter like we always see it depicted.

The screams linger in the air, almost dragging you to the underworld with them.

It was messy, chaotic, and gut wrenching.

Let’s hope those clouds aren’t full of rain or they’ll do it again....

Poetry

Horror

Ocean Of Void

Licaky

3 min read

Ocean of void

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Chris ran towards the edge of the lake…

Suddenly, I wake up, sweating.

“I hate this dream. It’s such a nightmare.”

Cora turns to look at the clock on her nightstand: 3:00 AM.

She gets up, feeling the cold floor under her bare feet as she quietly makes her way downstairs. The house is silent, almost unnaturally so, as she heads to the kitchen for a glass of water.

“Again, Cora...

Horror

Thriller

Infection process

Loupa

1 min read

The infection begins with paranoia. Those affected may begin to see or hear things, have nightmares that seem real, and doubt about everything and everyone. They become increasingly insane. Physically, tics may begin to appear (pulling out hair, nails, scratching until they bleed, black veins may also appear, bloody eyes, etc.). Their moods change, their ways of being, until they lose their minds ...

Science fiction

Horror

Get Me Out

Licaky

3 min read

Javon, stop daydreaming!” his boss shouted, as he often did—especially at Javon, who always seemed to provoke him.

“Yes, boss. Sorry, boss,” Javon replied in a monotone voice, clearly uninterested. It didn’t go unnoticed.

That was Javon’s routine.

Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Come home. Eat. Sleep. Repeat.

Like a robot.

Yet he never complained.

As if he was made to work tirelessly every day.

...

Poetry

Horror

Adam’s Letter

Anthony Cicchino

1 min read

Instead of finding Adam in his room, I found a letter, neatly tucked in one of his favorite books. He usually read after school, sitting there in the bay window. The sun shone in neatly, illuminating the book and the envelope as if some divine sign. I sat and pulled the paper from the pages, smirking. Adam was always playing tricks like this on us; hiding, running, seeking to be found. The psychia...

Drama

Horror

I’m Exhausted.

Luna Moon✨🌙

1 min read

I wish you would go away.

There. I said it.

I wish you would go away,

Never come back.

I wouldn’t have an excuse to step out of class

I wouldn’t have a free invitation to rest in the nurse’s whenever

I wouldn’t have the quiet, solace, dim room I always longed for, even when you weren’t killing me.

But I wouldn’t have the pain.

The disorienting, nauseating pain

The spots I have to now learn to d...

YA fiction

Horror

Haunted

1 min read

Two full months ago, my mum and I drove into the new neighborhood. We made enough memories until it felt somewhat like our new home. Everyday I always saw the haunted house hiding at the dead-end whenever I walked to school.

It’s a overgrown, abandoned, wooden house with planks that seemed to be falling apart and windows that are boarded with old rusty nails. Something tells me to sneak in but I...

Horror

Awake

presthepoet

1 min read

My awakening was like rain harping on a metal rooftop, or a man raising his hand to the innocent. My awakening jolted me in to a whole new state of being. It transformed me in ways that I am beginning to fear were harmful. It changed me. My whole being. Flipped, in a matter of seconds. The shock of the defibrillator paddles against my chest. I’m in horror of this new self. I’m seemingly out of my ...

Poetry

Horror