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Motor Head

1 min read

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

1 min read

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

Zara Nicole

The Flicker In The Dark

6 min read

Jordan had always hated the flickering streetlight outside their house. It buzzed lik

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Old Cars

Expresso1241

1 min read

The old cars in the woods want loved by collector however each one of them died and they’re all kind of possessed by them missing them like a car

You can hear the haunting screams of each of them in an accident

On the summers winters haunting night at a full moon, they come alive each try to find another driver in the seat

To reenact the accidents to attack those who caused the accidents

They...

Horror

Bouncing, Still

Athena Boveri

4 min read

The little girl was bouncing higher and higher and higher. Her carefully plaited braids were flipping around with the beat. Her face was enveloped by a gapped toothed smile.

Her light blue eyes squinted with glee at every bounce. Her fingertips barely missed the top of the castle by a whisp.

On every bounce her blue pettycoat flew up towards her face. She giggled as she tried to pat it down. It...

Horror

The Ghost

Christina Erni

1 min read

**_A ghost is catching in the Limbo forevermore

A ghost is catching, oh so fast,

It runs and jumps, it doesn’t last!

It hides behind the big, tall door,

And stays in Limbo evermore.

I try to tag it, touch its hand,

But whoosh! It slips just like the sand.

It laughs so soft, it sings so low,

I chase and chase, but where’d it go?

The moon is watching, big and round,

The stars are giggling with no...

Poetry

Horror

Lurk

MusefulHeart🫀

1 min read

Dont you see it?

Am i going crazy?

Am I going insane?

Over there

They lurk

The shoadows their home

A creeping obsession for I am their own

The watch with beady eyes

And a menacing growl

Prowl and pounce

Ready to fight

Ready to kill

I think I may be insane

For you dont see them lurk

But surely you must

They stand over there

I may need some help

My brain may be broken

I know they arnt there

They jus...

Poetry

Horror

Revelation (based on a roleplay,,)

KC/Luz !!

1 min read

The two young men slowly stepped back on what they found. Watching the VHS tapes play on the tv. For a while, they didn’t know what was in the strange costume that chased them, the costume very similar to the suit used in the 1954 Godzilla film…but they found out.

There was a man.

But all trace was gone.

One of the young men, Toya Aoyagi, covered his mouth in shock and disgust. “God…” he mumb...

Horror

Thriller

The Castle In The Sky (part One)

DogDay

1 min read

The castle in the sky is a old legend from long ago about a castle that floated up to the sky. Hi, I’m Dogday, me and my friends are trying to find the castle in the sky. I don’t think it’s true but it might be.

‘Rattle rattle’ the plane is shaking severely “DogDay?” Hoppy asks “Yes?” “Why is the plane heading towards something in the sky?” I look at hoppy and then run to the cockpit. There it wa...

Horror

Mystery

Soft Eyes

@Lavinxea

3 min read

Time holds its breath.

Even as the knife sinks into flesh again and again, those hazel eyes remain soft. They shouldn’t be. Not on someone like him. Not on someone who kills with the ease of drawing breath. But they are—a breathtaking shade of translucent brown, like autumn leaves set ablaze by the evening sun, like rich soil after the rain. A warmth that belongs in poetry, not in the gaze of a ...

Thriller

Horror

Somewhere Out In The Woods

SamanthaSwears

3 min read

It all started with the old cars hidden in the woods.

Frankie had told us about them. Buried deep in the forest, piles of rust covered classics. Miles from the main road. Theo and I guessed it was just an old junkyard. But Frankie swore it was an actual manufacturing factory. And the building itself was out there somewhere.

That’s what made us finally agree to go. The thought of an untouched car f...

Thriller

Horror

Value Of An Artist

Anthony Cicchino

1 min read

I held the totem in my hand and wondered, first of all, who made the wooden structure. So intricately carved, it made me think of hours of hard work like something you’d see in Italy from the great masters. Yet, this was on the forest floor in an outskirt of Alabama; were there Michelangelo’s here, too?

Then I herd the scurry from behind me, and turned to see a man on all fours. He crawled towar...

Mystery

Horror

The Rusted

Taylor Amerson

1 min read

The hulking mounds of rust which had stood for centuries loomed in the now-overgrown landscape, becoming the bones of the forest where none dared to tread. Someone had moved them there eons ago before they had fallen to moldering ruin, and saved their antecedents the trouble. Thousands of automobiles lay among the moss and the mold in those woods, barely perceivable now under the growth, but still...

Horror