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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

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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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Inked

Barry Stout

1 min read

Mari looked at Rosie’s bare back as she changed her shirt. This was not the first time she had seen her without a shirt but this was the first time seeing the tatoo there. It was on her shoulder blades but looked off for some reason....

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Horror

Draft

Tessa🦋

1 min read

Birds circled overhead

Looking down I see in dread

A man with a missing head

Gruesome discovery fright instead

Wondering how this nightmare happened

Wondering the circumstances am now saddened

Thinking and wondering nights evil

Careless wandering ends upheaval...

Horror

Waiting

Jayjay

1 min read

Birds circled over head and it was then I knew I was in trouble.

Days on end in the searing heat, I tried my best to survive, but I could feel my body eating itself.

I could feel my mind tricking itself, seeing oasises that weren’t there.

And when I first glimpsed the vultures I knew I was in trouble.

They were waiting for their meal and their meal was me....

Thriller

Horror

Pearly White Bones

Georgia Marin

1 min read

Unkempt graves, with numerous varieties of ivy and vine encroaching onto the weathered stone. The figure slowly crept towards the gravesite, something unnatural about its movements. Once it had reached on particularly old grave, it kneeled down, knees to dirt. Laying its cold hands over the barren dirt, it began to dig, and it didn’t stop until it had reached its goal. It carefully selected a coll...

Horror

What You Wish For

JL Abbott

6 min read

The first night I used DelphEye, it showed my death by heart failure. I had had trouble falling asleep at first, as the putty-like glob was uncomfortable and made my eyebrows itch. But once I knocked out, it worked as advertised. The dream was from a strange perspective. Usually I dream in the first person, just like seeing through my eyes, but I was outside my body this time. Looking at my frail ...

Horror

Science fiction

Becoming Secrets

Dede

3 min read

Smirking.

You relish in the knowledge of the iniment downfall of the Honest.

So close now… victory’s tang plates your cracked lips.

Delicious.

Decades of lies are finally tying themselves into a single sordid truth.

Tantalising, those serpents of deceive are returning to their nest.

Historic.

Yes, this is your moment.

Your moment to reflect with the glints of ice, tainted crimson b...

Horror

Siren‘s Stage

Cats against Schrödinger

1 min read

I often felt guilty after singing. The feeling took me, and I’d sway with the rolling tides, ebbing to tunes played with the sounds of the sea and sky.

Out in the horizon, I’d see them, though. A poor crew of men—hopefully just men anyways. I mean, I felt bad enough when they were just men, and it’s not like I wanted the ships to wreck.

Some might have said I had a problem. That I heard sounds t...

Fantasy

Horror

The Hymn of Lost Desire

S.D. Carrick

1 min read

Lo! ‘Neath the gibbous moon’s unhallowed glow,

Where specters wail upon the midnight’s air,

A wretched soul in tempest wonders slow,

With hollowed eyes and tangled blood-clad hair.

Betwixt yon yew, where ashen gravestones weep,

The damp earth groans ‘neath footsteps soft yet dire;

A voice unholy slithers from the deep,

A whispered dirge, the hymn of lost desire.

“What wretched fate hath summon...

Poetry

Horror

Walk Forward

J.L.Carlahan

1 min read

“Aren’t the trees pretty? They are so tall and mesmerizing. The flowers are pretty too, but don’t touch them, they don’t like it, they only want to be admired. Be careful, make sure you stay on the path, its dangerous to stray from it. Make sure you always walk forwards, there’s nothing behind you that isn’t in-front of you. Never look behind you, its all the same, flowers and trees, and the long ...

Horror

Thriller

The Mall

Mel L

2 min read

A/N: I was going to make this longer and I had ideas for how it connected to the prompt but then I got bored whoops lol.

The mall seemed unnatural, a giant obtrusive fortress in an otherwise quaint landscape of small houses and quiet people. Or maybe it was more fitting to say it was a relic of a time when the town could boast such importance. Despite the slow erosion of the building—the cracks i...

Horror