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Zara Nicole

The Flicker In The Dark

6 min read

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

sillygoose

Traitor

1 min read

It was considered unholy. The reprimand we would receive for this would be earth sha

Rachel

For You.

2 min read

“Everything I do… I do it for YOU!” “Please, Adrian… Please, just- just put the knif

Loz

A Dog Trained To Bite

3 min read

Sophie did not like working with thieves, they were sticky fingered, conniving, backs

Ged

The Taking

1 min read

As I staggered through the rusted gate, the air was like a blade, slicing through the

Doctor Mister

Diana, There are Monsters in the House

2 min read

Night falls. Diana sits on the couch. She watches TV. She throws a piece of popcorn

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Hostage

AJ Shupe

4 min read

I sat on my kitchen floor as I stared down the barrel of the pistol. My brow furrowed in the middle as I took a deep breath. Nathan stood over me with a certain authoritative posture.

I could hear the stern pleading of the negotiator on the phone as he pushed the gun further into my forehead. Beads of sweat formed at his temple while he weighed his options. The heat of the kitchen was intense...

Drama

Thriller

Talking with the Devil

maliyah sky

1 min read

oh, talking with the devil

it’s a nightmare

he tries to manipulate me

into believing his lies

while meanwhile

i will always try to deny

his mind control

because even though

he thinks he’s influential

but really he is a joke

all of his hope

will never come to me

when i have Jesus....

Poetry

Thriller

Fire Child

Jason Booher

1 min read

Walk through the fire

The flames will only burn you if you fear the fire

The burn only hurts if your afraid of the pain

You must walk into your fears

Embrace your tears

Burn every part of yourself to the ground

What matters will still be around

Around we go running from the flames

Afraid the fire will hurt

We must become the ashes

To understand the burn

There’s beauty in new beginnings

Bu...

Poetry

Thriller

restart.

tokito phenix

1 min read

I need it off. I need to be clean. I can feel the oil and the dust against my skin. I need my skin off. It feels tight. Coated. Heavy. Sickly. Mucky.

I quickly get in the shower, and turn it on burning hot. I can barely stand the heat. But I can’t stand the dirt more.

I grab a rag and start dragging it and grating it against my skin. Quickly. And hard. I can feel my skin coming off as red marks ...

Thriller

Horror

Carrion

SamanthaSwears

1 min read

Birds circled overhead. Great big vultures, their spread wings blotted out the sun.

They hovered in the air, like a tornado of feather and wandering death.

Each step I took felt like an endless torment. The heat, a hell I’d had never know before. My skin cracked and mouth so dry I’d forgotten how to swallow.

The desert stretched on forever, ever the same no matter how far I walked. The horizon s...

Thriller

Shark attack

lillyyy

1 min read

Birds circled overhead. I was scared. More scared than I ever had been. I could still see my father's ship sinking in the distance; I don't know how or why it happened. This was supposed to be a nice family cruise, our father had convinced me to go with him but in the middle of the afternoon, something hit the ship, we don't know what it was. It was going down so fast, we didn't have any lifeboats...

Thriller

Not dead

lillyyy

2 min read

It was getting cold. A thin cloud of mist hovered over the dirt path that lead to the stone gate harbouring an old wooden shield on wich washed away letters were engraved: 'Graveyard of the forgotten souls'. It wasn't immense nor grandiose nor particularly decorative, this graveyard, simple stone graves were scattered across the valley as if the deceased had been hazardously tossed upon the cemet...

Thriller

Horror

To Ethnically cleanse them

Odania

1 min read

They just dont want them there anymore. It's pretty simple, and tragic in its own way. Westerners are just like other people in colonialism, trying to take over a place and culture that never belonged to them in the first place. ...

Adventure

Thriller

Stöfler Station

JL Abbott

2 min read

Keller and Stovich sat in the seats of their lunar rover. The pair had just returned from a trip to a satellite station on the far side of the Stöfler crater. The Stöfler Project’s intended goal was to create a habitable zone within the crater with terraforming and biochemical engineering, a joint mission between several U.N. nations with their respective space programs. It was still in its infanc...

Science fiction

Thriller

The Secrets We Keep

Lillix

1 min read

Birds cirlced over head, and i knew trouble was near. I heard tens of footsteps from behind me, i whip around and realize i’ve been caught. 𝒮𝒸𝓊𝒹.

My name is Nova Thyne, and i’ve been on the run. Two years ago, my parents died in a house fire, and i was blamed for it. You see, my parents worked for the government of our country, Skyview. I dont know exactly what they did, all i know is tha...

Thriller

Mystery