Horror

Short Stories Part Four.

When I was age three, we lived in a small bedsit, the building was three story high. One day there was a fire. We lived on the second floor. On the...
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Rental (Part 2 of 2)

I move briskly, like I’m late for the Stratford bus, but that can’t be where I’m going. I recognize the land around me. These are the fields on the...
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Rental (Part 1 of 2)

Back to the Future plays silently on a wall-mounted TV. It’s the scene where Marty promises to take Jenn out in his Dad’s truck. I don’t need the...
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Love Thy Neighbour.

Ukraine has been in the news for years now, at one point it was headline news every day, like that was the only war on in the world. There were lots...
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In This House IV: Final Chapter

It’s funny, really, the fight or flight response. Once it is triggered and the adrenaline is dumped into the bloodstream in a last ditch effort to...
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In This House III

In the darkness, she dreamt. She saw the village in which she lived. Elm trees, which lined the roadside of her culdesac, shed their leaves, floating...
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Lindy (Part 1)

Parked crookedly, his battered Ford obstructs the country lane outside my cottage. Should a tractor or cattle truck come along, we shall have...
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The Haunted Coffee Machine

A short ghost story (with apologies to Margery lawrence)
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In This House II

She needn’t search for a bump on her head this time. The aching pain let it be known. In the coolness of the room, she could feel a trickle of warm...
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In This House

It was the wind outside which finally roused her. If not for the storm, cascading sidewards in howling waves, she’d have remained in slumber. Perhaps...