Horror

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The Tobacco Barn (Part 2)

The cold hit him like a fist. Clay made it twenty steps from the barn before his hip seized, the pain so sudden and total that he dropped to his...
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The Tobacco Barn (Part 1)

The barn was older than the farmhouse. Older than the county records, if you believed the clerk at the Register of Deeds, who'd searched back to 1847...
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The Quality Circle (Part 2)

Wade found her in the parking lot after second shift, leaning against her driver's side door like he belonged there. The security lights made his...
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The Quality Circle (Part 1)

The rating terminals glowed in the break room like confession booths, blue-white screens waiting for judgment. Marlene Vickers had passed them a...
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Lily (Chapter Six)

Eli followed Keeper through the night. The woods seemed to shift around them. He had lived in these hills his whole life, but he didn't recognize...

The Memory Eaters

Prologue The last thing Margaret Henley remembered correctly was the taste of copper pennies. She stood in her kitchen at 3:47 AM, blood running from...

Brutal Bites: Cold Hearted

Samy’s inspired imagination, courage, and hope came from his father. He was the soul flame that kept him from freezing. Samy’s mother was the one who...

INCHES.

In our home, we wait until something is on its last legs before it is repaired or a new one is bought. The large glass in our back door was cracked,...
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Story of the week

The Second Shadow

I At first, he thought it was nothing more than the winter light playing tricks. A low sun, long evenings, angles that made ordinary things look...
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Katie Fox.

We have all been out and about, minding our own business. Remember that girl on the bus? She had her throat cut; she didn’t even know the evil man...