Horror
Count Twice (5)
By the last Thursday of October the dark came down at six, and he woke below the bricked-over storefront with the whole of a long night in hand. He...
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- 81 reads
Count Twice (4)
By the middle of September he had an economy again. He drew small and he drew careful, sleeping men in the deep hours, a little from each and never...
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- 84 reads
Count Twice (3)
Tuesday came, and for the first time in six years lane three formed without him. He spent the day below a bricked-over storefront near the yards, in...
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- 77 reads
Count Twice (2)
What he kept of the missing time came to him later and never in order, and he never wrote any of it down. The pump getting larger. Not louder. Larger...
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- 76 reads
Count Twice (1)
The first bus came through at five fifty, and Dail Prosser was folded and swept before its headlights crossed the depot fence. He worked in a fixed...
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- 100 reads
The Way We Heard: Total Eclipse of the Heart
The song followed them out of the pub on Dean Street and stood in the doorway like a third man. "You know this song is about vampires, right?" Derek...
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Reminder (3)
The convergence happened on a Tuesday. Stuart knew it was a Tuesday because the turkey sandwich was on the counter, half-eaten, the bread going stale...
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Reminder (2)
He went back on Thursday. Not the next Thursday. The Thursday after that. Eleven days in which the taste of the champagne resurfaced three times —...
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Reminder (1)
The postcard was in the mailbox between a credit card offer and a flyer for a pizza place that had closed in November. Stuart Kemp pulled all three...
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Addition (3)
They bought the house on Vetch Lane in March. The closing took eleven days. Audrey handled most of the paperwork — the signatures, the inspections,...
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