Part I Julian Webb had always prided himself on staying ahead of the curve. He wasn’t reckless—just forward-thinking. He kept himself in top physical condition, ...

A poorly tied slip knot, which held the body to a sandbag on the floor of the lake, succumbed to the forces of buoyancy and ...

I live in a picturesque little housing development overlooking the Avalon River, just a short drive away from Sombermorey.  It's surrounded by enough woods to ...

Ghost from the Past “You know Jake...,” there was a brief pause, “...that is your name, isn’t it? Michael didn’t do it...he didn’t kill me,” ...

I’ve seen a lot of things these last few years working security for the Twin Valley Behavioral Center.  For all its fancy wording, it is ...

Andrew wasn’t sure what his dominant emotion was as he watched the news article unfolding on CNN, but he was pretty certain it was somewhere ...

We’d been driving around Texas for a while. Clayton, Tom and I had recently graduated, so we had no destination. We were just there to ...

I was but a boy when I first discovered the grove in the wood, or, perhaps, when it discovered me. I came across the path ...

John began working in my office in late October. He started on a Thursday. He sat at the desk opposite mine, which had been empty ...

Kel and Sidney sat in near-perfect silence, taking turns to draw from a handle of vodka that they shared between them. The bottle of liquor ...

“Hey, Derek!  Come here!  Plissken’s got a new video!” From his cubicle, Sean Bannister watched as Derek rolled his chair down the aisle to Jacob’s ...

Saturday night. It seemed to take forever to come around. I can hardly bear it, my head buzzing like a kid on Christmas Eve, goosebumps ...