Growing up, I never saw a single carved or smashed pumpkin. The only smashed pumpkin I ever saw was thrown down personally. It was years ...

Have you ever done something so dumb as a kid that it scarred you for life? I don’t mean embarrassing dumb. I mean life-altering, body-mangling, ...

Part I I first noticed something different in Owen when the heat broke and the evenings cooled enough to leave the windows open. There hadn’t ...

Staring out the apartment window I saw them. This sent a tingle down my spine as I watched them go about their malicious activities. I ...

Nearly half a million children are reported missing each year in the United States. Averaged out across all of the cities, towns and the like, ...

I was twenty the first time I entered the Valley of Shadows.  It is a place that ruins what it touches.  Madness, desolation, violence, mayhem, ...

Chapter 1 Vernon Hasker sat on the porch swing which had hung on the front porch of his old and now decaying farmhouse for many ...

A veteran survivalist leaps at the chance to join a wilderness reality competition, certain he can outlast the elements and his rivals. But as the ...

I fear the hulking giant that waits just outside my home. I'm too afraid to even look up at him in his full size. He ...

For the sake of what’s left of my life, let’s call me John. I worked on the production staff of one of the largest film awards ...

Part I Tom Bellamy hadn’t heard of the place before he bought the wood. Erin called him on a Tuesday morning with one of her ...

Youth is forever entwined with adventure. The vast horizon speeds away from a young mind into infinity. A world to be discovered. Possibilities waiting to ...