We trekked out into the middle of this desert to find solitude.  To “achieve greater introspective insight than we could have ever achieved in the ...

The scarecrow stands around twelve feet tall. A lone, misshapen sentinel in the midst of a dark field, beneath the blood of a clotted red ...

The Tawny Finger Trap: The Cat Never run away from an apex predator; running can trigger an animal’s killer instincts. Terrible decisions consumed Akum’s thoughts.  ...

My family cottage in rural Maine has remained unvisited for eight years. We used to use it about every summer for two to three weeks ...

He felt old and tired.  That was all he knew about himself.  He rose from his bed and washed his face while he waited for ...

Growing up with asthma was always a little challenging, but having a dad that smoked two packs a day made it even harder. Mom would ...

Unconsciously, I must have seen it from the start–that run down two-story house, with its paint-peeled porch that lorded over an equally neglected lawn. The ...

‘Down Here’. Those were the words my friend whispered to me that night, and though a year has passed, they still fester in my mind, ...

This story was originally featured on James Colton's official website, and has been reprinted here with his kind permission. You can see the original post here, ...

When the blood moon rises, the beasts of the forest will gather. They will scream when he breaks the barrier from his world to ours; ...

I saw something back in 1990 that has haunted me ever since. We were a Boy Scout troop of sixteen boys between the ages of ...

Evidence #005678 and #073812 in cases #MPD-5609 and #MPD-6491 respectively for the Medford Police Department. The following interviews were transcribed shortly after the death of ...