“The year is nineteen-ninety-nine.” That sentence brings me back to my senior kindergarten class when I was five years old, where we used to read ...
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“Is it true? Did every cop in the precinct call in sick tonight?” I asked my friend who lives across the street from the police ...
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A few days ago I got a text message from an unknown number reading “I got your proof.” I stared at the words for a ...
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Late one night, I found myself driving down what seemed like an endless stretch of road. I was on my way back from a week-long ...
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It was late evening. The sun was dipping in the sky, but the dark had not claimed the night just yet. Lynsey did not agree ...
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Tom Strand had to pee. Sixty-four ounces of gas station root beer sloshed in his gut, disrupting the constant thoughts of his mother. The problem ...
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I bought an older house, with no basement.  All I thought at the time was that I would own my own place, at long last; ...
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I’ve been a widower for exactly six years now. I was blissfully married to a woman named Ava for fifteen amazing years. We didn’t have ...
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You think good and evil don’t exist? That ain’t true. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it firsthand. I’ve even seen the Devil. Our family was ...
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I had just moved to my current flat in Raynes Park, Southwest London, and was still fairly unfamiliar with the area. Now my current bosses ...
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Darkness coats nearly the entire room, a comforting blanket of emptiness in which only a small nightlight in the shape of a tacky, golden elephant ...
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Some nights are worse than others. Some nights, I wake up alone in the dark with a cold chill settling upon me, seeping into my ...
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