🏆 Top-Ranked Stories (Sorted by Average Rating)
The Road to Bastrop
Early morning mist wraps the Texas highway like a burial shroud. A red BMW emerges from the fog behind us. I hold my breath and ...
The Walking Stick
Shorty Small, a man neither short nor small, entered the coffee shop, surveyed the patrons and found who he sought. Homer LaCroix sat in a ...
The Birdcage
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, TX December 30, 2020 The mysterious artifact that doesn't exist, but everyone is still looking for, by Ben Read. Those ...
The Death Witch
Peace can be found even in times of war, thought Hershel Güterbach. Hunched before his rustic kitchen’s sole window, he placed his liver-spotted hands on ...
Home Invasion
Bert set his drink down on the end table beside his recliner and he stared towards the window. Without looking he lifted the remote and ...
A Dead Night
Business was slow at the Tavern last night. Now, that wasn’t REALLY anything new (especially with this past month). Unfortunately, that didn’t keep my nerves ...
When the Red Prophet Jumped
I need to clarify before I go any further: I DID NOT push him! I didn’t push him off the ledge. I don’t give a ...
The Black Rock Chapel Horror
“Have you come to relieve your burden unto the Lord?” asked the elder priest from behind the blind of the confession booth. Silence hung to ...
A Lonely Call
My brother Vincent died during Covid. He had choked in his bed, needing a ventilator we couldn’t afford, and I didn’t even know it until ...
Desolation at Sentinel Peak
Our plane cropped over the horizon, the endless woods meandering and covering every inch of land for miles around the forested area, effectively isolating it ...
