09 Mar Essence
Lee was proud of his first apartment.Β He would have been more proud had he been able to share it with Alyssa, but she wasnβt ready for that yet.Β He hoped it would come in time if he was patient.Β They had been dating since...
Lee was proud of his first apartment.Β He would have been more proud had he been able to share it with Alyssa, but she wasnβt ready for that yet.Β He hoped it would come in time if he was patient.Β They had been dating since...
Randyβs eyes darted from the television news broadcast to the actual horror happening outside his window.Β The voice of the newscaster said, βMajor cities all around the globe,β as Randy watched flaming rocks rain from the sky. Β Before his eyes, they pounded cars into nothing...
Wes didnβt care that it was dark.Β He didnβt care that it was cold.Β He didnβt care that he was miles from home.Β He just cared about getting away, about clearing his head.Β He wanted to be free under the stars for a while.Β He...
Corey was at the bar getting himself another old-fashioned with an Irish stout chaser when he stopped to look towards the back of the bar.Β He saw someone on his way up from the outside smoking patio, someone that looked familiar, but he couldnβt place...
Kicking in the boarded doors to the ossuary, Clinton shined his LED spotlight into the small church.Β The bright blue light illuminated pews, a pulpit, and a giant, in disrepair crucifix above that, all draped in cobwebs.Β The skeletal remains of nearly a hundred people...
Suitcase in hand, you head to the station. There is no way in hell that you are going to forgive that lying, cheating bastard ever again. He canβt be trusted anymore, and you know it. You know his lies about working late nights. The smell of...
Part I I have never been a superstitious man,Β and can honestly say that I do not believe in vampires, ghouls, demons, or anything else that those youngsters with their vivid imaginations and smartphones like to dream up. But there is one thing that happened a very...
Dave pulled up in front of his friend Ryanβs trailer. He was glad for Ryan when he got land and got out of the trailer park but now that he had to drive out here in the dark after a cryptic text message, he decided...
Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand!Β yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. β Shakespeare, Macbeth When I promised my, shall I say, partners (who will remain anonymous as long...
Iβve been walking around for the past five and a half weeks without feeling like Iβm truly alive.Β The positive test showed up first, and the symptoms came to plague me shortly after.Β Our son was kind enough to agree to stay with us until...
βItβs 11:05 and youβre listening to WSAH 101.1 FM, Whittenbergβs classic rock for the discerning listener.Β And since itβs after 11, the powers that be say, weβre allowed to take requests.Β Soooo, if youβre so inclined give me a call at 221-867-9724β¦β * * * *...
Ted pulled his car off the paved road and onto the gravel driveway where his worn tires grumbled. βYeah, I get the feeling.β It had been a long sales day for them both.Β When Ted had started selling water purifiers, everyone was in a panic about lead...
Being a police detective means you see a lot of horrible things.Β Things you canβt unsee. They haunt your dreams at night, and the images spill over into the daytime. Waking nightmares β ever hear of those?Β I get them all the time. Pretty soon, every time you...
Every time I fall asleep, I have the same horrifying nightmare β a flashback of what we went through. In the dream, weβre back on Xangrath again.Β Everything is just the way it was, and my heart aches for reasons my sleeping mind canβt comprehend.Β My...
The couch reeked of cigarette smoke, ashes, and body odor.Β It was faded yellow like the wallpaper, its springs creaking loudly as I sat down. It smells like him, I thought to myself, surveying my late fatherβs living room and its precarious stacks of old books...
There hadnβt been a murder in Franzburg for over five years.Β Not since old man Weathers killed his wife over a Monopoly match gone sour and a marriage gone even sourer. Up until last week, that was. Now Iβve got three different files sitting on my desk,...
βLetβs go hiking!β she said. βItβll be fun, babe!β she said. Yeahβ¦yeah, itβs definitely real fuckinβ fun right nowβ¦ Iβm sorry, I gottaβ¦gotta stay calm, right? Okayβ¦ okay, let me start again.Β It was around 10:00 this morning when Selena woke me up with a thing of doughnuts...
βThe warmth is completely gone now, she took it all awayβ¦sheβs behind meβ¦sheβs angry with me. Iceβ¦everywhereβ¦I have my gun.Β Canβt let herβ¦ice everywhereβ¦soβ¦coldβ¦β Those were my brother, Christopherβs last words; hastily scrawled on the last page of his fiancee, Darlaβs personal journal that was found...
I spent my childhood in a small town.Β Long, winding single-lane roads with speed limits that topped out at seventy miles per hour were common.Β Modest-sized houses on large lots dotted the landscape, innumerable trees providing privacy and anonymity.Β One of those houses was mine.Β ...
Danny was always afraid of the dark. The kind of kid who'd slept with a nightlight until he was way too old. One whoβd never dare to step out of his room if the hallway light was off. I remember our first sleepover, when tucked away beneath...