13 Feb I Am Not a Saint
Iβve had an effect on people ever since I was a child. I canβt explain it and itβs driven me to the brink of insanity. I never asked or prayed for it. In fact, I donβt even know if I believe in God. But the...
Iβve had an effect on people ever since I was a child. I canβt explain it and itβs driven me to the brink of insanity. I never asked or prayed for it. In fact, I donβt even know if I believe in God. But the...
He stood in front of the huge black Edwardian door awaiting an answer. The frosty morning air crept closer into his bones sending a shiver down his spine. Heβd regretted that Christmas hair cut the minute the clippers touched his neck. His head now felt...
As Paul approached the town the signal for his car radio began to fail.Β It seemed to sum everything up in a nutshell.Β Even national radio couldn't make it out to these coastal backwoods.Β Though the roads round this way were little more than single-carriage...
I pulled into the bar parking lot and stopped the car. I sat there for a moment, letting the engine idle as I thought about what I was doing. I knew my wife and kids were at home waiting for me, but I just couldnβt...
Last week, something happened in my house. Something I couldnβt believe and still am having a hard time believing. I donβt have an overactive imagination, and I donβt scare easy. I donβt believe in ghosts, aliens, the paranormal, and all the rest of the horror...
I gently lowered the canoe into the calm water. Matt stood behind me, clutching the two oars, anxious to start fishing. Ripples rose to life and expanded out into the vast lake, quiet trumpets that announced our entry into the cool blue realm. The sun crept...
I went camping a few weeks ago. I wanted to be alone after my recent break-up and thought some quiet time with nature would help clear my head. I picked a mountain at random in New Hampshire. Iβm not going to tell you which one....
Part One Our leaders are serving a malevolent entity in a desperate attempt to guarantee the survival of our species. They have been secretly paying tithe to it with the blood of our youth, the blood of our warriors. This sadistic ritual has been occurring since the...
Do you know what a mentalist is, by any chance? By definition, itβs someone with amazing observational skills who uses them to figure things out about people. Kind of like reading their mind. It doesnβt sound too interesting to watch, but youβd be surprised! My Dad...
My life was fairly simple. I never really asked for much, nor did I expect all that much either. I was freelancing as a videographer, and had a steady group of repeat customers. Mostly small businesses who wanted me to help them put together ads,...
I donβt know why Iβve not been fully affected the same way my wife and child have. I donβt know why I can still remember, but Iβm going to use what little time I have left to warn other people. My wife and I have only...
Iβm used to late nights. My job means a lot to me, so obviously, I want to keep it and that means putting my all into it when things get busy. If that means I get home at 9 or 10, then thatβs fine. Success...
In my youth, I had a wild streak. I was a teenager during the years when heavy metal began to get old. The group I ran with was fine with the classics, but they wanted something a little more extreme. We wanted something wild, raw...
He was called βOld Man McConnell,β but Jarrod McConnell never considered himself old; he was barely over sixty, for Peteβs sake.Β But then again, he never considered himself rude, unpleasant, smelly, or a social outcast, but ask anyone else in Lakota City if he was,...
I donβt know exactly how this story started. It was already in motion well before I became aware of it. My involvement in it began with Christian and Philip: Christian, who was always late, and Philip, who was always early. Those two were part of our...
Paul nearly jumped out of his skin when he realized that his little sister was standing right next to him. He was focused like a laser, writing the next horror short that the Dark Shadows Rising podcast was demanding. The closer the deadline loomed, the...
It started out like any other work day. I had houses to sell and people who wanted to buy them. Honestly, Iβve always found being a realtor embarrassingly easy. People seek you out and ask you to sell them incredibly high-ticket items. Iβve done other...
βLook, Daddy! An airplane!β my son Sedrek pointed up at the sky at the brilliant metallic dot cutting a white line across the clear blue sky. This was something of a family tradition. When I saw airplanes as a little boy, I had to point them...
My name is Russell Green. At dawn on the morning of June 14 of this year I set off in a rented boat to a spot eleven miles north of Oymur on Russiaβs Lake Baikal. My destination was informally called the Pit of Night. Three...
The circumstances in which we found Ms. Kerry were unpleasant. She had been dead for just over a week by the time we were called out, though how much of the smell came from her decomposing body and how much was from the house she had...