Horror
The Last Patient of the Abandoned Mental Hospital
The first thing people told me about Blackwood Mental Hospital was simple: don't go inside after sunset. The building had stood on the outskirts of town for nearly eighty years. Its broken windows stared across the surrounding forest like empty eyes, and its crumbling walls had become the subject of countless local legends. Some claimed they heard screams coming from the upper floors at night. Others swore they had seen lights moving through rooms that had no electricity. I never believed any of those stories. As a freelance journalist, I had spent years investigating supposedly haunted places. Most turned out to be abandoned buildings filled with exaggerated rumors and overactive imaginations. Blackwood, I assumed, would be no different. That assumption led me to the biggest mistake of my life.
By Robert Redford5 months ago in Chapters
My Reflection Started Living Its Own Life
The first time I noticed something was wrong, it lasted less than a second. I was brushing my teeth before work, staring absentmindedly into the bathroom mirror. It was an ordinary morning with the same routine I had followed for years. The same apartment. The same sink. The same tired face staring back at me. Then I blinked, and my reflection blinked a fraction of a second later. It was so subtle that I almost convinced myself I had imagined it. I stood frozen for a moment, toothbrush still in my hand, staring at the mirror. Nothing happened. My reflection stared back exactly as it should. Feeling foolish, I finished getting ready and left for work.
By Robert Redford5 months ago in Chapters
The Girl Who Remembered Tomorrow
The first time it happened, sixteen-year-old Ava Thompson thought she was losing her mind. She was sitting in history class on an ordinary Monday morning when a memory suddenly surfaced in her mind. It wasn't a daydream, and it didn't feel like a prediction. It felt exactly like a memory—clear, vivid, and familiar.
By Robert Redford5 months ago in Chapters
Glass Winter | Chapter XXII. Content Warning.
Perhaps Palina deserved her affliction, perhaps she deserved to remain right where she was. They might have fled the commune, even with its killers on their tail. But how could they flee from the embodiment of sin that manifested before their eyes, coalescing out of blood and guts?
By Andrei Babanin5 months ago in Chapters
The Midnight Oil
The flames were closing in; she couldn't see her way around for all the smoke. Couldn't breathe. Why had she done this alone? Why did she always insist on doing these things alone? She tried to hold her shirt over her mouth to filter the air, but it didn’t help. She started coughing; her throat burned all the way to her lungs. Coughing didn’t help clear them; she just inhaled more as she breathed in. Her chest ached and shuddered with each ragged gasp. She crashed into a tree and held onto it as she began to fade out, and it was warm, too warm. She felt blisters forming on her hands already. She looked back at the direction she’d come from. There, in the distance, a dark shape emerged from the billowing smoke, moving quickly, running. She needed to keep going. To get away, but she couldn’t, it was too late.
By Raine Fielder5 months ago in Chapters
Alliance Against Pakistan & Turkey Underway
Alliance Against Pakistan & Turkey Underway A new wave of geopolitical developments has increased international attention after India signed an important defence and strategic cooperation agreement with Cyprus. Analysts in South Asia and the Middle East are debating whether this growing partnership represents part of a wider regional alliance aimed at balancing the influence of countries such as Pakistan and Turkey. The agreement has triggered political discussions, diplomatic reactions, and growing concern about changing power dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean and South Asia.
By Wings of Time 5 months ago in Chapters
Glass Winter | Chapter XXI. Content Warning.
If only Tematyr had two harpoons; he would have already launched the second at Sowne. As it was, two denizens lifted the chief off the ground, to his frustration, and Tem’s attackers kept him from approaching. He only had the ice chisel remaining as a weapon, and he used it now to defend himself, but not to kill. That was reserved for Sowne.
By Andrei Babanin5 months ago in Chapters
Rwanda is Nature-led Adventurous Place
This small but spectacular East African country is one of the continent’s most extraordinary wildlife destinations. Rwanda is one of only three countries in the world where travellers can see mountain gorillas in the wild.
By Ibrahim Shah 5 months ago in Chapters
The Silent Mysterious Wife
In the quiet suburbs of Chicago, where winter pressed its pale hands against frosted windows and the lake wind carried secrets through narrow streets, lived a woman named Hannah Rowe. The neighbors knew her as polite, composed, and distant. She baked lemon cakes for charity drives, sent handwritten thank-you notes, and waved gently from behind her white picket fence.
By Ibrahim Shah 5 months ago in Chapters
