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Most recently published stories in Horror.
The Secret Life of Alexia Clark
I shut the front door of the small farmhouse to escape from the sudden downpour rain, and placed the last box onto the hardwood floor. I looked around; the dark floral wallpaper dated the room. It’s true, it wasn’t the newest or best house on the block, but it was mine. I had moved from apartment to apartment since as long as I could remember, I was happy to finally have a place to call my own.
By Amy Rivers6 years ago in Horror
Satans Bargain
"Where the FUCK did I put it?" Lucifer could be found on this particularly hot day tearing apart his hotel room, screaming about, in a bit of a panic. He could have sworn he tucked his black book into his jean pocket right after the deal he had just made with a fellow named Patrick, who was willing to sacrifice anything for the success of his restaurant.
By Belle Bordeaux6 years ago in Horror
Motivation
Footsteps pounded on pavement; harsh breathing rebounded off the crumbling walls of long-abandoned buildings. Behind me, indistinguishable shouting echoed down deserted streets, the high-pitched screams of bloodlust sounding eerily like baying hounds set loose on a hunt.
By L.R. Xavier6 years ago in Horror
The Whims of the Wicked
There it was. Finally. She had truly tracked it down. After a long and arduous trek in uncharted Amazonian jungle territory, blindly following her directions in the hostile environment, their lot could finally feast their eyes on the sight before them. The Aeducan. The fabled pirate ship itself; said to have plundered countless empires throughout the ages, pillaging with no discrimination the ancient Greeks, the Persian Empire, the Romans, the Huns, and even the Egyptians during Cleopatra’s era. It seemed impossible then, but traces of the Aeducan were to be found everywhere in local legends and old wives’ tales; it still seemed impossible now, despite the evidence before them.
By Sacha Rondeau6 years ago in Horror
Write What Terrifies You. Top Story - February 2021.
I'm starting a new short story today based on the traumatic experience I got out of a year ago. It didn't take much pre-writing for me to know what I was doing. I took one look at the notes and knew it would be good, so I started writing.
By Alexa Baczak6 years ago in Horror
The Wishing Ledger
In the still of the night a person can sometimes find the greatest reflection. Choices of the past can creep back into your conscious. Forcing you to mull over the thought that maybe your life would have been different if only you did this, instead of that. Or how can I get rich so I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. All of these thoughts and more are rushing through my head as I walk quickly through the rain to get home.
By Vince Comegys-Davis6 years ago in Horror
Balancing the Book
Woodsville was the last place that James Smith imagined that he would make his home. One year ago, James lived in the city with his wife, Carol. He was a successful writer in a happy marriage. This happiness wasn't to last as a messy divorce turned his life upside down. James found himself alone and decided to move away from the big city for a quieter life in small town America.
By John Raybould6 years ago in Horror
Monster Slayer and Box Boy
A grubby child maybe 13 or 14 sits on the wooden porch of a trailer home bruised and dejected, ravenous. He has been beaten by a drunken father for eating paint off of his bedroom wall. He is skinny and always hungry though he gets three square meals a day. He eats hair, dirt, paint, and sometimes nails or other bits of metal. His bizarre appetite has left him with an untreated case of tape worms. His hair is dirty, long in patches almost hiding the other patches, patches of raw scalp where the hair has been pulled from. He picks up a stick and begins to walk around the ugly desert that is his back yard. I say an ugly desert because this is not a desert of beautiful saguaro cactus, flitting wrens, and magical sunsets, instead it is a desert of illegal dumping, trailer meth labs, and acres of rusting junk some his fathers some not. The boy picks a few pieces of the remaining, sun faded paint, from the rickety splintered porch railing he stuffs them greedily into his mouth then picks up his stick and plods into the desert. In his mind’s eye he sees himself freed from the trappings of human hood. Wandering an alien landscape scorched and hateful. impossibly tall and gauntly thin where hands once were now dirty augmentations. There is a crude flame thrower on one stump and a forked spear on the other. Something moves a two headed Gila monster or maybe just a one headed rabbit. Lightning fast he stabs it, cremates it and wolfs it down, one back leg still kicking. Back on his ugly piece of earth, he spies a large brown pile something new and he begins to make his way toward it.
By Watson Brown6 years ago in Horror
Stained
A tough shift at work, too hot a day to enjoy, and not enough money in the bank. A normal day. But what wasn’t normal was this aching feeling in Danny’s belly. As he steps out of the grocery store’s front entrance, change of clothes in his bag, something gnaws at the lining of his stomach. He figures it’s just the heat getting to him, radiating off the asphalt and metal of the city’s bones and veins.
By Delgado Corcoran6 years ago in Horror
The Shadow Man
She sat upright in her hospital bed, avoiding death once again, Alice attempted to take her own life that night with a handful of pills and a bottle of rum, she decided it was not her time and told her mother what she had done and was rushed to the hospital that night. The man of the shadows stood at the end of her bed; he has no face, but she could feel his cold empty stare upon her. Alice rang for the nurse but by the time she arrived, the man in the shadows was gone. The nurse annoyed for being taken away from her task tapped her foot at Alice's bedside checking her vitals and told her to go back to sleep. Alice laid her head back down determined it was effect from what she had done earlier that day, but deep down she know that was a lie.
By Nicole Brooker 6 years ago in Horror
