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The Diner Where Time Stands Still
“Hello, don't panic, you’re dead.” said the voice. Keating looked up from the laminated menu he'd been staring at for who knows how long, its printed writing obscured by the strip-lighting bouncing off its scratched plastic covering.
By Jamie Jackson6 years ago in Horror
Pancakes in Purgatory
Room 24 was hell. At least it felt like it because of the broken air conditioner. It was the worst possible time for the unit to break considering the 100-degree temperature outside and the nonexistent breeze. Nevertheless, it chugged away emitting an obnoxious clanging every ten minutes. Ten minutes had passed since the last time the air conditioner had attempted to sputter to life. This time when the loose bolts rattled together the resulting clang awoke the occupant of the bed in Room 24, Brooke.
By SharonSharpe6 years ago in Horror
Chad the Zombie
The plaque that had gripped the world and turning millions into zombies started out as a military weapon. Some government, no one knows which, was using a parasitic fungus to use to control enemy combatants. No one knew the fungus would kill its victims and bring them back as voracious, hungry, angry zombies. The government, no one knows which one as stated before, did not test the fungus it created on live animals but instead tested it on humans and the plaque quickly, within months had taken over the world.
By Ferrari King6 years ago in Horror
The Jogger
This is the true story of Jim Fulcom and a jogger he encountered. Jim was a big man around six foot six and 329 lbs, and suffered greatly from Tall Man’s Syndrome. He enjoyed bullying his way through life and was at one time a police officer. He was kicked off the force for police brutality and being insubordinate to his superiors in addition to treating his coworkers badly. Jim believed he had a right to do what he wanted and used his large size to get his way. He once bullied a little old man out of a Christmas tree. Jim knocked down and pushed the man and laughed while the old man’s grandson looked on. Jim owned a dog, a large golden retriever whom he allowed to run freely although state law required a leash. The dogs’ name was Snaps who had a brown coat and a white diamond shaped spot on top of his head. Snaps was not a bad dog, but Jim was not a good man so he rarely fed Snaps. Jim was also a bully to his wife Veronica. Veronica was a short angry woman who liked to dress as trashy as she could. She cussed out the children in the neighborhood but generally would not say anything to the adults. She enjoyed heating up chocolate candy in her microwave every morning, which was one of her guilty pleasures. . She made sure no one else in the house used that microwave first, not even her two children. Veronica did, however; like to cause problems for men by trying to get her husband to attack them. One day walking out of a grocery store and bag boy was walking back in with a few carts and Veronica looked at her husband then looked at him and said, “Hey baby.” He was not more than 17. To this Jim said angrily to the bagboy, “Stop looking at my wife.” The bag boy did not have the opportunity to actually look at Veronica before Jim made his statement since he was too busy with the carts. Also the bag boy the reader should know is the grandson of the old man that was at one time bullied out of a Christmas tree. Veronica was only brave when her husband was around. In May of the year our story will take place, she and her husband were at the Marina on their boat. When Jim had gotten his car to the docks to take the boat out of the water someone was putting their boat in the water. The law stated the person unloading their boat into the water has right of way and the person taking their boat out had to wait. Veronica being safe on her boat yelled profanities at the man but Jim did not dare do anything since this man was of equal height but did not suffer from Tall Man’s Syndrome. The man was dressed in blue jean shorts and a white T-shirt. The man told Jim to control his wife or prepare for a beating and told him of the law. Jim quickly got Veronica to hush up. Jim would not dare antagonize a man his height. The man continued to look at Jim with his cold penetrating eyes since he was the type of man that would rather fight a man of equal or greater height than himself unlike Jim who was a true coward.
By Ferrari King6 years ago in Horror
Ghost stories from an Empath
The story goes that a well to do farmer in Libby Montana murdered his entire family and himself except for his mother. His mother had been in town buying supplies, and when she returned she found her son hanging by a rope in the mudroom, his wife slumped over the kitchen sink with a bullet to her head and the three children in the upstairs bedroom tucked nicely in their beds with bullet holes right smack in the center of their heads. Obviously, proper authorities were called, and the family was buried on the property.
By Cassandra Dhaenens6 years ago in Horror
Black Coffee
I opened the door, and the little bell above rang loudly and the man at the breakfast bar turned his head slightly while stooped over his steaming hot coffee. The waitress in her baby blue diner dress and white apron waved in my general direction and said to me “Just sit anywhere hon.” Her eyes showing her disdain that she had yet another customer at 3:30 am and wouldn’t be bothered to hide it. She pursed her lips and curtly asked me “What’ll be?” as I climbed onto the seat at the far end of the breakfast bar.
By Nicole Gilbert6 years ago in Horror
The Night Owl
The door of Stan’s 24 Hour Diner whooshed open and then sucked back in against its casing. Cara quit bitching to Keith, the chef, and hurried out to greet the customer. She had an inkling who it was and she was right. The night owl. Four nights in a row now. She watched him lower his hood and cross the diner and sit in a booth by the window. She grabbed a menu from the bar.
By Yanto Adda6 years ago in Horror
Blood of The Wolf Vol 4
Michael’s eyes fluttered open, feeling like he had just awoken from a long dream. He would have thought it was a dream if it were not for all the memories of everything he had learned, that, and the fact that when he ran his tongue across his teeth he felt fangs where his canines used to be. He was lying in a hospital bed and he had straps holding down his arms and legs. When he looked around the room to see if there was anyone else with him he saw his mother asleep in the recliner next to his bed.
By Jeremy Hanson6 years ago in Horror
