Horror

Devil Lake
It was going to happen today thought Sheriff Owen. Finally after so much research and so much effort that darn Devil Lake was going to be drained. It had taken so many lives but Jeffrey Owen was a reasonable man he really did not expect to find the Devil sitting at the bottom of the lake, What he did expect to find were the bones of the missing and an answer as to why people died in Devil Lake. That was about all he could hope for and then fill up the lake so that no one would have to worry about anyone losing their lives ever again.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Fiction
Trouble on the Water. Third Place in Foggy Waters Challenge. Top Story - October 2021.
Cold spray crashed against the windows of the small fishing boat as she pierced the crest of a wave and then pitched down into the trough. Time and time again the unforgiving cycle had gone on battering the boat and soaking the three-man crew to the skin.
By Thea Young 4 years ago in Fiction
The Trip of a Lifetime. Top Story - October 2021.
It’s almost Halloween and the haunting memories from that night five years ago are back again. Every year since that trip, around this time, the nightmares caused by that night return and transport me back in time. I know in my heart that the things I saw on that day were not real and just tricks played on my mind by the incredibly well-planned set-up of the party and whatever the hell it was that Tony dropped in our drinks.
By Gerald Holmes4 years ago in Fiction
The Potter's Field
Eduardo chips at the soil with the tip of his broken shovel. The end of it is jagged, and there is no certain angle to strike with in order to break into the snow-dusted earth. His hands are cracked painfully from the harsh winter wind, and even though he knows working harder might warm him up he hesitates, as usual, to do so. Even more today, because it isn’t like the movies, where he’d need to paint tally marks onto his cell walls to keep track of time, even though he wishes it were. He wishes the answer to his anxiety was as simple as an untallied wall, but he knows exactly what day it is. It’s the date some doctor scratched aggressively with an almost dead pen onto the blank space beneath a picture of white noise that Eduardo’s girl insisted was his baby. The etched in due date that’s been seared into his memory just as harshly as it was written on that photo.
By Sammi LaBue4 years ago in Fiction
ATSF 666
“She had a kind of grace, even as a small child, and also a kind of anguish. She brought herself here and threw herself down. In her letter she said there was a beauty here, and an incongruity. I see that.”
By C S Hughes4 years ago in Fiction
Campfire Tales
“Gather around the fire everyone” exclaimed Kat. All the camp kids gathered around with sticks in hand ready for the counselor Kat to give them marshmallows. The excitement of little chatter fills the air.
By VC. Wolfe4 years ago in Fiction
Baby Please Don't Go
It was the first trip they had taken together since Jack had left for Afghanistan. During his tours, Emmy remained faithful to him, as she’d promised. She was less than pleased when he told her he’d enlisted because they were just beginning to enjoy life as a couple. She had finished her year-long college course in Medical Reception and Jack had breezed through his computer tech training and apprenticeship.
By Marie McGrath4 years ago in Fiction
The Tooth Fairy
One “MOMMY!” Jessickha screamed. Jessickha’s mother rushed into the room to find Jesickha huddled in the corner furthest from her closet. She had tears and snot streaking her face. Her eyes were horror-struck, stuck wide open and staring at the deep darkness of her closet. Jessickha’s mother rushed across the room and cradled her daughter, “What is it? What’s wrong!?”
By Nathan Charles4 years ago in Fiction
The Caretaker
Trigger Warning: Suicide and Depression Silence felt like a heavy breath, yet to be released. It was suffocating. More devastatingly, it sucked the life out of the room, kept it captive. It made its victims on edge and squirmy, just waiting—waiting for it to end, to finally exhale…But once the silence began, it never ended.
By Liv4 years ago in Fiction
Aquatic Dreams
“I refuse to go near that water! It's a pool of bloody madness, it is. You're all just so ignorant to something a tad bloody mysterious... Or you don't like the reality I present ya with. Good-day to you all, I've said what can be said."
By Oscar Richard4 years ago in Fiction
The Sound Water Makes
There was the drip, drip, drip. Always, always—drip, drip, drip. The pipes were fine. Well, mostly. It was an old cabin her grandfather had built. He’d kept it in good shape until his death five years before. It sat by a small, secluded lake in the middle of the woods.
By Lauren Triola4 years ago in Fiction
Brave Until the Darkness Pt. 1
Brynn Cabot was way over her head. It was only two years ago when she thought she was simply buying drugs from a normal drug dealer. Today, she’s a slave to a monstrous and harsh creature in human flesh. Her life now depended on her efforts to please her master, and her secret had to be maintained if she wanted her friends and family to be safe. On the outside, Brynn seemed to be a helpless, lost, and broken person in search of something that would fill a void within. But, under that poorly painted picture was a girl trapped and alone for the rest of her tormented life.
By Autumn Nicole4 years ago in Fiction