Clouds of dust plumed up as sheets of residue fell off the windowsills. Long abandoned, the house shuddered under the force of the ...

We are building a bridge...a new path to a new town. This area was recently bought by a big company and they want to develop a new ...

Never leave a container of mint balls next to a witch's cauldron. But the trick to this is, what exactly is a witch? When I first came ...

The men are afraid to ask you but “Do you not crave blood sir” ? Listen well lieutenant, I take no pleasure in feeding. All things ...

Maybe it was the length of time I’ve spent in the silence of space, but music has meant a lot to me these last 5 years. I’d gotten ...

Once, I had read how the mushrooms we see in the forest are not individual organisms, but part of a much larger whole that exists underground ...

Her hands trembled as she took the reigns, knowing what it meant to leave. She tapped Lancelot with her heel and he left the open door ...

“I’ll have you know ‘goblins,’ as you unenlightened savages call us, have been allowed to be employed and mingle in daylight hours ...

Sunlight poured in through the grimy hotel window, rousing me from my slumber. I yawned and consulted the bedside alarm clock, which ...

Alice's life changes on a Tuesday morning. The coffee shop she works at, close to campus, is crowded with professors and students getting ...

The children heard the sudden gritty rubbery traction sound of approaching tyres and leapt off the narrow woodland path with only a ...

I took my sharpie and I wrote all over his car. I couldn’t believe that

My partner and I pulled up outside the scene of the crime, annoyed to find the news crew had already beaten us there. It was the third ...

I took two weeks off of work and told everyone I was going to Mexico with my parents. The truth was that I was going to sit in my apartment ...

Mitch and Mindy leapt up, terrified what lay beneath. They twirled around, examined the human remains occupying their chairs and, in ...

Where am I going to find a box of grits at this hour? It’s an unconventional ingredient, as far as magical components go, but Southern ...

It was a really hot day to be in the onion fields. The heat made the aroma of the onions strong and pungent. The citizens residing ...

The boy suddenly woke up on the shores of a beach. Bitter cold and the familiar stench of coastal decay overtook him. The deafening ...

Finally after 3 years of searching, I had found my little sister. There was only one problem, directly on top of the cage that she ...

The giant’s body lay face down in what this morning had been Halbert Haversham’s home, stables, and small orchard. The giants left ...

Humpty Dumpty was tired. He was tired of being glued over and over again...why did he had such a thin and fragile shell? He wanted ...

The doll continued sewing in the dark corner, greeting the needle spiders as they clattered across the wooden shelf. Many avoided her ...

He brought his hands together in glee, his eyes gleaming. He received looks as if he had lost his mind, but that just increased his ...

I ran through the hallways trying to get to class. It seemed like one of those scenes in a movie where the main character is comically ...

Grind the beans until they turn as smooth as sand in an hourglass. Pull the lever until the water streams down in an iridescent cascade ...

He looked at the night sky and imagined other worlds. Alternative universes where he was happier, wealthier and maybe a couple of inches ...

It had been eleven months to the day since the storms first began. Most cities were but flattened piles of crumbling brick and rotting ...

I started out as any normal child. I’d pass the days away playing silly childish games, like duck-duck goose or tag with the neighborhood ...

Once a year we traveled to the same camping spot. It was a place called Camp Wanakalagooga. Wide open space in the middle of nowhere ...