Just What You Do
They really needed to get the lighting fixed in here. Only the dull red glow of the exit sign. Not that it mattered; I could climb these stairs in my sleep. Which step creaked. Just where to reach for the bar and shove open the door. My foot didn't...
Learning to Love the Void
Learning to love the void By ironsnake345 Submission for a weekly writing prompt by Writer's Crossing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --\> Lol yeah, things have been going pretty great since I moved in....
A Way Out
The walls were dirty, and it smelled of puke. The walls were always dirty. Even though the grumpy dog who was cleaning the floors came through every day. He always came during the afternoon nap time. He wiped the linoleum with smelly chlorine bleach,...
A Lay in the Park
A Lay in the Park Nicholas stood on the top most tier of the playscape pretending to captain his ship as several of his friends ran about him miming the hoisting of sails. The park about him was a sea, and the peoples drifting through on their...
The Deadliest Sin (By Avoozl)
" **The Deadliest Sin"** **by Terry Echoes** 1 Jamie LeBrau hadn't been to church since he was 15. Social studies was far from being his favorite class, and his teacher, Mrs. Wimbledon, a middle-aged woman with Marge Simpson hair, was a huge fan of...
the journey
Like it was common in the wolf tribe, in the months before the coming-of-age ceremony, Torim was sent on a spirit journey. Clothed in nothing but his natural fur and equipped with nothing but his own fangs, he had been sent into the wilderness, to...
A Pickle...
It was a hot night, insects buzzing outside the open window against the screen. There was no breeze to kiss the heat away, just more god forsaken heat. In a tiny house a man lay in his bed, wearing nothing but a set of boxers and blankets kicked to...
Long Live the Witch (By Avoozl)
“ **Long Live the Witch"** **By Terry Echoes** The wind died down, as if it, too, was listening to Hannah's impassioned words. “This is an old woman who needs our help! Sometimes the biggest danger someone can face isn't horrific and sudden...
Dragoman
I woke up in a white room groggy. My head hurts so badly. And my body felt it was on fire. I move but couldn't. Realizing I have a tube up my nose and that I'm strapped down in a hospital type bed by my wrist and ankles. I shout out wanting to get the...
The Scientific Inquirer, Article 1
_The Scientific Inquirer_ **Revolutionary Treatment for Rodents Found?** Published: September 17th, 2020 In this day and age, many major illnesses are but a memory of a distant past. What we suffer from are but trifles to such horrid plagues as...
New Followers
Business was slow. In actuality, business had been slow for centuries, if not thousands of years, but Priapus hadn’t paid much attention to the passage of time. Gods were above such mortal limitations. It was quiet in his corner of ‘Paradise’, as...
A Frozen Embrace Final
**It was a sick joke. It had to be. The alternative was impossible.** **That's why I walked out of work. Why I drove three hundred miles to my hometown without telling a soul. Why I skidded up the icy, unlit roads to my old summer camp at Timber Lake,...