Creepy House

"Most horrible of all sights are the little unpainted wooden houses remote from travelled ways, usually squatted upon some damp, grassy slope or leaning against some gigantic outcropping of rock. Two hundred years and more they have leaned or squatted...

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The Mongrel

"The bats are in the belfry "The dew is on the moor "Where are the arms that held me? "And pledged her love before? "And pledged her love before" --Tom Waits, Innocent When You Dream --- Note to the Reader - This one is dark. Some people have...

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Pleonexia

Amina knew that it had taken her longer to find the location of the temple than it was taking to descend from where she dangled below a hole in the ground leading into it. But it was certainly taking long enough. Far longer than it needed to. Far...

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Wear and Tear

"There's something very wrong with me." Owen had been in a relationship with Amaris for long enough to know this was a tremendous understatement--although probably not in the way that she may have meant it. "Baby, look at this place! I'm surprised...

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The Faithful

"You will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth." --God, who loves you quite a lot apparently Church was everything to Maria. In her eyes, it was everything to everyone, although some unlucky souls just didn't know it yet. The...

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Hollow Eyes 2: Coming Home

A cabin sat alone in the woods, awaiting the return of its owner as it had for several months. But it was a pleasant place to wait. The woods in the mountains of North Carolina are something out of a storybook. Tolkien could write at least a trillion...

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