“What are you doing?”
The patio door swung open. I panicked and jumped about ten feet. She was near me, a car’s length to my left.
Short Stories
“What are you doing?”
The patio door swung open. I panicked and jumped about ten feet. She was near me, a car’s length to my left.
The restaurant is crowded and the hum is building as the place quickly fills and the overfilled plates and glasses arrive at the small, closely jammed tables.
I sat across from Sarah in the kitchen, her dark brown hair held to one side with a scrunchy. She was wearing a pink robe, faded from years of wear. It was now past twelve on a chilly October night.
Dead?” she asked the officer standing at the door. Martha wore a shocked look.
My dad tapped the top of his beer can and turned Tom Petty up louder.
“Make sure you get the right kind.”
I was sitting in my room when I first saw it. Or thought I saw it, I suppose. I can’t say that I’ve ever actually seen anything. But I knew it was there, nonetheless.
October 22, 2015 by Rayma Elaine It was a chilly Thursday, sometime last November. I had very late night at the office. Since I was the last one there, I had to check all the rooms and then lock up. I turned out the last light, then was on my way out. I locked up…
Since her mother left and they moved into that old Victorian home, Martin saw his daughter, Eva, change drastically.
You know those horror stories that start out with a line something like ‘it was a dark and stormy night’? This isn’t one of those.
Detective Burns and Lowry hurried down the creaky hallway with weapons firmly drawn. Cobwebs and exposed wiring along the ceiling blazed with an eerie yellow
No, don’t wake up. I’ve been waiting for a quiet moment.
Father Rosso stood over the corpseless head, his beautiful white robes stained with blood. His body was rigid, yet calm, like a man at prayer, which he might have been, save for the knife clenched in his fist.
Even before I open my eyes, I feel its dark, malignant presence. It stands motionless in the corner of my bedroom. The air is cold but thick with a putrid stench
“Can’t we watch something more interesting?”
These weird double-people Melody observed from time to time around the house never hurt her, but the moment she realized they were imitations and not real people