This is a horror blog, but not the kind with screaming teens and buckets of blood.
The Smile Motel is one of those places you only notice when your high beams hit it at 2:00 AM. It sits on a desolate stretch of Route 301, just south of Waldorf, tucked behind a tangle of old oaks and overgrown briars. It’s a relic of an older Charles County, the kind of place […]
I woke up lying in mud. As rain poured down, turning the ditch into a trench of brown water and blood. My leg felt like it was on fire, and when I looked down, the bandage I’d tied around it was more red than white. I remember screaming for help, my voice breaking, but only […]
I remember him. A man in his thirties… nervous. He sat right there, in that chair across from me, wringing his hands as he told me about thoughts that didn’t belong to him.“They come at night,” he said. “It’s like someone else is steering my mind.” I nodded along, trying to make him feel comfortable, […]
The Kingdom of Galacia once stood proud, its spires glimmering like frost beneath the northern sun. It was the jewel of Ibersia’s crown, a bastion of power and wealth. But pride falls, as do kingdoms… and mine was buried beneath the mountain’s weight, and the cruelty of snow. Now it is called the Lost Kingdom. A land of […]
Santa Elena has always been a place where the veil between the living and the other world thins. As a child, I heard the stories told on porches and around candlelight, but I never believed them, until the night I first heard the pebbles at my window. At first, I thought it was just children playing. […]
The lonely expanse of space was the only company I’d known for three months. My solo mapping mission had become my entire world. Orbiting a pale, unassuming gas giant, I was cataloging a new stellar cluster. It was a tedious process, but the silence of the void was a balm to my soul. That’s when […]
They say when something’s broken, it tries to repeat itself. That’s what my old physics teacher said about time. He was drunk when he said it, so I was the only one who listened. And I think about it every morning at 7:42 a.m. when I see the bird. It’s always the same, a crushed […]
It arrived around noon.No return address. Just her name, Leah, scrawled in faded ink. Inside the box was an old black-and-white photo.In it, a young Leah stood beside a man in a trench coat, one hand on her shoulder.She couldn’t have been older than five.But she’d never seen that photo in her life.And she’d definitely […]
The subway lurched to a sudden stop between stations. No warning. No announcement. Just the sharp screech of metal and the flicker of overhead lights. Then a voice crackled over the intercom, distorted, almost too slow, as if played on warped tape: “We… are… experiencing… a… temporary delay. Remain… calm.” People looked around, confused. No […]
My name is Dan, and I know why you are here: you want to know how I landed this sweet little studio apartment for free. It started when I found a luxury loft for $300 a month. I thought it was a scam. Turns out, it was worse: It was a deal. Furnished, skyline view, […]