The house at the end of the street had been boarded up for as long as Rowan could remember.

It was the kind of house kids whispered about during sleepovers, daring each other to throw rocks at its windows or peek through the slats. It sat behind a gate of rusted iron and ivy, where the road cracked and narrowed as if even the pavement didn’t want to get too close.

No one ever came or went. No ma...

Jesse stood on the cracked sidewalk outside his childhood home, one hand resting on the handle of an overstuffed suitcase, the other clutching a key he wouldn’t need anymore.

The “SOLD” sign on the front lawn still didn’t feel real.

The town of Marlowe had always been small. One high school. One diner. One overworked mayor who also ran the hardware store. It was the kind of place where people me...

It all returns in pieces.

A laugh in the hallway, a song in the rain,

a shadow that knows your name—

It all returns in pieces.

The scent of dust on an old book's spine,

the creak in the stairs at night—divine.

It all returns in pieces.

A voice you knew, a place you left,

a silence full of what you kept.

It all returns in pieces.

And though time wears the edges thin,

some fragments still cut fro...

Claire was having a good day.

She had her favorite playlist in, a new iced coffee in hand, and managed to snag the last empty double seat on the city bus—not next to a snorer, not sticky, and no mystery smells. A rare jackpot.

As the bus rolled along, she sipped her coffee and started daydreaming. It was that kind of warm, zoning-out-in-public moment where everything feels peaceful.

Until she f...

The game was called echoes of Halcyon. A horror-survival multiplayer experience that dropped six players into an abandoned research facility hidden deep within the Arctic Circle. No one knew who made the game—there was no studio name, no credits, no support page—just a cryptic tagline: "Once you're in, the echoes find you."

Claire, Sara, Blair, Max, Ava, and Dave were close friends who loved expl...

once upon a time in a land not so far away lived a teenage girl looking for a job after school when she stumbled across a antique shop that had a help wanted sign she walked in she saw a middle age woman who asked her to come to the back for an interview.during the interview the girl was asked what her favorite kind of movie was. My favorite kind of movie is action or superhero movies. Why said th...