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Barry Stout

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Barry Stout

54
Writings
11
Followers
11
Following
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Waking Up Alone
4 chapters
5 likes

Aug 20, 2025

Waking Up Alone
4 chapters
5 likes

Sara goes to sleep next to her husband after putting there three daughters to bed. When she wakes up however her family is gone with no sign that that they were ever there.

Aug 20, 2025

Monsters Are Real

Barry Stout

1 min read

The silence was deafening and as every day passed it grew louder. Clyde would come out from the bed every night hoping thank Jake would come back home safe and sound. Looking around the room Clyde took in the posters on the walls from different movies Jake had loved so much. Toys were still laying around the room from the lying Jake had played with them....

Adventure

Fantasy

1
Walking Out The Door

Barry Stout

1 min read

"In some ways, it was nice to be the one leaving, instead of the one getting left." Sara said to Benny. The two had been friends since her first job as a waitress right after high school. The two now sat on Bennys front porch, sipping some fresh lemonade.

"I have known you many years now, Sara. I don't think you feel good at all about what happened." Benny says sipping his drink....

Romance

Drama

2

Barry Stout

1 min read

Waking Up Alone
Waking Up Alone

Chapter 4

Chapter 4


Felipe was not sure why he was being sent to a possible breaking when he was a homicide detective. He finished his breakfast before heading to the crime scene. There did not seem to be the normal urgency that he got with his usual cases but some seemed very off. As he finished his toast, he pulled out his wallet and put a twenty in the counter. This was one of his favorite places to sto...

Mystery

Horror

2
Leaving My Body

Barry Stout

1 min read

Fire rages through the house. It consumes everything it comes in contact with. Ray can feel the heat coming from under his bedroom door. The smoke from the fire filling his room and his lungs. Unfortunately for him his room is on the second floor and there is no window. He has not idea how is going to escape but he knows that somehow he will get out of this. He can hear windows bursting downstairs...

Fantasy

Horror

1

Barry Stout

1 min read

Waking Up Alone
Waking Up Alone

Chapter 3

Chapter 3


Sara panted heavily as she looked over her shoulder. The sirens could still be heard in the distance. She had never ran so fast in her entire life. She had a feeling no one was going to believe her and getting locked up was not going to help her current situation. At the moment she had no idea who she could turn to but had a feeling the number she had found in her pocket would be helpfu...

Mystery

Drama

1
The Hunter

Barry Stout

1 min read

Its the last of its kind but also the best. It was born to hunt but is also good at fleeing if it needed to. Running did not come naturally to his species but Grim was not like the others. He understood the importance of regrouping and coming back to the fight. As years went by and bigger and better creatures crawled from the pit, Grim watched as his kind slowly perished. He knew that he could nev...

Fantasy

Action

1

Barry Stout

2 min read

Waking Up Alone
Waking Up Alone

Chapter 2

Chapter 2


As Sara opened her eyes she immediately knew that something was wrong. There was no obvious signs but in her gut she knew. She rolled over to see if her husband was still asleep but he was gone. This in itself was not surprising, as he often went to work before she woke up. What was disturbing was the fact that his side of the bed looked like he had never slept in it. Even though she w...

Romance

Mystery

1

Barry Stout

1 min read

Waking Up Alone
Waking Up Alone

Chapter 1

Chapter 1


The day seemed to go faster than usual. Sara thought to herself as she closed the door to her three daughters room. At one three and five they were only reason Sara was still here. In her early teens life had been hard on her and before she got pregnant with her oldest she had no reason to live. She was living on the street since she was only ten years old. The lights were off but she h...

Horror

Romance

1
The Night It Ended

Barry Stout

1 min read

Sara looked through the drawers in the kitchen but was unable to locate the pistol she had purchased two weeks ago. Looking back this was probably the worst place she could have kept it. David never came into the kitchen but she had seen his new friend in here several times. It was his new woman and he did not even have the decency to go over to her place.

“Hey you looking for this?” Mandy asked ...

Adventure

Fantasy

1
The Day It All Started

Barry Stout

1 min read

Danielle sat up in bed covered in a cold sweat. Even though the room was a warm seventy two degrees. This was the third night this week she had woken to the same dream. She did not bother turning on the bedside lamp cause she did not want to wake her younger brother Andrew but it did not matter he was already awake.

“Is it the same dream?” He asked from the bed next to hers....

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