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Charcoal and Caramel

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The Flicker In The Dark

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Jordan had always hated the flickering streetlight outside their house. It buzzed lik

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Traitor

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For You.

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Deshauna Potter

2 min read

I close the door with a click, leaving me out in the music note riddled hallway. Walking away from the classroom with the “Sean” kid, I wondered if she was actually serious. Threatening to kill us if we don’t do what she wants? How would she even kill us? I mean, she could get our dorm rooms from the office files, but I don’t see her plans going much further from there.

Even if her plan didn’t ma...

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Thriller

The Man In The Woods

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3 min read

On a cold winters eve, Callie stumbled across the enchanting woods where most people made their own dreams come true. Once she was standing in front of the frozen sickles hanging from the vines she saw a figure among the trees. There wasn’t enough time for her too shout to the figure because after she stepped on a twig it bolted away. The figures seemed to be carrying some th big sharp maybe a hat...

Thriller

Horror

A Package Misplaced

Rebecca Harper

1 min read

The key they’d given me still fit in the lock, but the house no longer feels like home. As I step into the dilapidated house and close the door behind me, I’m sixteen again. The heavy grief that has a permanent home in my chest is temporarily replaced with a young sense of familiarity, togetherness, and joy - feelings I haven’t greeted in over 20 years. I gently place the single house key in the s...

Mystery

Thriller

The Worthhart Curse

Brianna Lixey

7 min read

…but everything changed now that I am older. Memories pass as the clouds drift further and further away. The deep blue sky is left, open and alone, like a little fish in the big blue ocean. My name is Amelia Worthhart, the daughter of Florence Worthhart. My family was long ago given a curse. Many people believe it’s just our family’s bad luck, but I believe the misfortune is much more than that. M...

Action

Thriller

Darkness And The Light

Fabled Fire

1 min read

Chaos erupted in the cavern. Rocks were falling from the sealing, there were screams echoing throughout the catacombs. Maggy searched the sea of monsters and people trying to find Quinten. “Quinten!” She screamed, hoping on a table trying to see into the chaos. That’s when she spotted his copper brown locks. A monster lept at Maggy knocking her off the table. Maggy scrambled trying to get up but t...

Thriller

Romance

A Tap At The Window

Melani Travioli

3 min read

I lay in my bed staring into the darkness. There was no moon tonight so even the open window provided no light. It did however, allow a slight breeze to ruffle the curtains as it entered the room. The cool night air blew gently across the bed and cooled my sweaty body, hot from wrestling with the sheets. I began to plan my day as I lay there enjoying the cool, fresh air.

Suddenly, a strange feel...

Horror

Thriller

The Girl With The Raven Hair

Rebecca Harper

1 min read

Birds circled overhead as we graze at our picnic lunch. I start to wonder if those ravens are here for more, like me, considering this will be my dates last meal. I glanced at my neatly folded cloth napkin disguising my father’s hunting knife which was one of the few items he left behind after the accident. “I’m ready for cake!” My date exclaims as he reaches across the blanket. I whip my hand up,...

Crime

Thriller

The Screaming Wood

Z.A

1 min read

The floorboards screamed.

Screamed for me to turn back.

Telling me that curiosity will kill the cat. But I can’t help it.

I need to know what’s in the basements. What secrets my uncle hides in there.

The floorboards alert him.

I hear footsteps.

Before I can react, everything goes black.

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Thriller

The Dress

Rebecca Harper

1 min read

The dress I’m wearing is from my dead mother. She killed herself when I was 12 and this is all I have left of her after the fire took everything else away. The blue silk around my waist reminds me of the piercing shade in her eyes whenever she wore it. Now that I’ve made a new life in this small town, I don’t want to be known as the Mother Killer anymore....

Mystery

Thriller

Breaking Bad

Ann Fisher

1 min read

He dreaded this moment. Susan stood in the kitchen at the cutting board, chopping vegetables for tonight’s dinner. She had no clue. Not so sweet, but definitely unsuspecting. This would devastate her at the minimum, disintegrate her psyche possibly. How was he going to tell her?...

Thriller

Drama