Tag: horror
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Seventy-one
CONTENT WARNING The following story contains depictions of suicide and self-harm. — “Alright. Goodnight, all. I’ll be back…” I trail off, looking down at the corner to my viewer count. Zero people watching. “… tomorrow.” I clench my jaw, breathing out slowly through my nose, and click the “end stream” button. I slam my fist…
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Sixty-eight
The man stood before the sarcophagus at the end of the faded red carpet, tall lit candlesticks lining both sides. The faintest shine of gold could be seen on each of them, concealed underneath the melted wax of thousands of consumed candles. The marble walls stood cracked and crumbling, the grand pillars holding the tomb…
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Sixty-two
Nobody knows why, when we take a photo, we tell the subject of that photo to “say cheese!” It’s one of the many great mysteries of the modern age. It’s up there along with the construction of Stonehenge and the Riemann hypothesis. But what if I told you I discovered the truth? Let me take…
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Fifty-nine
“Tomato.” “Red.” “Carrot.” “Uh, uh… orange.” “Lemon.” “Yello— fuck!” Sadie screamed as the shock flowed through her body, shaking and jolting in the chair she was strapped into and threatening to rip it out of the ground. “Lemons are green, Miss Rivers,” the man in the suit sitting in front of her said, his hands…
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Fifty-eight
“I am not a pussy!” “Yeah?” chided Reece, hands on his hips and a disgustingly smug grin on his face, standing in front of his band of goons. “Go inside then!” My eye twitched as I looked over his shoulder to the property beyond. It was a derelict house, constructed of rotten wood and crumbling…
A Forsworn Fantasy 