A woman recounts the events of her adolescence during the summer of 2002 that led her to face unimaginable horrors. As she grapples with the loss of her childhood, a new crush, and a looming threat, she begins to discover that everything comes with a price and that some mysteries might be best left unsolved.

A lone man stands in the middle of a dark boulevard. Do you turn around? Drive right past him? Or, do you take your chances and pick him up? The choice you make will decide your fate, and reveals more about yourself than you'd ever imagine.

A wannabe author uses an AI writing tool to chase fame, but when his bestselling horror novel begins warping reality, he discovers the true cost of outsourcing his soul.

Cherie Thibodeaux suddenly finds herself living alone on the old houseboat after her husband mysteriously vanished into the bayou. Then, one night, she hears something tapping on the hull from below.

Real mysteries that are still unsolved, disappearances, murders, and strange stories with no answers. The Cold Files is a collection of those cases that remain a mystery.

"Where are you going little one?" the voice in the Mage's head questions softly. He looks around, wondering if it was his inner speech who asked or someone corporeal. He's still alone, he had been, for a few days now. "North." 453 E.Y. The cloaked figure approaches the town of Bralden steadily. His eyes are aimed at the Keep on its periphery, a structure of stone walls hiding something he had been searching for. A source of more power, most likely. Mayhaps, a conduit for corruption also? Further north, to the distant Grathorn Mountains, the cliffs and crags seem to leer with the arrival of something... something other. They could only shudder in anticipation... for now.

In a small grocery store where unexplainable and unredeemable things happening are an expected occurrence, the night shift employees have somehow managed to keep reality from completely unraveling, until now.

Take a step through veiled shadows of everyday life when familiarity turns wicked. In this selection of chilling tales mundane acts becomes terrifying, and fragile minds crash under extraneous weight of twisted reality. In this book, short horror stories ranging from bite sized pieces to multiple parts - no more than three. A new story every two weeks, a new tale to sink your teeth into. Enter The Dark Tales Anthology for a trip into distant voids of humanity. The deeply disturbing macabre facets of our existence.

Olivia has been hiding a dark secret that will soon begin to consume her entire life.

ೃ⁀➷ poetry/prose from the viewpoint of a mournful heart ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ ➤ story contains content relating to grieving and loss. thank you for reading ♡ 🏅#15 in poetry