"Why do I remember every detail of the day I was born? It's not just because of the dream; it's because today, October 10, 1997, will be the seventh time." Eleanor Blackwell is turning seventeen and although excited about her birthday, she already knows what it will bring. At seventeen Ellie will meet the boy of her...
I am a Teller. I can read your mind. People like me are not supposed to exist. But I do, I am the only Teller. The Good Facility chose me, but I do not know why. Now I'm "hiding out" at a private high school. It wasn't easy to get here. But after meeting another person who The Good Facility chose, I am told that the e...
A mental patient writes letters to himself asking why he can't sleep. He replies, telling the story about a princess that left a kingdom in despair... ~A short story. Cover by @newtabs
Imagine living a full life, dying months after your beloved wife passes and being buried. Only to wake up 300 years later, called out of the grave to fight a final war against an alien invasion. Join Max Niekro, formerly living and now Risen as he deals with this reality as the forces of Earth, both living and dead...
The Solavar and the Mardish; two ancient and corrupt elvish empires tottering towards a final, apocalyptic end war known in prophecy as the T'sar; the War of the Leaf. That same prophecy declared that only they who hold the Sword of Blood will emerge victorious and avoid total annihilation. And so they search for th...
In Contro City people disappearing or winding up dead was not out of the ordinary. One photograph in the newspaper made headlines and changed everything. A weeping dog standing over the corpse of his owner - a promising young boxer, has Contro's Finest on the hunt for a twisted predator. Paul Lantar is one busy youn...
Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toron...
When computer analyst Dave Napoli discovers the truth about a utopian organization called The Geneva Project, his life is changed forever. Soon, he and his family are on the run, and he couldn’t have picked more powerful enemies anywhere on earth: the infamous Bilderberg Group. For more than half a century, the world’...
Clara's a sixteen year old lesbian whose been keeping it a secret from her parents and everyone else for as long as she can remember. When she's caught and the rumours start to fly it's only natural that the administration and eventually her parents catch wind.
"Have you seen drop.avi?" That's the question. It seems like everyone's heard of this mysterious internet video, but no one has actually seen it. Some say youtube pulled it because it was "doing things to people." Other's say it's all just viral marketing for the next American J-Horror ripoff. But Adrian thinks he has...
[Part One of the Travelling with a Wolf series] Fairytales come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours. For June, it was the tall, handsome prince with whom she was betrothed. The wedding arranged, everything was set. With a bodyguard to safeguard her journey to Broadlakes, nothing could go wrong. But no one expect...
After a long nuclear battle between the East and the West, Earth is damaged beyond repair. A minority has been chosen to be relocated to a newly discovered planet, but the majority are left for dead on the dying Earth. it is a world where almost everyone has lost faith in the idea of a God and in the goodness of human...
Homeless and savagely beaten, Amy Mair sits waiting in a police interrogation room. She witnessed the murder of a friend and the police want to know more. But what can or will she tell them? When everyone sees the world in a different light, is the way she or society saw him the way he saw himself. Who is right? Will...
After arriving in a tiny rural village in South West England, Mike and Mary feel differently about the four hundred year old cottage Mike has rented. To Mary the village is too remote, the accommodation too strange, but she soon changes her mind.
In a reality very near to our own, a parody of Earth which is so close, it can't even be described as a 'parallel' world, resides Latura. Her world is full of Mad Scientists, Demons and decidedly ooky Hell-beasties. Oh, and Pumpkinhead, but not the one from the film. Where a Goldfish might turn out to be something ot...
Riya, an angel, is the top flier in her class, training to fight with the Angel Army against the Demons of Hell. But when she is kidnapped by James, a devil with whom she shares a special connection, her eyes are opened to a whole new world. Will their forbidden love prevail, or will they both be destroyed by the evil...
When a routine murder scene turns into something more twisted, Detective Alan Michaels faces off against a foe who is just beginning to show what evil can do.
This is the Sequel to the Hans Christian Anderson Story THE RED SHOES: From ages past comes the story of Red Shoes. It is okay because the red shoes are just a fairytale, aren't they? Nothing from a fairytale could hurt you, let us hope so because THE RED SHOES are back, with a vegence!
The roar of a van and the thump of rock and roll music gives a girl a preview of things to come
The Towers were constructed to preserve both our species and our history. The earth has been exploited, mined, ravaged and polluted to the point that survival of the human race is threatened. The governments of the world collect, sort and their people accordingly. Some are used for their intellect, their strength and...
A short Horror story set in London's Victorian Era. Resembles the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Within this short narrative I have compiled and refined the facts contributing to the current state of our existence and their dire implications.
With two brand new stories by Grady Richards. In this dark collection you will find otherworldly spiders, zombie debt collectors, malevolent pets, and prophecy gone awry. You will see into the heart of a child-killer and into the heart of a man mourning the loss of his daughter. You will find terrors locally in a ma...
In this Madhouse, there is more than one patient. The walls are littered with the stories of countless men and women who have come seeking sanctity from their own minds. Shattered remnants of broken psyches lay littered on the floor, in rotting beds, in crumbling walls... These are the Scribblings from the Asylum Wall...
The world is ravaged by a disease that breaks down the material that creates life and reorganizes it into something.... something different. As the few remaining clusters of humans fight the onslaught of mutated horrors and walking corpses, a war is being fought on the cellular level. Will the human race survive the m...
Science Fiction / Short story: In the future there is the City. A hedonistic world where humankind's every whim and need is catered for by the Mind, the super computer that controls every aspect of day to day life. The human mind is a far more complex thing than even the Mind can anticipate though. What happens when t...
Music:ON World:OFF Welcome to Syrus. Please pick up your complimentary pair of headphones at the gates. Plug them into your mandatory devices and skip to track four. Listen and enjoy. Cor's world is filled with notes and pitch and tone. Twenty three hours of the day she is hooked to the music mandated by the Serial Se...
