Atmosphere Stories

In an act of desperation, the historian Aurora Payne sold her soul. Now, the Devil has collected his due. But Aurora soon finds that the real Hell is hardly anything like its theological descriptions. Hell is not just a jail for sinners, it's a prison for the most destructive entity in the universe: the Horde. An ancient deity akin to a black hole, the Horde is the mother of all demons and nightmares. The Celestials constructed Hell over 8,000 years ago to be Its jail and have sent the humans there to be Its food. Forced into a cosmic order that treats humans as livestock, Aurora must choose between survival and keeping her soul intact. Annunciation, Book 1 of the HORDE series, follows Aurora's descent into this infernal court of monstrous demons who all want a piece of her, and a Devil who's just realized he wants her most of all. Content Warnings: This series contains mature themes including graphic violence, horror imagery, gore, psychological distress, coercive power dynamics, sexuality, nudity, profanity, themes of death and damnation, and later depictions/references of sexual violence. Explicit content is off-page here - this is a censored/faded version, with links to find explicit content elsewhere. Posted every Tuesday and Thursday without fail. Note: HORDE was written in advance to serializing here and is registered with the US Copyright Office. I only post on RR and Wattpad under TheHordeWorks, and on Patreon as "Horde by A.E. Payne". If you find my work anywhere else, it was not posted by me. Please do let me know.

Добро пожаловать в Психиатрическую больницу имени профессора Кальта! Здесь лечат безумие. Здесь боятся темноты. Здесь не верят в призраков. А зря. Стены хранят свои тайны. За каждым углом прячется угроза, в каждом взгляде - холод, в тихом шёпоте - жуткие истории о тех, кто пытался докопаться до истины. Безнадёжные пациенты больше никогда не видят небо. Тени живут своей жизнью и следят за каждым. Алиса пришла сюда за правдой. Она искала ответы - и нашла их. Вот только правда оказалась страшнее, чем она могла себе представить. Теперь ей предстоит решить: замолчать и стать очередным экспонатом в коллекции безумного гения, либо разгадать загадку до конца. Даже если истина сведёт её с ума. А может, она подарит облегчение? Психологический триллер о том, как далеко может зайти человек в поисках правды. И о том, что происходит, когда правда находит тебя сама.

Exactly what it sounds like

In the neon-soaked city of Arcadia, Detective Alex Harper lives haunted by the ghosts of unsolved cases and the corruption festering beneath the city's shining surface. One rainy evening, a mysterious black-and-white photograph is slipped under his office door - a portrait of a woman with piercing eyes and an unsettling smile. The woman is identified as Evelyn Cross, a missing witness connected to a brutal murder case that went cold nearly ten years earlier - a case that destroyed careers, buried evidence, and left powerful people untouched. Driven by obsession and guilt, Alex reopens the investigation despite warnings from former allies and threats from dangerous enemies. As he follows a trail of hidden files, secret meetings, and forgotten memories, he uncovers a conspiracy reaching deep into Arcadia's political elite and criminal underworld. But the closer Alex gets to the truth, the more he realizes Evelyn was hiding secrets of her own. Someone is determined to keep the past buried, and bodies begin to appear wherever the investigation leads. With trust fading and danger closing in, Alex must decide how far he is willing to go for the truth - before the shadows of the forgotten consume him too.

In a city that never stops moving, four quiet lives drift through the exact same night. A top student trapped under suffocating expectations. An artist hiding her true feelings behind silent sketches. A rooftop dancer trying to escape the world's rigid rules. And a musician wandering empty streets, searching for a sound that feels real. They live completely separate lives-yet under the backdrop of glowing streetlights and quiet starry skies, their worlds are about to subtly align. An atmospheric slice-of-life story about isolation, youth, art, and finding where you belong when you feel like a star that was never meant to exist. sliceoflife #drama #comingofage #art #music #atmospheric #originalstory #youth #schoollife

Ryleigh is the quiet heartbeat of her community - the one everyone knows, the one everyone trusts. Her dreams have always been vivid, strange, a little too real... but lately they've started to feel like warnings. She doesn't know what they mean, not yet. All she knows is that something is shifting around her, and the first signs of it are waiting for her in the dark between dreams.

After everything, Ava finally expects things to be normal again, now that Fredrick is there to help them. But will her wish be granted?

The sea doesn't give gifts. It only returns what history tried to bury. Along the storm-worn shores of Koral, every wolf knows their bloodline, their place, and the ancient laws that have guided the pack for generations. Until the sea returns a child. Found alone on the northern shore, Eve bears crimson hair, emerald eyes, and a scent no wolf recognizes. The elders have no answers. The oldest songs speak in riddles. Forgotten words come naturally to her, awakening memories no one alive should remember. As Eve grows, whispers become fears. Ancient prophecies stir. Buried histories resurface. And Miles, a quiet scholar devoted to Koral's forgotten archives, finds himself drawn into mysteries that challenge everything his people believe about their past-and everything he thought he knew about Eve. Together they uncover a truth powerful enough to divide packs, rewrite history, and awaken a bloodline the world believed lost. Because some bloodlines were never extinct. They were only forgotten. A slow-burn fantasy featuring ancient wolf lore, forgotten languages, political intrigue, found family, hidden history, rich world-building, and a romance that unfolds across years rather than moments.

The shrine at the top of the hill has been abandoned for four hundred years. The frost never crosses its threshold. Each spring, white flowers bloom where nothing should grow. The villagers leave offerings at the foot of the steps, then hurry away before sunset. No one speaks of what lives beneath the cedar hall. No one climbs the hill twice. Except her. What begins as fear becomes habit. Habit becomes conversation. Conversation becomes the slowest kind of devotion. He never lies to the ones he likes. She is never tricked. Across sixty years of winters, funerals, harvests, and ordinary days, a girl and the thing sealed beneath an ancient shrine forge a bond neither of them was ever meant to have. Some promises are not made with love. Some are simply kept. A quiet dark fantasy inspired by Japanese folklore, where monsters tell the truth, kindness can become its own prison, and attendance is the rarest form of devotion.

Mercy is easier when the world isn't starving. if survival demands cruelty everytime, then what actually survives? The world did not end with fire. It ended with petals that can pierce flesh. Power does not corrupt the heart, it merely removes the the curtains hiding it Even the purest flower drinks from graves beneath its soil. Do everything can be a miracle gifted by the nature? Or merely a curse? Hope is a candle that survives by teaching itself how to burn slowly. Let us ponder in a world where a garden does not ask permission before it devours the ruin beneath it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [ IMPORTANT NOTICE: "Some" parts of this story is written in a poetic and philosophical style. Some dialogues, symbols, and meanings may not be immediately understood, as they are to be felt as much as they are read. The world within these pages speaks in silence, metaphors(some), and emotion. Interpretations may differ from person to person - and that is part of the story itself. Read slowly. The garden does not bloom for hurried eyes] ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Warning: This story contains violence, grief, and moments of human cruelty. Not all wounds in this world are made by monsters.] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Author's Note: This story was born from silence, ruin, and the strange beauty of survival. Thank you for stepping into the garden. -----------------------------------------------------------------

"Some secrets are too heavy for a single soul to bear. So the book holds them all."

With the floods closing in and a fortune waiting at the heart of the Grove, Ito convinces Yrami and Batu - two scarred prospectors - to let him come along to the place no one has ever come back from.

Com a cheia se aproximando e uma fortuna à espera no coração do Bosque, Ito convence Yrami e Batu - dois exploradores marcados por cicatrizes - a deixá-lo acompanhá-los até o lugar de onde ninguém jamais voltou.

Concealed within our hands' own might, Destruction vast as sands in flight. Who can say what lies in view, When all the world belongs to you?

Casper Wain sees the lives that were erased. Every person is followed by ghosts of forgotten choices, abandoned futures, and histories rewritten out of existence. Casper is one of the few people born able to see them-a Marginalian working for the Witnesses, a secret order devoted to remembering what the rest of the world has lost. When a death draws him into the trail of Elias Rourke, an Editor who can rewrite reality itself, Casper uncovers a truth buried beneath centuries of deliberate erasures. Every rewritten memory leaves something behind. Every mercy creates a ghost. And the weight of those forgotten lives is beginning to break through into the world. As Casper follows the echoes of a conspiracy that reaches back to his own father's disappearance, he must confront a question no Witness has ever been able to answer: if you could erase the worst pain of your life, would you still be the same person afterward? THE UNWRITTEN is a literary paranormal mystery about memory, grief, and the parts of ourselves that survive even when history forgets them.

: Perth as a bar owner Santa as a creative director/visual producer _ Santa spent his life creating a world that looked perfect. Perth spent his life protecting a world that was real. Santa is chaos. Perth is peace. "some places aren't special because of how they look, they're special because they allow people to be themselves." _ : 2am bangkok, rain, motorcycles, whiskey, neon, cigarettes, leather jackets, black, silver jewelry, looks instead words, tension

After his mother's death, Noah Anderson is forced to leave Michigan with his younger sister for St. Lawrence Academy, a prestigious and isolated boarding school in Canada. ​By day, it seems like a normal elite school. But after Midnight everything changes: hallways disappear, doors lead to impossible places, and the ancient castle reveals its true nature. ​Rumors say the academy is haunted by things lingering for decades-things that only emerge after ten. Noah doesn't believe in ghosts, until he hears his mother's voice calling through the corridors. ​As he gets closer to the truth, he realizes her death wasn't the end... but the beginning.

Some songs stay with you forever. Some people don't. Lyra Vale has spent her entire life believing music is her way out of Briarwood-a quiet coastal town where everyone knows your name, every memory lingers like the fog, and leaving feels impossible. When her band is offered the opportunity they've always dreamed of, Lyra is forced to choose between the future she's fought for and the people who made that dream possible. As old friendships begin to fracture, first love finds its way back into her life, and long-buried regrets refuse to stay buried, Briarwood itself seems to whisper that some things are never truly gone. Strange figures appear in the fog, forgotten songs echo where no one is singing, and the closer Lyra comes to the life she's always wanted, the more she wonders what she'll have to leave behind to claim it. Heartbreaking, atmospheric, and impossible to put down, The Song in the Fog is a story about ambition, first love, found family, forgiveness, and the quiet ways we lose ourselves while chasing the lives we've always imagined. Because sometimes the hardest part isn't following your dreams. It's surviving the person they ask you to become.

A Southern Gothic Ghost Story. When human bones are discovered in a Mississippi river bed, Fran Boden -- a loner with peculiar gifts -- returns to her small town to probe the origins of her mother's long-ago disappearance and confront the ghosts of her family, both living and dead.