Claustrofobia Stories

Quinn Stories is ongoing fiction rooted in lived detail. Quinn, a former high-performing salesman and failed musician, tries to rebuild his life through the only doors that still open: old friendships, questionable opportunities, and the hope that music can rewrite the past. In "A Cross Country Voicemail, Winter 1996," a cross-country drive delivers him to a narrow house in Connecticut where welcome comes with rules, and intimacy comes with terms. The band reunion he's been promised begins to feel like something else: a negotiation, a performance, a trap that tightens through small, deniable acts. Quinn wants to trust. He wants to belong. But in a duplex with thin walls and thick boundaries, belonging has a price.

Some frequencies are meant to remain dead air. It is October 1998, and Arlo Banks is suffocating in a purgatory of yellowed plastic, stale marijuana smoke, and the claustrophobic sub-basements of Channel 8. As a night-shift archival assistant and a functional burnout, Arlo escapes his mundane reality by abusing heavy strains of marijuana and diving deep into early internet lore and urban legends. When his passive-aggressive manager writes him up for unauthorized napping, Arlo retaliates by raiding a condemned sub-basement and stealing a sealed box of VHS tapes. He hopes to unearth a profitable piece of lost media to boost his reputation on the message boards. Instead, he brings home a biological puppet. The tapes contain The Happy Hollows, a rumored "Holy Grail" of lost media. But the broadcast does not stay on the screen. The footage begins to mimic Arlo's reality on a delay-a delay that is rapidly shortening. Arlo initially relies on the "Stoner Defense," rationalizing the bizarre events as weed-induced paranoia, hallucinations, or an elaborate prank. But the physical world begins to rot. His environment mutates into a tactile nightmare of "Damp Plush". Glass softens into gelatin , blood thickens into strawberry preserves , and human flesh takes on the texture of distressed velvet. Hunted through infinitely stretching hallways by a towering mascot named Uncle Corduroy and a swarm of Clay-Kin, Arlo must navigate the collapsing boundary between reality and the broadcast. He has to sever the signal before the frequency overtakes him entirely, transforming his own anatomy into polyester stuffing and rusted wire.

Knowledge is currency. Alchemy is knowledge. Most people don't know it exists. Those who do call it heresy. Those who practice it call it ascension. Man wakes in the lightless depths of Tauran City Prison with no records, no past-only a vocabulary that doesn't belong to him. In a facility built to process human bodies, ignorance is a death sentence. To survive, he bonds with a parasitic alchemical metal: a weapon that grows stronger with blood, memory, and use. But power always comes at a price he doesn't yet understand. Guided by a man who knows too much and a girl who should not have survived this long, he descends through a system where alchemy is graded, identities fracture, and nothing is free. You are not a prisoner. You are a specimen. And ascension has already begun.

Starflight awakes stuck inside the tunnel that they use to get across, and to save the Rainwings and Nightwings. He attempts to escape, as his mind begins to slowly fly away from him. (All characters from the book 'Wings of Fire' belong to Tui T. Sutherland. Characters that aren't from the book belong to me.)

In the wake of a single, bloody night that stole her childhood, Gwen's world is reduced to two absolute truths: the enduring love for her younger sister, and a vow of vengeance etched in ash and memory. Haunted by the enigmatic shadow of a woman known as ash-the stranger who slipped a blade into her hand and vanished-Gwen must forge herself into a weapon. As she navigates a ravaged, secretive landscape where ordinary lives are meticulously secluded from hidden perils, her quest for answers becomes a journey into the heart of a profound darkness. This is a story of trauma forged into resilience, of myth born from survival, and the relentless pursuit of justice in a world where the line between protector and predator is as thin as the edge of a knife. A literary dark fantasy that explores the weight of memory, the legacy of violence, and the fierce, unbreakable bonds that define us.

Aliton a 2nd-year College student from London/United Kingdom teleported to Portal Rooms or what we call a time traveler's headroom after finding out he has this kind of sickness called "Migraine" that has no cure. He finds an old friend of his who will maybe help him thought-out finishing his tasks and objectives. After completing those tasks or objectives Aliton went back to the real world where his parents had died, 25 years old seeing papers of him missing, he find his way of taking care of himself all alone but that will soon end when he found his kind-natured friend Leo.

One moment Ryan is driving in daylight. The next, he's buried beneath it. Trapped in suffocating darkness with nothing but his dying phone light, panic sets in. But when another presence reaches him in the dark, Ryan makes a sudden decision he can't undo. This is still a work in progress and will likely be revised.

"I am Claustrophobic Alex!", Rachel screamed. . . . . "And I am star-crossed", Alex smiled.

Four boys and four girls are on a trip to the theatre. Little do they know that they will never see the play. They're about to be plunged into a nightmare. Beneath the theatre lies a secret. And now she has been released... This complete novel was published in April 2010 by Corgi, an imprint of Random House Children's Publishing UK. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Hope you like monsters. :D Happy reading, best wishes and unspeakable horror - Sam

Buying a seemingly normal hunting cabin turns out to be the worst decision Jacob Bergmann could have made. Things go south after he discovers an old journal written by a woman who lived in the cabin 100 years ago. What horrors await Jacob as he moves into his new home? My website: williamroseberry.com/short-stories

A sensory experience

He seeks to escape his own ghost, leading him into total despair

Laura is trapped in an elevator. She has been there for as long as she can remember. The elevator is going down. She doesn't think she's alone. . . --- A short HORROR story from the author of CUPID'S MATCH and DEVILS INC. Previously featured on Wattpad. Find me on Instagram @LaurenPalphreyman

Lance and Keith are always bickering. The team has finally come to peace with the fact that the pair of paladins will never stop. But when Shiro has no other choice than sending them on an important mission together, their relationship is put to the test. They'll both have to fall back on each other's trust to complete the mission; and the aftermath of the mission. But they find... maybe their relationship is stronger than they thought... (I do own the cover art!)

A young dragon finds himself risking his life to save his brother. But his fear of Claustrophobia might play a role in determining whether or not he can save his brother. Will, he actually find his brother or will he die trying?

Prompt: Shroud Word count: 463/450 Genre: Suspense A cave diver finds himself in a dilemma.