Paranoia Stories

Alice Rhodes's got a problem. Two problems, actually. One, she's starting to find it difficult to differentiate water from a decent bottle of tequila, and two, she needs a boyfriend. Fast. The latter wouldn't be a problem at all if only she could keep her dates around for more than a week. It was a disaster how fast boys kept dumping her just because...well, she didn't really understand why. Attachments were scary, especially when they were mostly always unrequited. And as long as she kept them a kiss away, they wouldn't tear her apart, would they? But then the universe, in its cruelest of ways, sends her stumbling into the path of Ryder Octavio McQuillan, and every single thing about him sets her off balance. He's everything Alice doesn't need in her quiet life. Because Ryder carries secrets--dangerous secrets--that only seem to breathe trouble. Alice desperately needs to stay away, but what if the only thing that can save her is the danger that's knocking on the door? . . . . . Text copyright © Crystal7016 ™ 2022

The Arrival is the first chilling novella in The Fractured Veil series, a psychological suspense saga where memory, identity, and reality collide. When Ash moves into a quiet coastal town for a temporary archivist job, everything seems ordinary at first. The locals are polite, the boarding house strict, the fog thick but familiar. Then come the oddities: A locked door that ticks like a heartbeat. Neighbours who insist Ash has been here before. A friend who vanishes overnight - and a town that swears she never existed. Photographs that show Ash living another life, ten years ago. As paranoia escalates, Ash begins to question not only the town but their own identity. Because in this place, names are shared, memories are borrowed, and copies don't always come back right. Step inside if you dare - but remember the rule: when the house calls your name, don't answer. Perfect for fans of Shutter Island, House of Leaves, and Behind Her Eyes, this novella delivers claustrophobic dread and a twist ending that will haunt you long after the last page.

For five years, that is how long Maria lived a perfect, quiet life with Elias. In their sun frenched city apartment, Elias was the man of her dreams, a gentle soul with a penchant for peppermint tea and a way of making the world feel still. He was her protector, her confidant and her future but Elias had a secret he never spoke of in his past. When Maria finally demands to see the village where he was raised, the dream begins to dissolve into a chilling nightmare. She doesn't find a warm homecoming, she finds a graveyard etched into a cold stone headstone with Elias face. The date of death? Seven years ago. Caught between a love that feels real and a truth that is impossible, Maria is pulled into a terrifying spiral of supernatural obsession. As her home becomes a battleground of screaming pipes, blood smeared mirrors, and a cold that bites to the bone, Maria must face a heartbreaking choice. How do you mourn a man who is still holding your hand? And how do you survive a lover who would rather see you dead than see you leave? A hauntingly beautiful tale of grief, possession and the thin, jagged line between the living and the dead.

William has always lived in the spotlight-but behind the camera flashes and screaming crowds, he feels like a firefly: small, fleeting, and always chased. Est is the opposite. He's the forest-steady, grounded, a quiet kind of strong. After giving up his dreams of competitive swimming, he's learned to find peace in simplicity, running a small guesthouse in the mountains of Chiang Mai. When William stumbles into Est's world-half-lost, half-searching-they're both caught off guard by what they find in each other. What begins as wary coexistence slowly unravels into something neither expected: comfort, tension, healing, and the kind of love that lingers long after the moment ends. Together, they learn that love doesn't have to be rushed or fleeting-it can be steady, lasting, and true. Because even fireflies need a place to rest. And even forests need a little light. A tender, atmospheric romance about coming home to yourself-and to someone who sees you, truly.

"Sometimes pain needs to be endured for pleasure to sprout. After we're done with you, you will be a simple happy girl who doesn't cause trouble." Josephine Keller was always an anxious girl, but she is pushed to her limits when she is placed under the torturous care of Dr.Grant and his hellish nurse Beatrice. Labelled as a paranoid schizophrenic and forced to endure barbaric treatment, she must fight her way to sanity and freedom.

Nothing is supposed to be empty. But when a girl begins to notice the cracks in her world, she realizes that nothing is everywhere. Hallways stretch too long. Voices repeat themselves. Time skips, stalls, and breaks. Faces stare a second too long, like they're waiting for her to disappear. What starts as a single moment of terror becomes a quiet unraveling of reality itself-classrooms fade, people glitch, and the universe seems to be slowly collapsing inward. As her sense of self begins to dissolve, so does the world around her. She drifts between what is real and what only pretends to be, caught in a space where memories feel borrowed and existence feels unfinished. The boundaries between her mind and the universe blur, until it's impossible to tell whether reality is ending... or if she is. We Are Nothing is a haunting, surreal story about identity, isolation, and the terrifying beauty of disappearing. Told through fragments of a life that may never have existed, it explores psychosis as a cosmic event-where losing yourself feels like watching the universe fall apart, one quiet moment at a time. Because if everything came from nothing- Then maybe nothing is all that's left.

They didn't contact everyone. Just me. They knew what I liked before I said it. They fixed things I never asked to fix. They spoke to me like I already belonged. No one says it's mandatory. No one says it's permanent. But I've started to notice something. People who don't fit stop being mentioned. And no one remembers when they left.

A school trip. A broken bus. An abandoned academy that should've stayed buried. When Jenvsa Mequir and her classmates take shelter in an old, ruined school called Dead Evil Academy, they think it's temporary. They're wrong. At midnight, the gates seal shut. The bell rings with no teachers. Lockers bleed. And students start disappearing. A message appears on the blackboard: "Attendance is mandatory. Punishment is permanent." Trapped inside a school that follows its own twisted rules, Jenvsa must survive deadly nights, unravel a buried crime, and decide who to trust-especially when the most dangerous thing inside Dead Evil Academy isn't the darkness......it's the secrets they all carry. Survival is optional. Confession is not.

Plagued by misfortune and paranoia, Emily seeks solace from mystic Madame Vespera, only to uncover a tarot deck that traps souls forever. A chilling horror short about desperation, fate, and an unbreakable cycle. One reading changes everything... #Horror #TwistEnding #Cursed

2025 the year of supreme consciousness ~ [dear diary,] i could yap for hours about everyone i've ever known and loved, but who would care? this has 26 reads. no one has ever really convinced me they care, and i can't get it out of my head that no one could ever love me enough. i keep hoping for nothing but someone to love me, to be obsessed with me like i am with them, i could yap for hours about how paranoid i am that no ones real, just lonely enough to not see everything wrong with me, to only see the love i have for them, or how paranoid i am that everyones just using me for their own pleasure, for company, for anything really; i wish i knew all the reasons, but i only know the paranoia. i only know myself, i only know i'm all i really have, i only know i'll never really know anyone else. that only happens in the deepest of love stories. but i'm too stupid to give up hoping, so all i do is wish and hope and search for someone as real as myself. [i know something has always been wrong with me.] amelia, joseph sparkle jess lee charly coffee shop ej evie & arda zach neo the existential crisis of wondering how many more there'll be, and how many i've forgotten the names of. how many more i'll write about, and how many i'll never stop thinking about. how many more i'll ghost, and how many more will wonder what they did wrong. how much more guilt i can handle, and how much more sadness i can feel. how much more incomprehensible i can write, and how much more i wish that someone would notice how i write. ~ even so, most of what i do write will go unread. even if i upload it here.

Two girls bound by a dangerous love. A silent father who watches everything. A house where mirrors lie, memories shift, and time refuses to stay still. There are no monsters here- only doubt, guilt, and a truth that refuses to surface. Nothing is what it seems. And the door everyone avoids may hold the end of everything.

"Shadows are not always what they seem." -Unknown. They didn't create the darkness. They just taught it how to survive. READER ADVISORY‼️‼️ This story contains secrets, moral ambiguity, and characters who are not what they seem. Read carefully. Trust slowly. Not everyone who enters the shadows finds their way back. CLASSIFIED FILE - RESTRICTED ACCESS Division: Light Division Subject Designation: Z Status: Escaped Threat Level: Extreme Notes: Subject demonstrates abnormal interaction with shadow-based energy. Do not pursue without authorization. Do not underestimate. Terminate only if containment fails. AUTHOR'S NOTE: Some of you will read this story and think it's about light versus dark. Maybe it is. Maybe it's about the choices we make when the world refuses to tell us the truth. Either way, keep your eyes open - you never know who is watching from the shadows. If you were hunted for what you are... would you keep running - or would you fight back? ━━━━━━━━━━ ◈ ━━━━━━━━━━ Elliot Hale only wanted help. Instead, he became an experiment. After a failed escape from a secret government facility known as The Light Division, Elliot discovers the truth hidden in his blood-he was never ordinary. Shadows answer his call. Darkness bends to his will. And the people who broke him want him back. As Elliot struggles to survive on the outside, hunted and wounded, he learns that the world is divided between those who control the light... and those born from the shadows. When a girl with secrets of her own enters his life, Elliot must choose: keep running, or fight back against the division that created him. Power comes at a price. Freedom demands a war. And some experiments were never meant to escape. 🖤 Shadowborn is a dark sci-fi fantasy thriller filled with secrets, betrayal, slow-burn tension, and the battle between light and shadow

Margo Sutton lives by routine. As a Risk & Compliance Officer, she trusts systems that behave correctly and environments that stay predictable. Her apartment is quiet. Orderly. Safe. Until small things begin to misalign. A light left on. A reminder she doesn't remember setting. Silence that lingers too long. Nothing is broken. Everything has a reasonable explanation - until the patterns start to repeat. TWISTED REFLECTIONS is a psychological thriller about control, access, and the unsettling realization that a life can be studied and influenced without force, intrusion, or warning. Sometimes the most dangerous thing isn't being watched. It's being understood.

things I think about and/or things that happen that I need to get off my chest (could be triggering?)

The red hat society in the small town of Denim is entitled and full of widows. coincidence?

IN WHICH... Elizabeth Anastasia Davis is simply trying to keep her busy social life afloat and keep her 4.0 GPA stable so she can get out of Hawkins. She did not sign up for fighting inter-dimensional beings, or Russians, or her girlfriend, who no-one knows about (and she'd like to keep it that way, thank you very much.) It also doesn't help that Steve "The Hair" Harrington has started flirting with both her, and her girlfriend. She just wants to sleep. And for the record to show that this? This was not the plan. robin buckley x oc pre-s3 - s5 cross-posted to ao3

Carl, es un joven de 21 años, que recibe de recomendación de su Psicólogo tener un pasatiempo, el elige el origami, sin embargo esta decisión le trae mas problemas que soluciones.

Harry and Louis met at a very young age and even at such a young age, they knew they were it for each other. Despite their love for each other, fate had different plans for them.

They don't kill people. They kill identities. When out-of-work coder Erin Cross lands a dream job at Covenant Analytics, she thinks she's finally escaped a life of instability. The sleek tech firm offers more than just money-it promises purpose: "Protecting global digital truth." But behind the glass walls and wellness slogans lies something far more insidious. After stumbling on corrupted files tied to a woman who no longer exists-T. Madsen-Erin discovers Covenant isn't a consultancy. It's a privatized erasure agency, deleting people not from the world, but from history. Names vanish. Digital footprints disintegrate. Entire lives rewritten or scrubbed from existence. Now Erin is marked for deletion. With only a rogue engineer, a discredited whistleblower, and her younger brother to trust, she must expose the truth-before she becomes its next ghost. But when truth is managed by AI and memory can be rewritten, the real question isn't who's lying. It's who's left to remember.

They aren't just students. They are Assets. Jasmine, Jake, and Ben have spent years balancing their lives as ordinary people with the high-stakes reality of the Command Centre. But when a sudden breakdown at school forces their hidden world into the light, the three survivors must face a past they've spent years trying to escape. With a crucial hearing looming, the team must return to the shadows to find the evidence needed to stop their tormentor once and for all. It was only a few years of their lives, but the scars run deep. Now, they must work together to recover, secure the truth, and prove that they are more than just numbers in a file. The clock is ticking. The mission is personal. And this time, they're fighting for their future.