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Nightly Echoes
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Ongoing, First published Aug 28, 2025
Mature
Stories to haunt your dreams and stir your imagination.

A compilation of shorts, ranging from horrors that keep you up at night, to peaceful worlds meant to draw you in and make you dream.

1. Split Seconds - A risky theft, a ticking watch, and a secret that could cost everything.

2. A Fractured Mind - A routine morning turns terrifying as a mother faces a mounting threat at home, and the world around her feels more and more unstable.

3. Her Dreadful Calls - The whispers of a mother long gone invade the night, blurring reality and terror.

4. End of the Hall - Moving into a new apartment should have been simple, but soon every familiar face feels distant, every hallway feels narrower, and something in the building watches too closely.

5. For Whoever Finds This - In a world devastated by the Rots, a dying man writes his final words, torn between grief for his lost wife and the desperate struggle to hold on to hope.

6. Crumb-words - Childlike words and scribbles reveal the solitary musings of a timeless guardian learning the weight of letters, books, and loneliness.
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1 part Complete Mature

Need a ghost story for around the campfire? Or just like being spooked while curled up on the sofa in the comfort of your own home? Delve into the depths of horror with this Compendium of six short scary stories. 1. Nightly Routine A Mother's love knows no bounds when it comes to comforting her child. 2. Rude Awakening When a knock on the door startles someone from a drunken slumber, is it visions brought on by the liquor or something more sinister? 3. The Second Room in the Basement Breaking into an abandoned house and claiming it as their own, this group of teenagers get a shock when faced with something sinister lurking in the basement. 4. Left or Right? Making the right choice is never easy, especially when both choices lead to the loss of a loved one. 5. Toy Box When a daughter has a terrifying experience, a repressed memory resurfaces. 6. Shirley Pool A true ghost story? Or a work of fiction to scare a group of kids wanting to go camping. Read until the end, follow the clue and decide for yourself. All stories written by myself.