Homebeforedarkcontest Stories

Lucy Anderson is a young 27 year old Hairdresser that has been abused by her husband Mark for 3 years. When he takes his anger out on her too far one night, her only result to stop it from happening, is by going to the police and be open on what they will need to do in order to not let it happen again as well as getting herself the strength that she needs to move on.

A man who writes obituaries for a living ponders a great question, but an ironic one at that.

What happens when the man she looks up to turns out to be the monster under her bed? #HomeBeforeDarkContest

Have you ever felt emptiness? A space that seems to exist within yourself. It starts small. A little hole at the center of your being. You don't see it forming because it's too small. It's microscopic at first. Slowly though the emptiness grows. shifting into all-consuming darkness that eats away at your soul until your entire being is consumed. That's exactly what this town will do to you if you don't get out. That's precisely what happened to Amy Grace. The darkness consumed her. And then she was just gone.

(#HomeBeforeDarkContest)Hunter Smith lives in a small close minded town just out side a big city. When that cities pride parade starts up, people visit his tiny town not knowing how the people take the LGBTQ community. Can Aiden Murphy help show Hunter his true self?

Being an orphan living in the streets is not an easy task especially with all the evil going on in the world at the moment. It is like a murder apocalypse. Since Mr. Gregory Wilson the current or should I say ex-mayor of this city decided it was a good idea to copy the purge movie. Well, let's just say he got lynched first. When this all began, I wanted to participate and get revenge on my family members who had kicked me out to fend for myself... and I did. But the hard thing is that i had managed to start a successful million dollar business and this purge is targeting the higher class people but luckily i had just begun and i am under their radar and for all those people wondering who i got my revenge on and how I did or did not survive the purge- well lets just say you are going to read and find out.

Standing Up for a fellow classmate.

A teacher's battle to help students that didn't know the first thing about helping themselves.

Isabelle, young and curious of her friend. Someone who stayed mysterious and she was led on by someone she thought was a close friend of his

The Truth

A college student details how he brought a criminal to justice without even raising a finger.

This is the journal of Ezra Keen. He has something to say. And hopefully, it will set him free. This work is for the Home Before Dark writing contest - that in mind this entire writing is completely fictional and is not based on true events. Let me know what you think in the comments below!

Limited to 500 Words Taught to be dismissive of those less fortunate from a young age, born into a rich family with influence across Europe, Divus one day discovers that all is not as it seems. He uncovers from a letter that all that is his actually belongs to his indentured servant, Filia. Now, he must decide whether or not he will conceal the truth and enable his lavish lifestyle, or bring justice to the innocent slave girl and offer her information that will grant her authority over the manor.

In a small town, young people disappear without a trace. There are a few bones on the outskirts of the city. When the phone rang late at night and a whoy replied that he should search his Friends locker, I found a trace of the missing children. I will find the truth.

#homebeforedarkcontest entry A 500 word short story about standing up to the truth of death, loss, and abuse, and standing beside the person you love most of all. An emotionally abusive father and an opioid addicted brother, both absent for the death of her mother; a young woman must confront the truth that she has to do it alone and stand up to the reality of loss in her own way.

That chilling feeling came over me again last night after my best friend's grandmother went missing. It isn't a coincidence though. Every full moon they end up vanishing and sometimes even forgotten over time. Me though, I remember every last disappearences it isn't just normal for an elderly group of men and women to up and leave there life's behind. Something is wrong and I can feel the chills run up my spine with every thought of the scenarios that could've taken place. There's something going on... The Elders Disappearences is not something that should be left unnoticed!

Two brothers foster a secret. One is imprisoned for it, and the other is at fault. A Home Before Dark contest entry. Photo by Rendiansyah Nugroho on Unsplash.

A jealous English teacher squashes teenage creativity.

Mackie is 15 years old. She doesn't have a mother and no one knows where she came from. The man whom Mackie lives with says that he's her brother but when he is murdered and no one can explain his death Mackie has to find the killer. Before they kill her.

Megan is a transgender male to female. Really bad things happened to her through out her life. She want's the truth to come out, but everyone continues to bury the dark ugly truth. Or at least, they tried.