Weirdfiction Stories

The Overlap: An Anthology of Twisted Realities is a collection of unsettling, intimate stories where ordinary life fractures at the edges. The stories share a thematic spine: the uncanny hiding inside the everyday, the way reality can warp without warning, and the quiet horror of being the only one who notices.

Awoken in disarray, a lone figure is agasedly stranded in an expanse of horror.

Czasami wydaje mi się, że wszystko wokół drży, jakby zaraz miało się rozpaść. Zatrzymuję się wtedy i czekam, aż ściany zaczną pękać, dojdzie do katastrofy, a potem spod ruin zacznie wyzierać jedyna, najwyższa i najprawdziwsza Prawda. Boję się tylko, że będzie czarna jak smoła i wcale nas nie wyzwoli.

Todd and Sidney want to explore a haunted house. Usually Todd is the one who needs to coax Sidney to go with him. But this time, Sidney's the calm one.

While on an expedition to the legendary yet mysterious At-Tabar desert, a group of explorers stumble upon a structure who's origins are far sinister than they appear. Includes an author's note on the story.

When the Pharaoh Aten captures Cadoc and enslaves him, Cadoc must use his knowledge of stonework and fighting instinct to free the slaves and escape.

An amnesiac with no eyes is rescued by the US Coast Guard. Hear his story. Sequel to My Time in Tindalos Word Count: 852

A package from an old friend starts a descent into madness.' Word Count: 843

One night, a young man misses his exit. What follows seems impossible. A highway that abruptly ends. A diner that sits without customers. Children playing games at midnight. A motorcycle gang that seems to haunt the stretches of the road. As he wanders through a landscape of dreams, memories, and strange encounters, his search for a girl becomes something far more dangerous than it should be. A surreal literary fantasy about obsession, loneliness, and what happens when your world loses meaning.

There's a door in my childhood home that was never supposed to be opened.

A former bounty hunter takes on a new job in the Louisiana swamps: to find a rare white orchid said to grow where no one should walk. But what begins as a hunt for a plant becomes a quiet trial of the soul. What happens when you stand before something beautiful-and choose not to take it?

Something grotesque has happened in normally cheery Port Gevaar. A man has been found murdered, horrific wounds forming an occult symbol carved into his body. The only clue to the crime is an ancient stone artifact, dredged from the ocean basin months earlier, leaving authorities stumped. Enter Dr. Nathan Temple: gifted investigator, dedicated curmudgeon, reluctant professor, and relentless chaser of esoteric mysteries. Hannah Demetras is a bright, young grad student trying to escape her own tragic mystery, but upon taking a job with the mercurial Dr. Temple, she is dragged into the dangerous investigation, where the day-lit world of civilization meets a much older, darker realm. Not yet ready to trust each other, Hannah and Temple must square off against strange visions, shadowy figures, and even the police themselves as they race to solve the case before the answers, and the artifact, disappear into the moonlit sea forever. And all while keeping their own secrets under wraps. See the beginning of Temple and Hannah's adventures in Under the Gibbous Moon, as it takes the reader to the edge of civilization, and even beyond, and begins to explore the darker corners of the world humanity has inherited.

Welcome to HollowBrook a picturesque college town with smiling neighbors, scripted lives, and a stage beneath every streetlamp. When Kirius Vulpino enrolls at Orius Victus College Institution, he expects lectures, textbooks, maybe a bit of drama. What he finds instead is a town where nothing is real and everyone is watching. The sky never quite sets. The actors never quite blink. And the roles everyone plays? They're not just performances. They're bindings. Kirius begins to unravel the horrifying truth: HollowBrook isn't a place it's a show, and the audience is something far beyond human. Everyone has a part to play. Fail your role, and the Script rewrites you. But what if Kirius was never meant to follow the script Or is it just him following his role? A town of illusion. A cast of broken souls. A cosmic performance that cannot end. ⸻ CONTENT WARNINGS: Themes of existential dread, manipulation, mental breakdowns, unreality, trauma, and horror.

They had always had their differences, as brothers. Maybe those differences will save them, as a storm, rages up the coast. Is there some unknown killer using the storm, as cover?

The office morale is down, the yogurt is missing, and HR's last hope is a mysterious consultant named Ranger - a man who looks like he fistfights wildlife and smells like secrets. When 15 lucky employees are granted exclusive one-hour sessions in a newly renovated unisex toilet, things start to change. Laughter returns. Sales go up. But Marlon from HR wasn't chosen. And he's starting to wonder... what exactly is going on in that toilet? A darkly funny workplace mystery about cucumbers, plastic of jellybeans, and the things we're better off not knowing.

«Qatnab sits on her throne of books, guarding the last threads of reason. Somewhere beyond the shelves, a single Hen mocks the universe's logic - laying paradoxes instead of eggs, poisoning every truth it touches. Qatnab hunts it through stories, through dreams, through cracks in the world - the cosmic librarian against the living contradiction. A surreal flash-fiction experiment: absurd, darkly funny, and sharp enough to slice your comfort zone. Read carefully. The Hen is still loose.»

Have you ever caught a shadow moving... ...but felt like it didn't belong to anyone? Samuel has. He's been trying to ignore them for years. Shadows. Shapes. Creatures curled up in the darkest corners of the city. Lately, though, he's started to feel like they've begun noticing him too. Maybe he's just losing his mind. Or maybe he's already stumbled into something far bigger than himself.

The island- a weird sci-fi story

A collection of flash fiction works. Each story is a stand-alone, unrelated to the next and always less than 1000 words. A mixture of genres, but most works contain speculative elements. Some stories may contain swearing or mentions of blood/violence - stories containing any triggering themes will have appropriate warnings. ©Hannah Clare 2019