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New Short Story: A Good Death

Stranded during a blizzard, the relationship between a wealthy, reclusive artist and the euthanasia clinic sent to end his life spirals into an intimate and psychologically dangerous obsession as the lingering presence of his dead wife begins to manifest.

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mylittlehorrorbox

Horror Novels Written By Women

theunholyhand

The Man Who Came Back Wrong

Nobody in town said his name after the church bells rang for three nights straight.

They found him sitting in the old house at the edge of the fields, wearing the same black sweater he vanished in, hands folded over the chair like he had been waiting for someone to come home. But his eyes were different. Not empty. Worse than empty. They looked full, like something had crawled inside him and learned how to stare through a human face.

His mother said he used to be gentle. Said he used to hum when he was nervous.

But now he only sits in the dark.

And when the room gets quiet enough, you can hear him whispering to the walls or maybe to himself..

mattydemise

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landsccape

ce-santana

My nightmare fuel but it’s so beautiful. Respect it.

mattydemise

Mirror, 1975.

nevver

The Dawn Patrol, Kevin Cooley

wetheurban

The day you release the fear of being disliked is the day your whole life changes.

nevver

Glimmerati, Claudia Keep

raylangivins

has everyone seen the website that gives you a rothko for your local weather?

addictivecontradiction

ソナチネ, 1993

fuckyeahemerson

“The wise man in the storm prays not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Latest short novel, OPERATION BOOM

Operation Boom is a paranoid, often darkly humorous sci-fi thriller about control, conspiracy, and the cost of being disposable.

Salvador Zapata has nothing left to lose. So when a rising tech company offers him easy money to join a groundbreaking wellness program, he signs up, agreeing to spend one year sealed in a chamber in the name of human optimization.

One year turns into four.

When Sal finally wakes, the world he knew is gone. Los Angeles is cleaner, more orderly. Crime, poverty, and dissent have all but vanished. What was once considered chaos has been replaced by calm, but only because anyone labeled undesirable has been removed off the streets, sent into wellness hibernation.

Beneath the utopian surface, something feels off. Haunted by vivid, near-hallucinatory dreams and flashes of violence he doesn’t understand, Sal begins to suspect the trial was never about wellness at all.

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