My Dad died when I was ten. I was too young to understand what was happening. All I can remember was that my mum had to rush to the hospital and that my older brother was left to take care of me. I loved him, he being another ten years older than me meant that he was an adult and I always felt privileged to spend time with him. Read more »
Posts Categorized: Short Stories
Buyer Beware
Trying to find something for your significant other is hard. You can go for the easy win and get some jewellery and flowers, but that’s not going earn you any brownie points. Though, it won’t cause the evening to devolve into silence and arguing.
Uncle Jack Says Not to Tell Tales
I’m unsure when I awoke, but it was the overbearing feeling of claustrophobia that returned me to consciousness. I struggled against my bindings. The dirty cloth jammed into my throat tasted bitter. I heaved, my breaths cut short by the makeshift gag. Read more »
Police Corruption: This is my confession
I am a cop, and I am a woman. That shouldn’t be a big deal nowadays, but unfortunately, I am a small town cop, and a Sheriff’s daughter. Read more »
Schrödinger’s Patient
I became an EMT to help people. I was never great with anything intellectual, but something about the adrenaline running through my veins switches my head into a different mode, it’s like I’m on autopilot, an out of body experience. I flew through my basic training, only five weeks before I was out on call. I was shocked at how little time it took them to get me out there. But to be honest, there’s a large need for EMTs in our state, it’s not a job people stay in for long. Read more »
My Evil Twin Brother
An out of body experience is defined as a sensation of being outside one’s body, typically of floating and being able to observe oneself from a distance. This is the best way I can describe the feeling I had when my brother misbehaved. As if I was in obscurity, unattached to the world, an observer, unable to help him. Read more »
My Dad’s Halloween Story
Halloween is over, however, I thought I’d relay this story, a story my Dad told me. He retold the story many times over the years, each time a little different to the time before, as with any tale. He stopped telling me the story when I became a teenager. That is a long time ago, just thinking about it makes me feel old. Don’t think for a second, I believed it. Well, not until tonight anyway. Read more »
The Lighthouse Boy
I saw her standing in front of the open window, her nightgown blowing in the wind, silhouetted by the moonlight. Read more »
Last Train to Upminster
The station was already deserted, the daily commute over hours ago. The shops that would have been bustling during the day, locked up tight and dark. The temperature dropped the lower I descended into the East Ham station. Read more »
Mr Wednesday
When I walked into the living room and saw my daughter sitting cross-legged playing, I allowed myself a smile; this was not something I’d seen before. She picked up one of the little figurines and placed it in front of her playmate. Read more »
Message Recieved
“You’re going to die tonight!”
That is a text message you can take several different ways. You can panic, especially if it was from an unknown number. You can scoff at it. Or you can ignore it. Read more »
Do You Want to See a Dead Body?
My uncle died recently.
Our family is close, closer than usual in a day of social media and distances pulling apart fragile relationships so all that’s left is a phone call on holidays and birthdays. Read more »
Please Forgive Me: An Act of Charity
I’m a people watcher; a hobby that lends itself to a barista such as me. The coffee shop I run looks out on main street, a typical urban carriageway; large glass windows frame the human traffic passing. It was from here that I watched a daily ritual performed by a regular customer, just a sweet bit of charity, but now I wish I hadn’t. Read more »
DayZ: Encounter in Green House
This has just happened, I want to get this down as quick as possible, while it is fresh in my mind. Read more »
Tempting Fate: A Halloween Story
A couple of friends set out in search of an urban legend. But find out that on All Hallows Eve, it’s best not to tempt fate. Read more »
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Mile Marker 65
It’s been 72 hours since I last saw my brother Read more »
As The Lights Went Out
Approaching home, walking the dogs, the street lights went out…
How I Developed Insomnia: The Man with the Camera
A woman finishes work late, encounters a man with a camera, and now she can’t sleep.
It’s Happening Again…
It’s 10:30am, I have a class in thirty minutes, my head still hurts from the copious amounts of drink I’d imbibed the night before. I’m in my underwear, in front of my PC, checking my emails, when I hear shuffling from my front door. *** Wait, I think I need to rewind a bit. That… Read more »
It’s Time
A man is awoken from sleep by an entity that wants him to go downstairs, there’s someone waiting.
Drinking Games
Six friends celebrate an eighteenth birthday party. All is going well, until a drinking game goes wrong.
I Don’t Want to Die Without Anybody Knowing
A boy’s mother survives an almost fatal car accident, as she begins to recover she relapses.
I’ll Make Him Pay!
Arnold Hinsky is released from prison on a technicality, someone doesn’t like this and wants to make him pay!
Super Dank
Jake’s all out of weed, he settles for what he can get on a Friday night and a glimpse of a dimension not far from our own takes over.
Moderated
A new employee for a popular video streaming website is driven to the edge of sanity by the videos he’s required to vet. Befriended by Jason, he’s pulled deeper into the world of the moderator.