short story
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Short Body Horror Story: “Punctures” – Beneath the Skin Lies the Horror
The turn inside the woods resulted in a delightful surprise: a small village in the mountains with a hotel to rest. The backlight of her phone illuminated the dark, dense room. The time read a few minutes passed the witching hour. She managed to sleep thirty-three minutes—a bit unfair when compared to traveling hours to Continue reading
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Short Body Horror Story: “Hangnail” – When Pain Becomes Pleasure
It started with a sting. A sharp, nagging bite at the edge of my finger. Small, insignificant. Just a hangnail. But the more I touched it, the more it begged to be pulled. A dull ache pulsed beneath my skin, whispering that the only relief was to tear it away. My stomach twisted at the Continue reading
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Spooky Halloween Tale: “The Long Halloween”
I A thick, looming fog cloaked the night, shielding it from the moonlight. At the peak of the witching hour, the streets were void of life but full of faint echoes of running children and skittering candy wrappers. After a long night of tradition, the quietness seemed rewarding. But, down the street, on the second Continue reading
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Short Horror Story: “Human Sashimi” – A Tale of Culinary Terror
Everybody in the town of Marun loved Chef Benny’s sashimi. It wasn’t difficult to please the residents of the small town. They would eat anything, even if it was cooked in a rust-filled pan; true admiration. Foreigners of the town would say this admiration was a mask of obsessive devotion, a side effect of his Continue reading
