Clark sighed in defeat. He pushed his glasses onto the top of his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. He didn’t know what was gazing...

The research station had only grown smaller as the team's month-long expedition reached its midpoint. There were stupid arguments about...

Dearest Editor, Forgery is such an ugly word, don't you think? I can be accused of many things, but I don't believe forgery should be...

Campus was quiet, Fall Break in full swing. The yards of the frat houses lousy with red cups were still. The winding road that branched...

It's said that Old Man Jodie killed The Beast in the summer of '57. He was already an old man then and so to my teenage eyes some years...

Lola had been wearing the sling for too long. Her co-workers had started to say things like, "Poor thing. It's still not healed?" and...

Tracy wove her car through the other vehicles on the road. She wouldn't, couldn't, be late. Of course her wife was sick and their son...

A shaking finger set the metronome in motion. It lazily slung itself from side to side. "I think this will go better," Dr. Wilkes said to...

The first sighting occurred just after sundown. Betty Alvarez, 78, was walking with her caretaker, Joseph Cross, 24, when Betty stopped,...

The smell of cow patties and the sick tang of blood told Lara it had happened again. The last few stars in the sky were washed away by...

Us Shepherds gathered just before dawn. Five of us total, all anonymous. Our handler, who was antsy to get back into the SUV and leave us...

(photo via Pinterest) Walter’s Wanting came fairly late in life. As far as Wanting’s go, it was quiet and unobtrusive, much like him. He...

“Am I supposed to be feeling something?” Fletcher looked down to his hand and turned it over. He and Kyran were in the Edgefield forest,...

Mark sat patiently in the waiting room, back straight, looking ahead with what he hoped was a pleasant expression. A stack of magazines...

I drunkenly regarded a painting in the hall. Something ghastly, a pile of shapes that looked to me like corpses. Maybe they were...

We wish we could say they deserve it. They won’t be the first to meet this fate, nor the last. The hare doesn’t deserve the fox’s teeth...

Yor'Sothor looked dapper. Or as dapper as a writhing collection of tentacles and eyes squeezed into a waistcoat could be. I hated myself...

The cicadas were screaming in a fever pitch. Without anything else to fight their song, they just seemed to sing louder. I wanted to...

The letters and words on Maisie’s screen looked like they were vibrating. Taking off her glasses for a moment, she rubbed her eyes, the...

We had given up rowing what felt like months ago. Our little boat was going to float wherever it wanted. Wherever they wanted it to go....