Jason sniffed at the fall air, moldering mushrooms, caramel apples, and cinnamon in everything. The corn maze looked less fun and more...

They've been speaking to me again. I thought I had gotten over it. The therapy seemed to work. Imagine the pain as words written on a...

Several people crouched around the hole in the earth, turning their heads this way and that. "Well it's certainly unusual," Nancy said. A...

A hundred curfews were broken on the night of September 30th, 1963. As the sun was setting, the class of '64 took matters into their own...

The stone slabs of the mausoleum doors ground against the ground as Simon forced them open. He checked around again, to make sure a night...

Summer scorched the tiny town of Hacksaw. The sun seemed frozen at its peak, roasting anyone and everything under its hateful eye. The...

The halls of Hollow Oak High echoed with the sound of squeaking shoes. Harry Davenport, having snuck in to steal the State Football...

It's not normal for us to feel sorry for our hosts. But here I am, mourning poor Tony Block. I've learned that the word "host" applies to...

Something was getting the coyotes. Normally, Jeb would be happy to find a dead coyote. Not happy, but relieved. It was given you'd lose...

Rory said it must have been a bear. Mark said it didn't matter, that we were screwed no matter what it was. I had a hard time disagreeing...

“This stuff will clean literally anything,” Roger told his prospective new customers. The couple eyed him warily from their couch. Dinner...

The party was in full swing. The stereo was turned up as loud as it would go. The whole cabin smelled like sweat and Aquanet. Janice sat...

Molly left the doctor, as people often do, more unsure and upset than when she’d gone in. She wasn’t going to bother with it at first,...

"This is stupid," Luis said, kicking the tires of his beat up truck. He had driven them out to the boonies at Martin's (fairly rude)...

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...