Apex Predators
This story contains sensitive content CW: Sexual content and threat of harm The sharp click of Reese’s heels split the bar’s chatter like a rifle crack—first step fired, second step chambered. What froze the…
To all the words we never spoke
This story contains themes or mentions of suicide or self harm. (There was originally 4500 words in this) Dear Stranger, We haven’t met but I’m Theseus King, I live next door to you. You're…
Runaways on Cloudbreaker
The forbidden glade was so high in the uninhabitable reaches of Cloudbreaker that some snow never melted, its secrets held by the mountain, undisturbed by the seasons. A young man, or maybe a grown boy,…
“You were never supposed to remember me”
She was the last to leave the classroom… at least she thought she was… when the door slammed shut behind her. Lights click off, darkness swallowed the room, her scream cuts through silence. She pounded…
Chalk Room
The day the moving truck coughed into the cul‑de‑sac, the old house woke like a dog hearing keys. Pipes clanked, the stair rubbed its aching knee, the front door pulled a draft across the hall…