Stories

Prompts throughout the year

A winter's night, a piano bar, and a troubled relationship...

My entry for the Sub-Genre Rewrite the Prompt Challenge. Mystery Noir/Hard-Boiled. A hardened and weary detective sees a lady in over her head and the only spark of good left in his soul compels him to intervene.

Set during the events of Omen II, I wanted to offer an alternate reality for Damian Thorn and his cousin, Mark Thorn. This is not a horror story despite the subject matter.

Zane is in the closet with only his best friend knowing about his secret until someone new shows up. The only problem is that this person brings his problems with him and has Zane help him. Will they come out unscathed in the end?

Crossing the street brings back Kyle's memories of his sexual past and the car accident it lead to that landed him in prison. Believing he had made amends and reformed himself, God was not done with him yet.

A lone woman wakes up in an unknown environment. She finds herself in some kind of testing facility. She diesn't know why shes there. She can't even remember her identity. Forced into a gauntlet of deathly, twisted science, will she make it out alive? Or will a major discovery change everything?

Mysterious Dr. Pettit has done it before, but things went awry. All he needs is a sponsor - and a safe place - to try his experiments again. Will his 'program' work this time? Will his 'subjects' experience the hoped for benefits? What side affects will come to the fore in 'Second Adolescence'?

When Jeff's dad hires a new hand for the ranch, Jeff thinks he may have just found the missing link in his life.

"The child lay in his bed, curled up into a fetal position as he stared at the door across from him. It wasn't a door. It was a giant flab of flesh, glowing like when you put a flashlight under your hand, and breathing like a lung. It breathed slowly, filling with air and then flattening out. Then it breathed again. The boy was too scared to close his eyes, so he stared at the door that never left his room. It had been there for months. Haunting the child. Traumatizing him."

When a father's son goes missing, he has to venture into a world of nonsense and horror to bring him back.