Stories

The world of physical abuse is a dark place, filled with pain, depression, confusion and emotion. Often we don't understand why people seem to remain in these abusive, destructive relationships for so long.

This story seeks to see things through their eyes.

Eat up, America!

Benji Usher thinks Halloween should last for a month. Not everyone wants to join in ...

14-year-old Aiden Desmond is used to knowing things others don't. He knows about things from books his friends don’t read, things on tests in higher grades, things that happen that adults don’t talk about, and about bad days on a person's personal calendar, days when things happened, that divided their life into "Before" and "After."

But that didn’t prepare him for things like this. Two secrets, two radical shifts in what he knew. Aiden is used to knowing things others don't, but to get used to these things, he needs answers.

Winner of the Halloween Story Contest Bonfires and ghost stories go hand in hand, like Halloween and hauntings. Ollie's friends are telling tales, and they want to hear a real, scary story. Ollie gives them exactly what they ask for.

My response for prompt number 444: Would you, please, go to sleep? I tried to do something different for this one, and it's my first time responding to a prompt! It was great fun!

Jared Dells has a highly successful career in one of the most dangerous professions that few people even know exists. He knows what few people know: Vampires exist, and they hunt humans for their food. While the vampires hunt humans, Jared hunts them, earning a quite comfortable life with the bounties put on them by the secret Foundation. Jared enjoys a life turning the tables on the hunter, but can he survive when the Vampires decide to hunt the Vampire Hunter?

When a teen boy is targeted by a group of vampire for a feast of blood, they will discover that it was a mistake to leave him for dead. Now crossed over into darkness himself, 'Cylance' will do all he can to find his killers and exact his revenge. But can he do it before the dark powers within consume him completely? Or will he succumb to the evil and ultimately become what he despises most?

For almost a whole day, Jonah doesn’t really believe it. This isn’t the way people die. Not in real life. Not in suburban Greater London. People get hit by buses, they die in car crashes, they get sick—cancer, liver failure, heart disease. They don’t get stabbed walking home from a party with their lover.

New bartender, Lane Hardy, has come to work at The Rainbow Beret, a gay bar outside of Denver. Regular customer Brendan McCoy is immediately attracted to his odd nature and appearance. But the more he gets to know Lane the more he senses the young man is on the run - from what he doesn't know, and what he doesn't know could kill him.