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Haunted Wet Dreams – Series – Part 3 (of 4)
Content Warning: Horror, supernatural imagery, intense psychological tension, sexualized situations, blood and gore, and parental trauma. Reader discretion advised. The sticky substance expelled from my throat like a torrent. Visions began again. This time I was prepared for them, knowing that although the pain might have felt real they were only dreams and they wouldn’t…
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Artifact from Another Universe – Short Story
Status alert: IVR-2 has been found on planet 12-Suicury g. Subatomic string scans and history logs provide the following timeline. High orbit scans suggest the planet was nonvolatile and non-hostile at the time the bot’s capsule crash landed in a valley on the planet’s surface. Local biological scans revealed that the local fauna discovered the crash…
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Haunted Wet Dreams – Series – Part 2 (of 4)
Content Warning: Horror, supernatural imagery, intense psychological tension, sexualized situations, blood and gore, and parental trauma. Reader discretion advised. “You want to know so badly.” A voice spoke in a soft, distance melody took me under, not to sleep but to another place, between reality and the cosmic ever after. A place like hell and…
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Quulon: Path to Divine Deception – Short Story
“You’re not going to get it. The plague only affects people who believe in It.” said mother, her bangs tickled my face, hanging from the bonnet. She was trying to convince me that the farmers deserved to die, in their fields, in their homes, since believing in the plague was tantamount to blasphemy. “But mother,”…
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Haunted Wet Dreams – Series – Part 1 (of 4)
Content Warning: Horror, supernatural imagery, intense psychological tension, sexualized situations, blood and gore, and parental trauma. Reader discretion advised. Her home base looks ready for my baseball bat. Its solid, sheened thickness is aching to pound her diamond plate. Itching to slip into her glove. I grip my pole and get ready for the pitch.…
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Grave Yard Sale – Short Story
“But we don’t have money for plasma.” The old pre-owned wifey-poo was spouting off about the fuel gauge on the pre-owned, self-driving Oldsmobile flyer. They were both staring at individual paper checks each received that day from the Department of Not Wanting To Work, totaling four thousand smackeroos in unemployment wages. Ernest grabbed a fruit…
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Red Tiger – Short Story
A shrill voice echoed in the mist. The beast had come, like it had so many times before. Windell saw the open-mouthed fear in the tribesmen and stayed eagerly behind them, clutching his Snider rifle as they pushed through the brush, thick jungle leaves over their heads. Leaning down he tried to see through the…
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The Golden Hoard – Short Story
“You’ll end up dead like your daddy.” That’s what grandpa said about the living room. He could have chosen nicer words at least. Nathan’s grandpa wasn’t nice though but he had a lot of cool stuff or “junk” as his mom called it, all throughout the house. The clutter in the living room was at…
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Cutting the Crap – Short Story
“I got the good stuff. The good stuff that’ll peel your eyelids off and strip away your ego. You’re living in a fog. The world is much more colorful than you think. Lift the veil, man. Lift the veil.” Charly was practically hanging off the toilet bowl, reaching under the stall to jingle the mini-fermentation…
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Bugging Out – Short Story
It’s hard being alone all the time. Especially before the giant bugs, when most of the human population wasn’t dead, starving, or being eaten alive, when they only cared about their own lives and were indifferent to everyone else’s. Harry had initially bought the cabin to be away from people and hide out in the…
Karl Kirkpatrick 