3rd person PoV Looking Through Another Kidnapped Pair Of Eyes In Arnold’s defence, it was perfectly reasonable to assume this person was affiliated with the university and the ‘research project’ had been properly vetted…
horror Don’t Trust Every Ritual You Read On The Internet Emily hugged her knees to her chin and stared at her laptop. She could recite the ritual by now, but she still couldn’t figure out what went wrong. “I didn’t mean to…”
horror A Tragic Premature Physical Meet [My body is not yet ready to be loved.] Jacob read the message again. His brow furrowed. He rubbed the back of his head. Low self-esteem, maybe? Oh dear...
horror Seeing What Lingers Via Afterimages It was a vital step in finding ghosts, but Alfred had never gotten used to staring directly at a bright light.
horror A Fascinating And Dangerous Psychological Case Study Isaac knew it was projection making the brain look ominous; you couldn’t guess the contents of a mind from its appearance. That's why the NeuroLink Delver was necessary.
horror A Bout Of Unprecedented Sleepwalking And Nothing More “My life is a lie. And I’m winning.” That’s what the note said. And it certainly looks like my handwriting. I don’t understand…
horror The Owner Of The Simmons Toyshop Stanley was pleased to be left Mr Simmons’s old toy shop. He had so many plans for the place…
horror Don't Feed The Well “Money makes the world go wrong.” That’s what granddad always used to say. I didn’t understand until after he died…
horror Payment For Greed “Excuse me, did you drop this?” I nearly jump out of my skin. Spinning to look behind me, where I’m CERTAIN there was nobody a moment ago.
fantasy An Enticing Unwitting Violet Doom The meteorite painted the night sky a dazzling violet, shining like a gift from the heavens. But what it carried was death incarnate.
urban fantasy Wearing Your Heart On Your Back Cathy wasn’t surprised that her brother Carl ignored her calls for weeks. But she was surprised, and immediately concerned, when HE then called HER.
urban fantasy Vivvy And Friends Redux Why was someone trying so hard to recover all the copies of a small indy stop-motion film based on an obscure old children’s cartoon?
scifi A Flight Curtailed Last checks before launch. Careful now, if this goes wrong we’re all in for it…
horror Heard Through Itching Bones If Maggie had been asked what she was doing at The Dig, she probably would’ve mumbled something about looking for work. But nobody asked. There was no need. They understood.
horror A Jesterly Welcome I always scoffed at stories which start with people stranded in the middle of nowhere without shelter or phone signal. Guess the joke’s on me…
urban fantasy Regression To Norm Norman Smith had been voted the most boring person at every school he’d attended, which was particularly impressive given none of them had ever put “most boring” on the list of categories to vote for.
urban fantasy Direct To The End Of The Line Why don’t I remember getting on this train? I, I don’t think I normally take the train home… and why haven’t we reached a station?
horror Out Fishing For Urban Sharks I slither from my burrow and taste the air. Ah, perfect hunting weather. But first, I should put my Guise on. What kind of predators do I want to eat today?
horror Gwen, Tell Me, Would You Rather... Gwen wasn’t pleased to be given some random new employee to “mentor”, even before whoever has her number started acting strange…
scifi One-Point-Six To Twelve One-point six faces glared reproachfully from the dark corners of his improvised bunker. Twelve faces wept behind them. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry…”
creepy A Capable Princess Crew The trip started so well, but now… what a way to turn thirteen. At least I’m not alone.
epistolary Testing defenceBot27 Current configurations state “acceptable harm: Lethal”. This setting requires confirmation by an administrator level user or above…
3rd person PoV Must Be Stress It started with constant, nagging headaches. A warning sign which is all too easy to ignore…
3rd person PoV Cutting Away The Kiss Of Death “Do you have another plan? ANY idea other than putting a bullet in my head right now? Then shut up and do it.”
3rd person PoV The Unrepentant Rift Tearer With an alien force devouring all matter in its path, humanity was desperate enough to try anything. Even unleashing the last reality-destroying threat they’d only just managed to contain.
