A poor young man resorts to taking on odd jobs to pay off his sister's medical bills and ends up in a cramped room with a creepy mannequin and a single instruction: "KEEP THE TALISMAN ON ITS FOREHEAD." Easier said than done, especially when the mannequin is after your heart.

Back story of banshees. A story created for my competition.

They wanted to live a thousand lives. They wished it upon the monkey's paw, and now, they must pay the price. Sent to live the deaths of a thousand different people, this time, they've become Mina, a miserable woman sent on a confusing job to the abandoned shrine up north, armed with only her ...

Got a call from his friend in the middle of the night to come help him. Now Nathan is driving down strange country backroads, unsure of where his friend is leading him.

In a quiet village, what begins as a childish quarrel over a bicycle unravels into something far darker. At the edge of a crystal-clear lake, where a legendary mermaid returns lost objects to the townsfolk, rumors spread of vanishings, pagan sects, and rituals stained with blood. When a desperate...

Yukari, a character in a story, gains self conscious. Having died as a villain with no redeeming qualities, Yukari seeks a way to take her life back into her own hands. the Final Chapter in my Novel Back and Forth, this short story is a stand alone narrative that can be read on its own.

When a man goes for a solo hike for beginners, he quickly finds himself getting lost. Eventually stumbling upon a clearing in the forest, his high hopes about setting up a camp site lower when he finds the abandoned remains of another hiker's tent, and strange noises coming from the surrounding w...

They call me an omen. A warning. A monster. They don’t know the truth. Point Pleasant is my city, and I protect it. I watch from the rooftops, red eyes glowing in the night, waiting for the next disaster to strike. But no matter how many people I save, they still fear me. And now he's ba...

It is time for the Wolf Witch’s story to be told.

The burning cold makes monsters out of us all.