Historical
The Ghost Telegrams. Runner-Up in Craft Over Catharsis Challenge.
The excerpt below was discovered in the case files of Doctor Apis Tahuti, psychoanalyst, paranormal investigator, and head of the Department of Psychic Research at Miskatonic University. It is the final entry in a much larger file on The Carrington Event.
By C. Rommial Butler26 days ago in Fiction
Yelling for the Sheep
You think you know the story of the old-country farmer, but there’s a whole other side lost to history. In the late eighteenth century, in a small village seventy miles outside of Valladolid, Spain, there was a young man named Ramon Marin. He had just inherited a small sheep farm from his father, Antonio, who passed away seven weeks ago. His mother, Alma, had died years before, soon after he came of age.
By Gabriel Shames27 days ago in Fiction
Fires of Adversity
Kathryn, Princess of Thuirene, rose early to enjoy the sunrise in peaceful solitude. As much solitude as a member of the royal family ever got, anyway. She’d have little enough of that in the coming days, that every moment without someone demanding her attention was a gift to be savoured.
By Natasja Rose28 days ago in Fiction
Past Lives. Content Warning.
War made for odd couples. To Private Jim Mclellan, Sepp seemed a good man; better at least than some of the monsters he heard stories of deeper into the Reich. Real monsters. This Sepp almost reminded Jim of his uncle; the one from Wisconsin he met a few times at Weddings.
By Matthew J. Fromm29 days ago in Fiction
The Ghost of Hacienda de Nogueras: Forbidden Love and a Mystery to Solve
Hacienda de Nogueras, now converted into a serene cultural center in the heart of Colima, holds within its adobe walls and colonial arches a secret that transcends time. I first arrived on an October evening, as an art student seeking inspiration for my final project. What I didn't imagine was that, in those hallways where tourist visits and cultural workshops now echoed, I would find the traces of a tragic love that still awaits its redemption.
By diego michel29 days ago in Fiction
The Ghost on the Map: My 2,000-Mile Journey to a Paris That Isn’t There
If you type "Paris" into Google Maps, the algorithm will dutifully drop a pin on the City of Light. It will show you the winding Seine, the star-shaped sprawl of the Place de l’Étoile, and enough crêperies to feed a small army.
By George Evan30 days ago in Fiction
The Lantern in the Fog
The fog settled over the village like a blanket soaked in silence. At first it was gentle, wrapping the streets in a quiet hush. But as night deepened, it thickened into something heavier, almost alive, crawling along the cobblestones and slipping into the cracks of every home. It was not the kind of fog that simply blurred the edges of things. This fog carried a chill that touched the marrow, a weight that pressed on the heart, and whispered doubts in voices that sounded eerily familiar.
By Sound and Spiritabout a month ago in Fiction
I'm Ready: Love More to Be More
A CyberPunk De-claration of Love We are in grave crisis as these dark times, testing our souls and will to exist. We, the New Post Bred, have learned from the CyberPunks that we are really just part of the electronic and part human in the savage jungle of life. Thriving in multi-realities known as cyberspace, which exists as an extension of our electric minds or our virtual multiverse of life.
By SAMURAI SAM AND WILD DRAGONSabout a month ago in Fiction
