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Submitted to Contest #319
I've had the urge ever since I can remember. To maime, kill, and torture. Complete strangers I pass on the street spring into my mind as brutally injured and close to dead by my own hand. I have accepted these images as a part of my life. Gave myself a perfectly normal life with an associate degree and a girlfriend of four years. Then they started getting worse. The visions started becoming more then images on one random Tuesday. They became series of impossible imaged. Gnarled and broken bloody limbs mixed with disemboweled stomaches. Muscl...
Submitted to Contest #184
The lights went out just like I knew they would. We had a howler of a storm out there, and I was prepared. I lit an oil lamp with a fresh wick I had installed hours before. I had 3 bottles of lamp oil, 3 oil lamps, and 5 wicks. Which should last me a week. If I'm sparing. Hopefully, I won't be waiting that long, but if so, I'm prepared. I have a glorious wood stove. I will have to be sparing with that, too. By the time I got to the hardware store, they only had 3 cases of bio bricks left. That leaves me with 9 bricks. That'll last me 5 days ...
Submitted to Contest #182
The preface to this story is that it is based on my current life. I am in the middle of a court case and live in fear and paranoia every day. I am also a full time family caregiver. I have a security camera set by the front door which I cannot figure out how to shut the night alarm off on. Thank god it is not mounted, otherwise the alarm would go off every time I leave the house after dark. My paranoia has always been present, this court case has amplified it by tenfold. This story could very well happen and not only to me. Please be safe. ...
Submitted to Contest #150
"Please, don't do it" were the last words uttered out of Kaitlyn Dormier's mouth. This is the story of how she died. We will start at the beginning, the day before she speaks those final words. Kaitlyn woke up like any other day and checked her phone. The time read 6:30am, time to get up for senior classes. Thankfully she was almost through the year and only had a few weeks left of actual courses before graduation. She got out of bed and grabbed her clothes before stumbling to the bathroom for a shower. She came down the stai...
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