How do you explain to your fiancé that there are dark secrets-- even ghosts-- in your family history. And that some of those ghosts are not fully relegated to the past. This is a sad, sweet, tale which echoes a time that many would like to forget ever happened in this country. But it did, and the ghosts of that time live on in many families in many differen...
I wonder why a little, why the gods above me who must be in the know, think so little of me, they allow you to go. -- Cole Porter I. The year before the Shogun banished the foreign missionaries from his lands, sending them back to Portugal, or whatever hell they had once arisen from, something queer happened. Far away in the unfashionable north, in a lo...
Part One, In Search Samuel walked up the stairs and found himself in the corridor to the infamous room 318. Of all the hair-brained ideas that he had come up with, this one had to be the worst. He was too old to be taking risks like this. That sort of thing was for teenagers, not for men in their thirties. Yet here he was. "All I have to do is walk into th...
Each story is exactly 50 words long. The titles do not count in the word total. * Devil's Shit List Three friends die and go to Hell. Roy and Jim have to sleep with two ugly hags. "Why," they ask. "Because you're on my shit list," the Devil said. They then see Tony sleeping with Heidi Klum? "What's that about?" they say. The devil replies, "She's on my sh...
"I've got a task on my hands selling that place," Keith said, "We should never have taken it on." I looked across at him as he sat behind his desk. "Why, is there something wrong with it?" He looked back at me seated at my desk opposite him. He seemed surprised and asked, "Haven't you heard the story, everybody else has?" We were at work in the offices of...
Hello Readers! This is Part Two of a Six-Part story. All six parts are written and will be posted in order. It takes place in the same universe as my "Sultanah" series, but you don't need to read any of that to understand this story (but you really should read it). In Part 1, Kedi was sold into slavery along with a member of a rival tribe, Cilek, but the sla...
I'm a ghost hunter and have been on many ghost hunts. The old hospital described in the story had events as described in an old hospital a few miles from where I live. The evidence described is real. ***** Emily Haughton got a call from Justin Regis who she went to school with. Both Justin and Emily were seniors in John Tyler High School in Tyler, Texas. T...
"My children, beware of the ancient graveyard. It appears out of nowhere and claims the lives of many." - Old Woman Jacobina Episode 1: The Grave Digger Midnight, October 20, 2018, the small countryside town of Charleston, Michigan, USA Melanie Arnott was walking home from her workplace Ringwald's Grocery, a small independent grocery. Her shift just en...
I was doing nothing special when the conjuration began to come through from the old church of St James the Least, so I popped over to see what was going on. Sure enough, there was the pastor all dressed up in a long white robe, standing inside a pentacle and intoning the usual El + Elohim + Sabaoth + Adonay + Tetragrammaton + Saday ... And Blah Blah Fishca...
It was night time at the old hotel in the ghost town. The Ghost Gal crew was the only people in the hotel that had been restored by the new owner. The owner claims it is haunted by the spirits of the old miners and prostitutes who were murdered in the building. The mine collapsed due to an angry miner who decided to take all the workers life. In all he murde...