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Two hours away, John sat on his front porch with a coffee in his left hand, his cell phone laying on the table next to his chair. It had been two days since he heard from Greg and Laura and he was starting to worry. He knew how excited they had been to move into their new house and Greg was supposed to call him once they got there but now there was nothing but radio silence and it did not feel ri…
*I combined both parts into part one* It was going to be our first house. We had saved for the past five years to put a down payment on the perfect place. It had 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms, a front porch, and a fenced-in backyard. We drove up with a trailer packed with all our belongings, excitement bubbling over as we parked in the driveway ready to start our new lives together. We walked insid…
*I put my muse on a time-out but she escaped...another short story* The tension in the house had been building over the past couple of weeks leading up to this moment. Alice had just come home from working another long 12 hour shift at the hospital to find the sink full of dishes yet again. There were empty chip bags and pop cans scattered across the counters and crumbs everywhere. She sighed, a…
Leo approached the cage, the clip board tightly in his grasp. The whimpers suddenly stopped and went from sounding like a wounded animal to that of a child crying. He frantically flipped through the other pages hoping to learn more about what was making the noise. His eyes scanned down as certain words popped out - mimics and influences, reads the mind. Do not be fooled by it. He decides that per…
“You are nothing but a loser” the tallest of the bullies spat out as he shoved Leo hard sending him across the corridor and into the lockers on the other side. Thomas was bigger than most of the other kids in the school and he knew it. Even some of the teachers were afraid to confront him so he got away with torturing the other students and they tolerated his disrespect when he was in class. Leo'…
The shadows did not try to stop them, did not rise up again, they simply retreated to the surrounding woods and watched silently as the boys left, holding onto the memory of the stitch. The boys returned home with the soup for their mother blissfully unaware that one day they would be fighting for their very own soul, or at least for Noah's. As the days passed by Noah began to change but was so…