Stories tagged with "eerie"

  • Puzzles in the Castle in the Air [pt. 2] Inspired by text

    Jacques stood and stared, attempting to locate the source of the strange light, which appeared to come from everywhere and no…

  • Dead Whispers Inspired by text

    Its a cold day at the cemetary. The patent leather on my shoes is streaked with the squish of mud underfoot and my socks are …

  • Song of the Swamp

    They called him the Musician.

    Hunched over a Hammond organ in a murky mausolean grotto, surrounded by bayou and a spiked wro…

  • Darkhall

    In the otherwise pitch blackness, Chimron could only see by the white sparks spitting from the exposed wire hanging down from…

  • Now the Vault Holds More Than Money Inspired by text

    The jolt of metal on metal penetrated the eerily quiet atmosphere like a hot knife through butter. Frozen butter, at that.

    L…

  • The Signs That Told Inspired by a photo

    “Lisa, I’m telling you, that was all just a coincidence.”

    “No Brian, it wasn’t!”

    “Lisa, chill out. That stuff is behind u…

  • The Sound of Terror Inspired by a photo

    It’s surprisingly warm ouside tonight.
    There aren’t really words to describe the terror, hate, anxiety I feel right now.
    The …

  • Flying Lessons (4) Inspired by text

    She had been just eighteen when she met him in FSU, still figuring out the world, still passionate about everything. He’d per…

  • Lonely Relics Inspired by text

    “Do you feel that?”

    “Feel what?”

    “That energy. That tingling on your arms.”

    I didn’t respond. Yvette had always been into …

  • The Land of Constant Dreaming

    How do I rouse myself from this land of constant dreaming? Try as I might, I can never completely catch something solid to ho…