Stories tagged with "macabre"
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There's Always Tomorrow [Diabolically Villainous Challenge]

My breath a cruel fire in my own throat I stumbled and staggered towards the diner. It stood alone in the moonlight, a hundre…
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Thy Will Be Done (Make Someone's Day Challenge- thebetweenspace)

Mary Baker, mahogany hair pulled into a twist, meticulous evidence gathering lead forensics investigator was currently bored …
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Sweet Sacrifice

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One Fine Day In Hell
The smell of burning flesh woke me with a start. It took a few seconds for the searing pain to subside. I focused my eyes on …
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Flux Gramps and Old Sue

There she is, Dennis thought, then came the chaser of pain and loss, There she was. Tired eyes blinked in the Southern af…
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Excuse me?
“You know you want to…” whispered the knight as they walked through the forest.
Julius’s head jerked as he eyed the bulky…
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Spare a brother?
He couldn’t exactly remember when it started. It was as if his childhood never happened, although childhood for one living in…
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Threshold
A peculiar thing it is, to taste the flesh of another man. Now you may dismiss me as a lunatic or heathen and yet I must ask,...
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Bridgette says, "So long."

I still didn’t have a light for my cigarette, but I didn’t smoke.
Bridgette did.
Well, she used to.The image of it hangin…
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No Bones About It

“Hey, Barry. I heard about your Dad. Tough break.”
“Thanks, Carl. But you know, it was just his time to go. At least he was …