Stories tagged “haunting”
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Ghost Story
When I wake up, she’s sitting on the edge of the bed. Same short skirt and fuck me pumps. Same black eye and trickle of blood. Same look of resigned defeat. Same silent tears. I decide to try something different this time. I move over and sit nex...
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A Lingering Presence
When he woke up beside me this morning he rushed out the door for work without even kissing my photograph on the nightstand. I tried to slide him his toothbrush as he was washing his face in the bathroom, but he doesn’t seem to notice things like tha...
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The Barn
It stood alone. Empty. Abandoned. Since the original owners had vanished, many had tried to live on the old farm. Those that survived never spoke of what they saw in the few days, sometimes the few hours, that they lived there. The house, itself, was f...
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Pornography
He was done with the pictures of luscious young women he had printed out that night. He hid it under his bed, knowing his mother would not look there. The next morning, he woke up, showered, brushed his teeth. At school, he reached into his backpack to...
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Haunt 1
They make a lot of noise, the ghosts here. I’d daresay I have grown to tolerate it, but t’is not true. Some nights it is the sound of laughter—a threatening laughter. Others, I hear grinding metallic squeals. Thus, I bolt awake and trembl...
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Dreaming of Flying Once More
The sky was beautiful. Emma’s lips moved soundlessly as she gazed out at the sight before her eyes. A gentle wind caressed her cheeks softly. Her toes danced on the fine line between life and death, as she managed to keep her balance. Emma yawned...
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Daniels Goodbye II (2012)
You made me weak where I once had strengths years later still bring me to my knees a slap to the face constantly a message taunting me just a hello you say its more than just that today its you reaching out to break my life as you did years before You ...
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Daniels Goodbye I (part2 Nov 2011)
I once wrote poems full of love hope and joy but now its just all pain You left me the first time broken hearted you left me this last time a broken soul I am empty now nothing but I moved on and hoped to grow The light has left me again I Can not ge...
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Daniels Goodbye I (part1 Nov 2011)
Every so often my mind gets the best of me It shows the worst of me nothing can erase what is said nothing can take the pain of what I hear. Its all me, I am my own enemy Like a razor in my ear Piercing to my soul and nothing is left standing but dark...
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Alone
She was alone. Alone as she hadn’t been for over ten years. Alone as the last time they came. They were going to come again. She knew it, down to her very bones she knew they were coming. This time they weren’t going to stop at talking. She...