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Nana’s banana bread turned my parents inside out
Paranormal HorrorUnder 2000 WordsNarrated9m1623w

Nana’s banana bread turned my parents inside out

Nana's baked goods always brought warmth and happiness, but this time they left something far more horrifying behind.

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No One Is Taking Me Seriously
Psychological HorrorUnder 1000 Words4m778w

No One Is Taking Me Seriously

A seemingly harmless bug bite begins behaving in ways no doctor can explain.

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The mask killed you not I
Paranormal HorrorUnder 2000 WordsNarratable9m1733w

The mask killed you not I

A mysterious mask follows a grieving couple wherever they try to escape it.

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The story of why I have no bones
Psychological HorrorUnder 2000 WordsNarratable9m1695w

The story of why I have no bones

A childhood experiment leaves one patient trapped in a body that can no longer support itself.

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Carved
Psychological Horror2000+ WordsNarratable15m2861w

Carved

A mysterious artist promises to transform Nyssa into the beautiful person she has always wanted to be, but beauty comes with a price.

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Does Anyone Know Anything About the McKriss Abattoir?
Creature Horror5000+ Words26m5102w

Does Anyone Know Anything About the McKriss Abattoir?

He went into the abandoned abattoir on a dare. He came back hungry.

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My Aunt Collected People's Last Moments, and Now I Think She's Haunting Me
Paranormal HorrorUnder 2000 Words9m1628w

My Aunt Collected People's Last Moments, and Now I Think She's Haunting Me

My aunt left behind tapes of dying strangers. Now something from those recordings may have followed me home.

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There Is Something Inside of Me, Keeping Me in My Apartment
Paranormal HorrorUnder 2000 Words12m2307w

There Is Something Inside of Me, Keeping Me in My Apartment

Every night, something else seems to take control of his life... and he has no idea what happens while he's gone.

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Fully Charged
True HorrorUnder 2000 Words7m1366w

Fully Charged

When the factory lights go out, the workers discover something inside them that was never meant to glow.

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Public Safety Notice
Psychological Horror2000+ Words15m2991w

Public Safety Notice

A harmless emergency alert becomes something far worse when people discover their bodies aren't entirely under their control.

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Did You Know Bones Can Sing?
Psychological Horror5000+ WordsNarratable33m6510w

Did You Know Bones Can Sing?

A routine medical screening uncovers a rare condition that causes one man's bones to emit strange radio signals. When researchers tune in, they hear something that was never meant to…

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I'm gay, and I'm going into cardiac arrest.
Creature HorrorUnder 1000 Words5m991w

I'm gay, and I'm going into cardiac arrest.

A young athlete's heart emergency leads to an unexpected connection, but a hospital procedure reveals a horrifying hidden truth.

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My torture victim refuses to die
Creature HorrorUnder 1000 Words4m767w

My torture victim refuses to die

A seasoned killer encounters a victim unlike anyone before, as a night of violence turns into an impossible psychological battle.

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Despite doing my best to keep my 5 year old son away from anything he could hurt himself with, to my horror I found him digging around his bleeding ear with a pair of tweezers.
Creature Horror2 Sentence Horror1m24w

Despite doing my best to keep my 5 year old son away from anything he could hurt himself with, to my horror I found him digging around his bleeding ear with a pair of tweezers.

It started with tweezers. It ended with a nightmare.

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'It doesn't matter what I'm convicted of after this, you all will use my finding', the researcher sneered from the podium at his appalled audience.
Psychological Horror2 Sentence Horror1m23w

'It doesn't matter what I'm convicted of after this, you all will use my finding', the researcher sneered from the podium at his appalled audience.

His experiment worked. That's what terrified everyone.

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