Mother's Dress
A police officer knocks on a door and is greeted by a man wearing his mother’s dress, a man who has never felt more alive.
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Tag: psychological horror
Revenance Furlough
A widower keeps his yearly appointment with a government-issued resurrection of his late husband: one night a year, in the barn where they were married
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Revenance Furlough
For the past nine years, Zayan has spent Furlough’s Eve with his dead husband. The face isn’t quite right, but everything else is exactly Jaxel. Their tenth night of Furlough will be just like the others. Won’t it?
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Midnight Eudicot
Something wicked is afoot-foot-footing where no one seeking daylight is a-looking. Has apocalypse forsook me? How does a soul bloom a single—or even sometimes two—of the thorny wicked rose? Isn’t it, though, particularly peculiar, looking down from up below?
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The Orchard In-Between
A grieving man desperate to speak with the dead sets out in search of an orchard that exists only in local legend.
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I Put On My Real Face
A woman receives an unmarked package containing the face she’s always wanted.
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The Light Beyond
A boy wakes in a dark sewer. He’s disoriented, alone, and shin-deep in a black, viscous current beneath a city he doesn’t remember.
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Nyro & The Dark
After the end of everything, the boy stayed hidden from the light. Something waited in the dark—a voice, calm and close, that never asked for anything but quiet. Each night, it returned. Each night, it whispered. And in time, the dark no longer felt empty.
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Where Would You Like Them Left?
“Where would you like them left?” I ask, keeping my voice steady. He doesn’t answer, doesn’t even turn to me. I shift my grip, the weight of them suddenly unbearable as the silence between us stretches, heavy. Suffocating.
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My Hydration Desperation Leads to Ingestation of Urination & Regurgitation
Void Echoes S01E09: Desperate to quench my thirst, I drink from a strange puddle near a peculiar, talkative tree.
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