paranormal

  • The Circle

    The dirt driveway sneaked around and up to the Marrow farm. Officer Ravencroft drove up surveying the half rotten chicken coop and worn farmhouse. He slammed his patrol car door. Old Man Marrow watched the cop watching his farm.Without a word Lucan Marrow climbed down from his lopsided porch and headed for the circle.Ravencroft followed.

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  • Welcome Home dear

    Although I couldn’t see, something told me I wasn’t alone in the cellar. This was my cellar, the place for my taters and rutabaga. There were shelves where I put up my peaches, my pickled watermelon, and my mama’s special apple butter. This is my cellar and I love its cool quiet walls.I can’t see

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  • “For the love of God stop!” Flor yelled from the bathroom.Stephen looked up from The Fall Of the House of Usher and scowled. The only thing he hated more than twelve year old girls were loud twelve year old girls. The TV’s volume increased.Shrouded in a white towels and fragrant steam, Flor swung open the

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  • Ready, Pumpkin

    “Do you want a story?”Rhynn shook her head. Pink plastic butterflies clipped to her pigtails swung.“Do you want three stories?” Annie asked.The pink butterflies swung vigorously.“What do you want from, Nana, pumpkin?”Pursing her lips, Rhynn cocked her head to one side. Anne leaned back in the glider and fished through her craft bag. She fingered

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  • Jordy

    “This is a hell of a lot harder than knit one, purl two,” Chris said. Her tongue stuck out a little while she concentrated over her needle and thread.“Language young lady,” aunt Nancy said as she rocked in the rocking chair. “Remember you’re the silly bitch who wanted to learn this old timey crap.” Aunt

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  • A Killing

    “Whatcha doing?” Tony asked“Just killing my darlings, sweetie peach,” Mom answered.Still typing on her keyboard, she turned and smiled over at him. Tony was used to her magic and weirdness.“Can I have a juice box?”“Have a glass of milk and grab me a beer.” Mom returned to the soft glow of her screen.Tony made a

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  • A Scary Story

    The sun poured into the bow window, splashing across the kitchen table, dripping golden light towards the sink. Catherine was rinsing a jadite mixing bowl. Humming to herself, she turned the bowl delighting in its rightness. Nic sat at the kitchen table. A wide ruled notebook lay in front of her and a thick pencil

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  • You May Never Know

    “You sure is ugly,” Jerri mocked. “Why are you so ugly?” She sat down the grimy fortune teller toy on her counter and returned to her box of treasures. Rainbows from the dozen chandeliers hung from her ship’s ceiling played across the vintage windup. When Jerri left HR to open an antique shop she hadn’t

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