The Visitation of Mike Brady
The doorbell buzzed, and it wasn’t an especially long buzz or short buzz. It was just a regular buzz. There was nothing of the harbinger about it. I figured it […]
Category Archives: horror
see also: terror, gross-out, discomfort
Stop Haunting Me Already: A Modern Ghost Story
Before you died, you made me promise that if you died I would never ever forget you. Funny how it’s only now that I’m remembering you said “if” and not […]
No Life Guard On Duty
The summer of the yellow swimsuit she was ten and tall for her age. Skinny as a beanpole, her mother would say, in a way that always made her feel […]
Peacetime
Since the war, he does not go to the baths. He cannot bear to be near other men, naked toads squatting in drifting steam. He does not like to see […]
The Last Rush Hour
I woke up like usual. The sound of morning rush hour traffic outside my window. I thought about the report I had to write and send off to a client. […]
