Dan couldn’t remember much of the night. When he woke up, his sides hurt as though he had slept on...

From a high vantage point, where the city’s night lights twinkled brighter than the stars in the...

A thing with the appearance of a pretty-colored stone, blue and green, managed to survive...

A mother sets her child upon her knee. “It is time I told you about the grubkins,” she says to the...

Matching smiles. Two boys and a girl. The boys stood behind the girl, who was sitting. Behind the...

The book fell with a thud, but failed to kill anything. “Crap!” Kayla Swanson shouted as the...

The house was all wrong. On the outside, it looked fine. Blue Victorian two-story. Gray shingles....

Crash! When the shrill alarm startled Willard Jenkins out of his sleep, he jumped from his...

Cold steel rang dull in the dusky sky. Milo’s shovel hit something hard. Multiple thumps...

Turk pulled through the front gate and drove down the narrow dirt driveway. His work truck bounced...

I didn’t realize how nervous I was until I stepped out of my squad car. When my feet were on the...

Dr. Simon Peterson has a big secret. An awful secret. Its name is Mr. Wooffles. Simon is a...

His eyes were right there, right where they were supposed to be. They looked wrong, everything...

Clare bought the sago palm hoping it would survive her black thumb. All her plants shriveled and...

Good God, Gary Jennings thought as he hustled to his car, I can’t get away from this place fast...

Aliyah knew it was ridiculous to think the woman in the ad was actually looking at her. There were...

When I opened the door it was there, grinning. I screamed. I ran back into the kitchen. The screen...

Abbot Gregory watched Alan Carstairs shiver in his chair. It was November, and the stone monastery...

Paul clamped onto his thumb, the only one he had left, and took a deep breath in. Snot and sweat...

I remember when the world ended. The “end” fell to earth while I slept. It arrived with an ear...

“Humph!” The not-so-subtle exclamation had issued from the distinctly malodorous man behind me. I...

Nell tucked the phone between her ear and shoulder, “No, you’re not interrupting anything, I’m...

“Uh, Sir? I have the health report for the incoming epidermis shipment here. And I’m…I’m not...

Pa stumbles through the front door, stinking of whiskey. I catch a glimpse of his shaking hands in...