Creative Writing

When the cursed jester doll from an estate sale brings a legendary slasher killer to a coastal town of Westport, California, it awakens a legacy of horror that refuses to stay buried. Generations ago, Aleron—a jester betrayed by a king—laid a curse on the unjust. Now, his vengeance returns in the form of the legendary killer: part slasher, part supernatural force, all-consuming evil. As Halloween nears, Westport’s residents—teens looking for thrills, small-town families, TikTokers, and those running from their own secrets—find themselves entangled in a nightmare. The Jester doesn’t just kill; he feeds on guilt, secrets, and shame, turning confession into both a weapon and a salvation. Bodies pile up. Friends betray friends. The line between the living and the damned blurs. But in a town where the past is never truly dead, and the truth you hide can kill you, survival may come at the cost of your soul. The evil behind the mask is never quite gone—and confession may be the only way out. In Westport, some stories never die. And when the bells jingle, you’d better hope you have nothing to hide…

Ron Harper thought the worst thing that could happen in college was being invisible. Then he died—and it stuck. Now a ghost classified as an Unfinished Business Person, Ron is trapped in an afterlife run like a cosmic bureaucracy, where the only way out is solving his own murder. Teaming up with Jessica, another newly dead student with the same problem, Ron uncovers a terrifying truth: they weren’t killed by a person. They were hunted. A demonic entity known as “Darkness” is loose, possessing the living and leaving a trail of ritualistic murders in its wake. Worse, it’s not just killing for sport—it’s breaking ancient seals to escape a prison that holds back the end of the world. And its next target is Ron’s sister. With time running out, Ron must do the impossible: confront the thing that killed him, enter the body of its host, and stop it before it claims another life. But as angels, demons, and cosmic forces collide, one truth becomes clear— Some evils aren’t meant to be stopped. And some endings are already written.

Erin Roberts, the awkward black sheep of a legendary slasher family, fails spectacularly at every kill. More at home with vampire myths than knives, he’s the Slasher League of America’s biggest liability—until his latest target doesn’t die. She’s a vampire nursing a 1950s grudge against his bloodline. One lost mask later, fangs crash through SLOA headquarters. Ancient enemies, family secrets, and a mysterious Watcher force Erin to rally skeptical killers—including his disappointed father and proud grandfather—to rewrite their legacy: stop hunting the living, start hunting the undead. VHLOA The revolution begins with the screw-up. Dark, funny, bloody slasher reinvention.

After a terrifying call from her long-dead “Uncle Tony” on her late-night paranormal radio show, radio host Lydia finds herself plunged back into the nightmare she thought she escaped as a child. What begins as a personal haunting quickly spirals into something far darker. A string of brutal ritualistic murders — starting with bartender Samara Anderson and spreading to others — reveals that Uncle Tony is no ordinary ghost. He is Enyo, an ancient god-like entity from a lost subterranean race known as “the Others,” seeking to reclaim power over humanity. As Lydia teams up with her producer and boyfriend Jason, she uncovers a cosmic horror stretching back eons: ancient beings trapped beneath the Earth, blood sacrifices, interdimensional temples, and a prophecy that requires her as the final key. With the help of fellow victims and unlikely allies, Lydia must confront the monster who shaped — and shattered — her life. But defeating a god is never simple, and some evils refuse to stay buried. A chilling blend of psychological horror, supernatural suspense, and cosmic dread, this story explores trauma, belief, power, and the terrifying question: What if the monsters of your childhood were real… and still hunting you?

In the shadowed woods of Washington State, Sidney and Martha Jones sought refuge from the greatest tragedy of their lives — the mysterious disappearance of their fourteen-year-old son, Billy, in the Great Smoky Mountains. But some nightmares cannot be escaped. When a towering, telepathic creature known as B2B begins visiting their secluded cabin, the grieving couple is thrust into a truth far stranger than any Bigfoot legend. Their son is alive — but not in this world. Caught between dimensions and an interstellar civil war, Billy’s fate becomes inextricably linked to the Jones family’s own. For decades, a sacred ritual binds them to the visitor from beyond: a mysterious recipe, midnight visits, and fragile hope. But peace is an illusion. Now, as the sun sets on another summer evening, Sidney prepares the final meal… unaware that this night will bring not reunion, but unimaginable horror. A chilling blend of grief, cosmic horror, and interdimensional terror, this short story explores the thin veil between worlds — and the monstrous price of a parent’s love.

“The memories flooded back like a torrent of poison. The hollow eyes of the damned, the children weeping in perpetual darkness, the generations destroyed by this curse. Women clutching their throats as invisible hands strangled them, men driven to gibbering madness, their minds shattered like mirrors reflecting only horror. Liam understood then that power without conscience was just another form of slavery, a chain forged of ambition and damnation.”

It wasn’t supposed to happen tonight.

“The English brought here tea from China and Eucalyptus from Australia. Who’s to say what else climbed aboard those circumnavigating East India Company ships?”

The bus was crossing the border between South Carolina and Georgia when Troy decided that eating the brownies his roommate had given him was a bad decision. Time stretched out, an initial wave of pleasant floating slowly overrun by creeping terror.