Imagine if you will… four high school girls huddled around a computer—a computer with a creepy website on the screen. The site is known as Creepypasta. It lists hundreds of scary horror urban myths. It is one myth, in particular, the girls are interested in. The girls are responding to a challenge that all young ...

Read The Hooded Figure before slipping down to the fiery gates of Hell. Don’t want you to get lost, now. James dropped his head and twisted around toward the group. His dark brown eyes glowered at the teenagers as they huddled in a circle. A sneer appeared, and a roar of sinister laughter crawled up ...

The wind moaned in the night. The moon’s light glared through the leafless branches scraping against Liam’s bedroom window. In the dim-lit room, a group of high schoolers chanted his name, urging him to enter the darkness of his closet.   James’ firm hand gripped Liam’s boney shoulder. The seventeen-year-old boy leaned in and whispered ...

The County modernized the old rusted truss bridge over Bear Creek.  At one time, the branches of the trees on both sides of the streamlet reached out to each other like long-lost lovers. The steel embraced the darkness the thick leaves provided. Now, the County had slashed the blackness away. The glow of the sun lights ...

Fourteen-year-old Sally sat in the swivel chair in front of the desktop computer. She scrolled through the social media news feed. Every line, every post broke her heart. People in America fighting against each other. Racism filled the computer screen. The young teenager feared another Civil War was brewing. Sally’s cursor was on the x ...

My perfect twin sister. She has flawless skin, perfect hair, and excellent grades. She is the most popular girl at our high school, is the class president, and the head cheerleader. Plus, she gets the lead in the school plays. It will not surprise me if she becomes the Prom Queen. She laid out her ...

Halloween brings out the spookiness within us all. It is the time of year where our thoughts of creepy stories, ghosts, and goblins come into play. We go to haunted houses for scares from people dressed up as clowns, Freddys, Michaels, and Jasons. We curl up with a bowl of popcorn on our laps, watching ...

The bell rung unleashing three hundred frenzied students into the corridors. They trashed their lockers, threw papers in the air, and stampeded out of the high school for their three months of freedom — time for family vacations, summer work, camping with friends, and parties. But for three fifteen-year-old girls, it is experiment time. Eve ...

Jessie sits on a log, licking his lips while roasting two marshmallows over the campfire. The flames send sparks into the crisp air, and the winter wind drifts the embers over the snow-filled treetops. His brown eyes show the glow of the roaring inferno in front of him, and his blue hair flows over his ...