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  • Sunset Winter Pond
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    By Donna Trovato
    April 1, 2019
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    The Winter Witch – A Decade Looms

    Click the link for part one – The Winter Witch Click the link for part two: – The Winter Witch – Kurt’s Wrath Kurt stands on his backyard deck and watches the sunset through the winter-bared trees. He stares at the vacant house across the pond, as he has each winter evening for the past nine ...
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  • Nighttime pond, wooden beams
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    By Donna Trovato
    March 18, 2019
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    The Winter Witch – Kurt’s Wrath

    Click the link for part one – The Winter Witch Kurt hides under his backyard deck. He peers through wooden beams to keep watch on the house across the pond. Knee-deep snow and frigid temperatures cause him to shiver, but he refuses to go inside his home. Images of his wife’s lifeless body and her ...
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  • Autumn time creek
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    By Donna Trovato
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    Creekside Killer

    Flowing water rouses Sullivan from a deep slumber. Expecting to wake to an opened bedroom window, he gasps at the realization before him. With hands and feet bound by tape, the seventeen-year-old sits alongside a creek, roped to a tree. Autumn temperatures in the forest chill him to the bone, so he draws his legs ...
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  • Porch steps, purple hydrangeas
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    By Donna Trovato
    January 21, 2019
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    The Beast Beneath

    Fifteen-year-old Rowan creeps into his house and eases the kitchen door closed, hoping not to alert Gary, his abusive step-father, of his arrival. He sets his backpack on the table, then tiptoes to the fridge for a serving of chilled apple juice to combat the effects of the extreme heat. The refrigerator’s cold air soothes ...
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  • Moon over brick wall & brick building
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    By Donna Trovato
    December 10, 2018
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    The Tourists

    Scarce lamp posts and a full moon provide limited lighting for Brian and his younger brother, Aidan, as they tour the streets of an old village in Italy. The two continue alongside a brick wall and weathered building and notice a light shining from the small upstairs window. A floor-level door bursts open and startle the ...
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  • Cemetery, Nightfall, Entity
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    By Donna Trovato
    October 29, 2018
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    The Entity on Hallows Eve

    ** Trigger Warning – Physical abuse/attack, Death/loss ** Lindsey’s friends warn her to stay out of the old cemetery when night falls on Hallows Eve. They claim it becomes a spiritual conduit and that a malicious entity appears. She ponders whether or not to heed her friends’ warnings as she maneuvers her red Jeep along ...
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  • Two demons & a pumpkin
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    By Donna Trovato
    October 15, 2018
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    Trick or Treat, Time to Meet

    Brisk winds propel two demon spirits as they soar through the moonlit skies. Tony and Frank howl and guffaw on their journey toward a Halloween party hosted by the living. The uninvited fiends delight in their annual mission of claiming the soul of a human. They whiz downward through the clouds to glimpse the sparsely ...
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  • Dead trees
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    By Donna Trovato
    September 17, 2018
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    Short Story: Evil’s Escort

    Staring out her bedroom window, an ominous feeling grew in the pit of Anna’s stomach. She looked at the scene before her. Menacing flames from a recent forest fire threatened her residential community, but firefighters saved all homes. However, the inferno scorched nearby hillsides and distant mountains, leaving thousands of acres consumed from its feeding ...
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    By VL Jones
    June 11, 2018
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    Highway To Hell

    No. This article isn’t about the song “Highway to Hell”. Fooled you hahaha. This Highway to Hell is also known as the former Highway 666 or, the more common nickname, The Devil’s Highway. It’s a 200-mile stretch of road that starts in Monticello, Utah and stretches to Gallup, New Mexico. It is said to be ...
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    By J.C Ballard
    April 30, 2018
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    The End of the World

    The world was supposed to end twice in the past two weeks. April 18th was the first time. The rumors that the world would end came from a supposed phone call from the black box of Malaysian Flight 370. It was a rather crazy conspiracy with several different parts and pieces that followed the initial ...
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