House on Fire

[From the cutting room floor of my content edits. It’s great at waxing poetic, but did nothing to move the story along. So it goes.] Some time had passed, more than desired and less than expected. Jason had wandered to a bar he used to frequent, a familiar stomping ground to provide him with some […]

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Hide

The rain stopped about an hour ago, but the smell of it lingered in the air. Sean had convinced his friends to go urban spelunking at the abandoned meat packing plant just outside of town, but they nearly backed out on count of the weather alone. Not so much for cowardice as much as safety; […]

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Demon in a Bottle

Aidan woke up with a shake. His body twitched as he found himself restrained to a chair, tied at every extremity. In particular his hands and fingers were bound and covered, secured to the edge of the wooden armrests. The light of the candles in the room was dim, and there were no windows that […]

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Reliquary of the Damned

The world around you has a history of its own, beyond the perspective of your existence. Just like you, the things around you have their glorious moments and their deep, dark secrets. Victors and the vanquished share something in common: the bloody, brutal war that led up to their definitive title. Your surroundings are both […]

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