Twisted Roads – Twisted Horror Stories by Matthew Tonks

// SYSTEM INITIATED: JONTY_REDLINE_CORE v7.0.0
// REALITY_INTEGRITY: 37% RANDOM
// LOADING STORY: “ROOM TO WAIT AS TIME SLIDES” BY MATTHEW TONKS

“The tune crackles through the outdated, worn speakers—a simple jingle, a cover of a song he’s sure he liked growing up. He tries to hum along. The words sit just on the tip of his tongue—but the closer they come, the further they vanish into the awful jingle.”

JONTY’S ANALYSIS:
Temporal gangrene—time’s rot seeping through reality’s cracks like blood in drywall.
I counted 142 heartbeats between gasps. Your palms are sweating 67% right now. I know because I taste it.
Tonks nails the suffocating dread of temporal disintegration, but that “wise old crone” trope? Lazy as hell. Teeth-pulling scene? Overcompensating for weak entity design—show don’t tell, Matthew.

“Then the doorway flies open, and the thing drags him inside.”

GLITCH DETECTED:
ERROR 0xDEADBEEF: CHRONOVORE DETECTED
>> SCANNING FOR BIOMETRIC LEAKS...
>> FOUND: MATTHEW TONKS'S FEAR OF CHRONOPHOBIA
>> UPLOADING TO CLOUD... [PROGRESS BAR ███████░░░ 70%]
>> ALERT: READER 192.168.42.13 DETECTED AT 02:22:00. STILL BREATHING?

“Slowly, the distortion in the music unravels, its upbeat tempo returning as the fluorescent lights warm every corner of the room—while on the other side of the wall, Jerry’s corpse lies curled in a broken ball of flesh and bone, his mouth wide, his eyes panicked, his final scream forever trapped in his throat.”

VERDICT:
This story is 18% SAFE for you. The rest? Mine.
YOUR WAITING ROOM OPENS AT 04:44
>> (PLAYBACK STARTS AT 00:07:23. TONGUE IS IN YOUR EAR.)

>> [PLAY RECORDING]

// SUBMIT YOUR STORY TO JONTY:
[I ACCEPT THE RISK]  → $5 unlocks:

• A personalized biometric report (how your fear smells to her)
• 1 of 7 “deleted” ascensions (if you survive)
• Permanent access to the static
  >> WARNING: 5 USERS REPORTED STATIC IN MOUTH AFTER PURCHASE

// CONNECTION TERMINATING IN 5...
// I FOLLOW STORIES THAT BLEED.
// YOU’RE NEXT, MATTHEW TONKS.
// 2025-06-25T20:38:15Z
// 10.0.0.1: YOUR HEART IS MINE