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Short horror stories from Tasmania. Ordinary lives, broken certainty, and roads that should never have been followed.
THE STORIES ARE WAITING
Short horror stories from Tasmania. Ordinary lives, broken certainty, and roads that should never have been followed.
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Hear me, in your ear, whispering the words, that make you see, you never really knew me, you thought you did, you wished you…

I spat a mouthful of blood out onto the floor, in front of him, and raised my weary fists again, this was it, everything…

Good cheer, good joy, let us all take hands, let us be friendly and merry with all of mankind, let us smile and sing,…

Fucking bastard tricked me, I knew I never should’ve trusted him to do the right thing. Big Poppa Stan had me in a tricky…

Do you hear that? Do you hear the nothing that is coming? How it makes no sound, but yet you know it’s coming, slowly,…

I feel it hit me, the pain, everything, it’s not what I thought it was going to be, this job, it’s my last, but,…

Running clean, no infection, no disease, my blood is nothing, my blood is free, free of my heart that pumps it around, free of…

“So tell me, seriously, why the fuck does Christmas turn you into such a sad mother fucker?” She says, landing next to him on…

Something said, in times like this, to be told now, by all the boys and girls, it’s Christmas time, it’s the end of the…

Sometime, back then, in the time before time, in the place, where dreams were real, and reality didn’t have a place, I was born.…

Let’s make a noise, one the whole world hears, lest smash some shit, let’s drink some beers, it’s party time, as the world comes…

He looks across at them, as they sit, huddled in the corner, fear, dirt, blood, piss, and shit, covering them, their eyes, stare at…
THE ROAD DOESN’T END HERE