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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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Thrusting, driving, digging it in, digging, tearing, pulling it out, ripping, bleeding, bruised, and beaten, you tore me down, you broke my crown, you…

Throbbing, pulsating, growing, eyes grow wide, as it enlarges in size, shock and horror, fear and panic, desperation, nervous tension, light headed, blackness calling,…

She grips herself tightly, as a cold shiver runs down her back, and into her groin. “Why’s it so damn cold,” she says, through…

climbing, pulling, clawing, digging, exhausted by it all, the light is slowly fading, my life is slowly slipping, into the endless pit, into a…

“I don’t want to play anymore,” he says, looking down at the ground. “You don’t just suddenly decided, half way through that you don’t…

pale, white, cold, as you lie there, in a pool of red, sticky, thick, congealed, what once flowed through your veins, what once carried…

Waiting, dehydrating, slipping away, into the endless place, where time is nothing, where it stands still, slowly, tirelessly, losing my grip, losing all sense,…

“I don’t want to play anymore,” he says, looking down at the ground. “You don’t just suddenly decided, half way through that you don’t…

“I promise, on everything I hold dear, if you don’t feel mighty different, rejuvenated even, after you take a sip of this here elixir,…

Every word I said that night, all the hate that poured out, I meant them, they were, and always will be, the truest words…

Dancing in the dark, dancing all alone, while no music plays, while my eyes are closed, emptying all inside, forgetting all the pain, forgetting…

“I promise, on everything I hold dear, if you don’t feel mighty different, rejuvenated even, after you take a sip of this here elixir,…
THE ROAD DOESN’T END HERE