THE STORIES ARE WAITING
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Short horror stories from Tasmania. Ordinary lives, broken certainty, and roads that should never have been followed.
THE COMPLETE LIBRARY
Every story. Every road.
More than a decade of nightmares, gathered in one place. Browse the full archive below—every published story remains here, and every new one joins it automatically.
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Day 355 – Thirty Minutes Or It’s Free – YouChallenge Short Story
Lost in a haze of darkness, this blog, these stories are my only escape, reclaiming what was mine. The second YouChallenge was to tell…
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Day 354 – Know Your Role – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. “I’m going to break that stupid fucking jaw…
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Day 353 – Reveal, My Sword – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. “Honestly, if I had more time to think…
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Day 352 – My Word Is Law – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. “ENOUGH!” She yells, holding her hands out commandingly,…
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Day 351 – The Secret Ingredient – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. “This isn’t a sandwich, this is two pieces…
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Day 350 – We Learn To Lie – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. “Do you think they’ll understand everything that happened…
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Day 349 – Teacher’s Pet – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. “Shhh,” she says looking up from her desk,…
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Day 348 – Lost Days – YouChallenge Short Story
When the blog began, Matthew served you up with the idea that each week he would take some sort of challenge from you, and…
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Day 347 – My Gloves, My Self – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. “It’s not fair, it’s not the way it…
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Day 346 – I Smell Your Sin – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. “There are some things, someone like you shouldn’t see,”…
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Day 345 – The Challenge – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. “It’s easy, just put your lips together, and blow,…
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Day 344 – Purposeful Acts Of Judgment – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. He stands looking over the vast empire that stretches…
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Day 343 – Behind Your Eyes – 50 Word Story Expanded
If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE. It lets out a cry of anger, driving its…
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Day 342 – Lioness – Short Story
She peers through the crowd, searching, lifting her nose into the air, his scent is strong, he can’t be more than a few feet…
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24 Days Until The End – Bad Day: My Kiss Goodnight, Part Four – Short Story
The new regime was set, Sally was in place, and the other girls followed, Belenti’s cut was sixty, but for a fledgling business, that…
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24 Days Until The End – Claude – YouChallenge Short Story
She grips the lead pipe and turns in a circle, her eyes dart frantically around, trying to peer through the darkness that surrounds her,…
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25 Days Until The End – Bad Day: My Kiss Goodnight, Part Three – Short Story
I poured Sally a drink and she nervously came and sat beside me, girl could drink, but, I guess if you’d just had some…
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26 Days Until The End – Bad Day: My Kiss Goodnight, Part Two – Short Story
So, I’m standing there, my glock smoking, Sally screaming her fucking perky little tittys off, and her boss lying in an ever-growing pool of…
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27 Days Until The End – Bad Day: My Kiss Goodnight, Part One – Short Story
Pinnerforth, that’s the last word she said to me, fuck knows what it meant at the time, but I vowed I’d find out. Her…
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28 Days Until The End – Committed – 50 Word Story Expanded
“Bobby, are you sure this is the way he went?” She asks, as they slowly make their way down the deserted hallway, their torches tearing…
THE ROAD DOESN’T END HERE