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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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“You think it’s true?” “What part?” “All of it?” He shrugs his shoulders and smiles, “I believe what I can see, I believe what…

“They are the thing of dreams, nightmares in fact, and, to know that they exist, scare the fucking hell out of me,” she says,…

The acid burnt, not that he knew, as he was long gone, his dead, empty eyes just stare forward, as the corrosive liquid begins…

“It’s so beautiful, you need to come an look!” She yells from the balcony. “In a minute! It’ll go to an commercial soon,” he…

He grips the knife tightly, feeling the blade slice through his flesh, and, as his blood drips onto the ground, the very earth itself…

“It’s not going to work, there’s too much damage, she won’t make it!” He yells across the spluttering, screaming engine. “We’ve got no choice,…

“What you think they care if you’re guilty or not? All they care about is closing this case, and making sure the real truth…

She huddles in the corner of the room, as it shakes violently, the wind howls furiously, as it slams into the side of the…

It was a cold and windy night when I went across the street to fetch Margaret from the Fishers, she had spent the night…

“It’s going to make us fucking rich,” he says as he raises the bottle over his head, and leans back, poring it’s contents into…

“They said it came from the foot hills of a place that no longer exists, bathed in the blood of kings and queens, with…

He fumbles with the rope several times before finally managing to get a solid grip on it, his heart pounds in his chest, he…

“Some people, in counties, not as prosperous as yours, treat this sort of thing, as a delicacy.” “There’s nothing delicate about any of this,…

“I said give me you’re fucking bag, or, I’ll cut you!”He says, griping tightly onto the blades handle, holding it towards the two women.…

“P-P-Please, please don’t, th-there must be something I can do for you, anything?” He screams. “Come now, you know the answer, you know what…

“I-I-Is, is that true?” She asks, turning to him, her eyes wide with panic, her bottom lip trembling. “Would I lie?” He replies coldly,…

“I-I never meant to hurt anyone, I never meant for t-th-them to die the way they did, I loved them all, e-eac-ach as much…

“When this all first started, we had some good times, perfect times almost, you could say,” he says with a smile. “That’s before you…
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