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Featured Strange Stories

  • DABBLING IN THE DEPTHS OF HER SOUL
    by Evgeniya Seizova
    by Evgeniya Seizova Year by year a beautiful young lady was gazing with Her spiritual eyes in her own destruction… Was she a human being anymore? She stared her tired and too dilated pupils once again in the impassable Darkness trying to find a ray of light. So many impossible efforts. They’ve been crushing and spitting out one by one small pieces of her soul…
  • ONE DAY AT THE ACME by Gary Kolb
    by maverrock03
    So I go into the Acme after my five mile run. I grab a basket because I just want to grab a few things. There is a good football game on ESPN tonight, Florida vs. Georgia, and I just want to pick up some munchies for the game. I’m in this aisle, right, pasta and sauce and things like that. Then this beautiful woman goes…
  • A Touch Bitter and Too Clever by Half
    by Kevin Easter
    By Kevin Easter There are parts of yourself that you hold back. You have to keep that part inviolate, hidden. It doesn’t matter how much you’re “in love” or how much you “trust” your therapist. That part remains. It’s your soul, your true name, your inner child, and you keep it to yourself. There’s one way to touch it. Torture. We know this from the…
  • RATS, REDNECKS, & RETRIBUTION
    by Rob Rosen
    by ROB ROSEN -Strange – 3 Pages – “Think we lost ’em, Cletus?” “Yep, Jeb. Think so. They ain’t never gonna find us up here. Countryside’s too dense and thick.” “Kinda like you, Cletus, huh?” His brother jabbed him in the ribs as they maneuvered their way through the prickly underbrush. “Oh, you’re a funny one, Jeb. Keep it up and you’re gonna find yourself…
  • The House Call
    by P.S. Gifford
    by P.S. Gifford Charles pulled into the overgrown driveway and gets out of his trusted old MGB. “A house call!” He muses “I can’t believe I got talked into making a house call” He slowly walks up to the over sized front door and pauses for just a moment feeling hesitant. Ringing the bell finally fighting back the images in his head sparked by persistent…
  • The Sallow Tallow Man
    by Joshua Blanc
    The Sallow Tallow Man by Joshua Blanc Oliver had just opened up shop for the morning, and was starting up his various processes in anticipation of another lucrative day. He lit a lamp, which cast flickering light onto dim and greasy surfaces. Every morning there would be a fresh delivery of animal fat from the butchers in the area, with whom he had a special…
  • The Cleansing Rain…
    by Brandon Cooper
    by Brandon Cooper I woke up choking again. Salty water inside my lungs. Yum. I think that is probably the worst and best part about sleeping under the blanket of rain, it’s terrible. That’s just the first adjective that comes to mind too…. I hate it. That is why I do it though. I hate it more than anything on this uncomfortable earth. More than…
  • SHADOW MAN
    by Ed Patton
    by Ed Patton It can be said that the sun drives the spirits of the day and the moon those of night yet I hesitate to think of what drives men’s souls to toil. I am a hunter of long seasons. Gray of beard and wearer of equipment both long in the tooth and time tested. For seemingly eons I have traveled the forests of…
  • Takin ah Smoke Break
    by Drake Knight
    by Drake Knight Note from Editor: This may seem a bit dated in today’s world, but it was written in 2005. I was at work, while taking my smoke break, and what was really odd about that is the fact that I don’t smoke. But, there I was, in the smoker’s lounge, puffin’ on a cigarette. I thought I could do it. What was a…
  • Sharkman’s Demise
    by Lucretia “lady” Randle
    Sharkman’s Demise by Lucretia “lady” Randle Caroline was a sweet woman, always giving to others before herself. We all assumed that’s why her first 2 marriages failed, they had taken what they needed and moved on. She had 4 beautiful children, and when it was just her and them they were spoiled by her love. James had lived a horrible life until his 18th birthday,…
  • Life After Life
    by Colin Blalock
    by Colin Blalock If you died, and after you were already dead someone said, “excuse me sir/ma’am, you’re dead”, what would be the first thing that came to mind that you wish you had done before you died? Me, I wish I had sailed around the world. It sounds far fetched, but I wanted nothing more then the peace and luxury of feeling the salty…
  • The Ringing of the Bells
    by Nikolay Terekhin
    -Strange – 9 Pages – The Ringing of the Bells: Part I The city of Laketown was awakened abruptly by the ringing of the bells. A thunderous roar resounded across the entire city, from the West wall to the Lake Gate and Fish Port. Every citizen was alerted, as though with shouts from above. “TREA-SON! TREA-SON! TREA-SON!” It started from the Blue Palace on Crown…
  • The Nebulous Dr. Fucknuts
    by Randy Bone
    Dr. Fucknuts brandished the cast iron skillet, preparing to use it against old Mrs. Schuster if she didn’t stop singing that damn infernal song. Dr. Fucknuts had lost his mind.  He wasn’t sure where he had left it, but he was certain that eventually somebody would find it and call the number sewn into back of its underwear.  He carried a special cellphone with him…
  • Change of Image
    by Clint Gaige
    For one man it was his office. For the other, it was just another place to vent. Books line the entire office wall. The man behind the desk was immaculately dressed. The other looked like a grunge fan. His clothes were beyond worn. “What the FUCK are they doing to me!” The young writer, in the natty clothing, paced the length of the office. “Calm…
  • Bobby Brady and the Psychedelic Sewage Tank
    by Saint Garion
    Bobby Brady and the Psychedelic Sewage Tank by Saint Garion * 3 Pages An old one toothed dirty bastard was walking down the street, he noticed a little boy sitting on the sidewalk. He seemed to be very sad by the look on his face, his hands on his knees, his head resting ever so slightly on them. “Hello young fella, how are you this…

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