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Well Enough Alone

Mom and Dad left Siobhan in charge on Halloween night. She had turned 16 in May, and her parents finally decided she could watch her brother alone for a few hours. Siobhan enthusiastically agreed. She was definitely old enough to babysit, and her parents were definitely not too old to go out to a Halloween party. Siobhan had even held it together when her parents entered the room in their “Mr. and Mrs. Dracula” costumes. The outfits were silly, but her parents looked happy, and as long as Siobhan didn’t have to be seen with them, that’s all that mattered.

She waved goodbye to them as they stepped out into the chill October air. Once the car was out of sight, Caerwyn entered the living room dressed in a classic “sheet ghost” costume. It was a low-effort job. The eye-holes were jagged and fraying as if the scissors went in without a plan. Siobhan wondered where he got the sheet – hopefully from somewhere it wouldn’t be missed

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Nature Vs. Nurture

Amy opened her mail box and saw something she hadn’t seen since she was a child: Mixed in with the bills, furniture store ads, and credit card offers was a letter. An actual letter, addressed by hand. The sender was listed as Dan Gilbert, from an address in Cleveland, Ohio.

She didn’t know anyone named Gilbert, and didn’t think she knew anyone in Cleveland. Who the hell was this?

She opened the letter

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Love at the End of the World

The apocalypse wasn’t so bad, really.

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Some Angels Fall

Tyler looked into Hell, awed by the enormity of suffering. The teeming numbers of people burning, always burning, and screaming endlessly.

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Bug

Chkx crawled along the wood, which had been warm, but was rapidly cooling as the sun set and the shade grew. Everything was growing cooler, including Chkx herself. While she preferred cool and dark, it was becoming uncomfortably, though not yet dangerously cold at night. She sensed warmth ahead, and moisture, and kept crawling, seeking their comfort.

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Kindred

The two spirits remained seated on the curb undisturbed watching the spectacle with bored expressions.

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‘Round Yon Virgin

Even on an ordinary day you would be fortunate to have this as part of your path home. But this is no ordinary day. This is the last Saturday before Christmas and Southgate Mall is alive with all the splendor of the season.

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I Only Have Eyes for You

“The only reason they found my next-door neighbor after he died was because of the smell,” Brittany said, her voice tinged with a hint of pleasure. Her cheerleader friends leaned in closer, eager for the lurid details of Gary Newcastle’s death on Winter Street. “He had hanged himself in the garage.”