Stories by L_T99
Sever The Static
Crickets make peaceful company; a lulling ambience to soothe the quiet side road, where a girl can puff another smoke, wondering what lecture Chief's gonna bark come morning. But my night was only beginning. The dash radio didn't just crackle to life - it sputtered in jumbled, inaudible pieces. I...
35 min • 8 reads • sci-fi • cosmic
Where The Trees Turn Red
Some say it marched out of the sea under a bloody moon, here to expel our town of all hope - a monster to punish the naive prospectors of Maple Oaks who spent their gold on false witch hunts; an avenger of the young women burnt at the pyre, drowning the land for rebirth. Others say it was summoned...
35 min • 3 reads • supernatural • urban-legend
A Silent Girl From A Wailing Sea
They called them the 'Blue Boys' because by the time the sea spits them back out, the cold has dyed their skin - tracing their veins indigo; turning firm, strong lads into stiff statues of bloat and salt. We’ve buried three this month. Three half-empty coffins, as the water doesn't return all it...
34 min • 8 reads • haunted • cosmic
Cropsy
Scarecrow - an object made to resemble a human figure, planted in virgin fields to scare away the birds. An object of baseless fear; a patchwork of straw and burlap. But Cropsy was crafted different, by older hands with older seams. And he provided far, far more. From my bedroom window, I could...
36 min • 3 reads • psychological • creature
Lavender Upon The Snow
No Christmas lasts forever. The puppy from the box will lose its novelty, and grow big and stink - maybe make a mess on the floor once in a while. The decorations return to the attic and gather another year's worth of dust, assuming they remain in the same home at all. Extended families go back to...
36 min • 4 reads • supernatural • entity