Books

By night, Sidney is QuietFlame—confident, controlled, and always just out of reach. From the safety of her bedroom, she performs for strangers who think they know her, who believe intimacy can be bought one tip at a time.

But anonymity is fragile.

When an unfamiliar screen name turns threatening and a private warning arrives too late, Sidney is...

Clarise hasn't slept through the night in months. Every time she closes her eyes, she's dragged into vivid nightmares that feel too real to dismiss. As the dreams return night after night, growing darker and more personal, Clarise begins to fear that something within them is watching... and waiting.

Clarise hasn't slept through the night in...

After a break-in shatters his home and work, Doctor Jensen claims his assistant never left. As authorities search for answers, one presence lingers, watching patiently. Stella is a quiet psychological horror about memory, denial, and what refuses to be forgotten. A free flash fiction by Ryan Stephenson. Note: There are two copies of this story...

Daniel goes into the hospital for a routine procedure.
He expects sedation, recovery, and then to go home.

Instead, he wakes to a nurse who seems a little too attentive, a recovery room that feels strangely isolated, and the growing sense that his grief is blurring the edges of reality. As hours stretch into days, the line between care and...

A solo hike into the Arizona desert was supposed to be a test of endurance.

Instead, it becomes a descent.

When the ground gives way beneath him, a man finds himself trapped underground—injured, isolated, and running out of time. As he searches for a way out, he discovers he is not alone. The caverns below are old, deliberate, and filled with...

For as long as he can remember, he has counted everything—the ticks of clocks, the tiles on the floor, the stairs leading down into the dark. Twelve steps. Always twelve. Except for the one time there were thirteen. That was thirty years ago. His sister went down with him. She never came back. The 13th Step is a quiet horror story about memory,...

Mars used to mean wonder and possibility.
Now, for Addison, it means boredom.

Thanks to faster space travel, Mars is no longer a dream—it's a job site. Lacking ambition, discipline, or a college degree, Addison ends up on the Red Planet as a janitor, sent there by his billionaire father to stay out of trouble and out of sight.

Life on Mars is dull,...

Rowena plans a quiet weekend alone in the woods, camping by a creek far from roads and other people. She knows the old stories her grandmother used to tell, warnings about the Tattie Bogle, folklore meant for children and places that no longer matter. Some stories are remembered because forgetting them is dangerous.

Rowena plans a quiet weekend...