*CW for child death* Once upon a time there was a witch, but her house of candy was not in the middle of a deep wood. The little house was in a neat little suburb, and the witch was a cosmetics saleswoman named Jessica Howell. Jessica was not a witch by choice. She had notContinue reading “The Children’s Bones”
Category Archives: Scary Stories
Wall of Wasps
The wall of wasps stretched as high as the sky, and as far as the ends of the earth. It was a buzzing, humming, moving world of wasps, a writhing surface of wasps, their black and yellow bodies dancing their strange insect dances, their stingers alive to the possibility of human intrusion. Taryn hid inContinue reading “Wall of Wasps”
His Wife’s Garden
Arthur dug up another weed with his trowel and shook the dirt loose. “Gotcha, little bastard,” he said with a toothy grin. His voice was raspy from years of smoking. No cancer, though. Audrey had told him over and over that smoking would give him cancer, and give it to her too. Wrong on bothContinue reading “His Wife’s Garden”
Storyland Chronicles: Henry and Gina
Pickle and Mister Man circled Jessica’s feet and yowled. Pickle’s voice was as old and creaky as the rest of her, but the young and vigorous Mister Man was able to pick up the slack. Pickle was a raggedy grey tabby with half a tail—Jessica was uncertain if she’d been born that way or ifContinue reading “Storyland Chronicles: Henry and Gina”
Dawn Napier 