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What can you do when the familiar turns into the unfamiliar and all the rules that you believed to be unbreakable are shattered right in front of your eyes?

12 unique horror stories that include ghosts, possession, existential crisis, desolate hellscapes, cursed families, and more. Whether you're looking for a thrill or a way to lose your grasp on the familiar, there's a story that'll touch a nerve for you.

Illustrated by the author himself, you can explore a world where that which was meant to live only in myth and folklore comes to life, and the basest of mankind's instincts are trifled with by ancient oddities.

Dare to see the worst mankind has to offer, and how even that can be too low for those who've long wandered an uncaring universe.

Stories include:

• A Scent of Vanilla

• Skin

• Solipsism

• Visions of Hell

• Ichstab's Loch

• The Consumption

• Fear the Living

• The Abyss

• Heartbeat

• The Witches

• Breathless

• The Old Man

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20 Prompts to Kickstart Your Writing

Read part 2 here Freedom is a curious thing. When you can write about anything, you might as well be able to write about nothing. This is where prompts come in. If you can focus on a certain style, or genre, or plot device, then you might find that it's exactly what you need to stick to a story, or poem, or what have you. Without further ado, here are 20 prompts that can help you out. Your first line has 20 words, the second one has 19, and so on until you finish with one word A story that takes place in a single room No narration, only dialogue Death's greatest mistake Mix two very different genres Write a story in 100 words or less Start and end with the same phrase Apocalyptic but happy Rewrite your favorite story Everyone but your protagonist can speak Any action in the story is decided with you flipping a coin A failed experiment Write a story without using any pronouns Make the simplest of actions suspenseful An ordinary person in an extraordi...

Short Story Giveaway + Cover Reveal

Click here to buy The Darkness: A Short Horror Story The Darkness will be free tomorrow Sunday July 12 to Monday July 13 Make sure to get your copy! Night turns to day and everyone's afraid to leave their sanctuary, and yet, something threatens it. A standalone horror story shrouded in mystery, where the unexplainable happens and neighbors are forced to trust each other. A slow burn that'll chip your sanity away. Just because you can't see anything there doesn't mean it's not dangerous. Illustrated by the author himself, see a world that has been reduced to nothing but an oasis in the dark. What recourse do you have when then those you're supposed to trust turn their backs on you?

How Gorillaz Tells a Story With Style

Once you've seen it, you can't really forget 2-D, Murdoc, Noodle, and Russel. Gorillaz has been around in my life for almost as far as I can remember. Damon, of course, has been making music for a pretty long while, but this little project which has grown to a critically acclaimed band started around with a strange album which nobody could really define. It had elements from punk, rock, but all in all its style was pretty alternative to what everybody was listening at the time. They began in 1998 but I remember it was 2001 when they caught my attention. Of course, I was five years old and I was really attracted to the animation style, but as I grew up, and after Gorillaz came Demon Days and Plastic Beach , and in between those, a bunch of B-sides albums, remixes, singles, and even a dub mix of the first album, and in each of them you could notice a pretty distinct style, which begs the question, what defines Gorillaz? Heraclitus told us that no man ...

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