varicose vaults
It would sit with him for a moment, that bile and that hate, until it was time to look for the moths again. He began to eat them too, just to share in the communion.
Trigger Warning: end of the world, blood and gore, NSFW, animal death, unreality
Read More“You were swimming in her ocean, at the center of it all. Bile in your hair, in your clothes, on your skin.”
“Stop.”
“I saw you.”
“Stop.”
“You loved it!”
And even as I ran the quarter-mile away toward class, leaving her behind to shriek her words at people who wouldn’t listen, I knew she was right.
On some level, deep within me, I did love this.
Trigger Warning: blood, gore, existential horror, loss of memory and identity, parasites and infection
This story is a sequel to the 2017 story “The Tunnel Boy,” which you can read here.
Read MoreWrapped up like that, it looked innocuous enough. I remember my mom giving my dad a look, a “did you get this for her” look. If he’d picked up on it, they might have realized something was off – even if they never could have guessed what that something was – and they could’ve put a stop to it. Called the cops, hidden the present away, packed up and moved. Anything to keep me from getting my grubby little hands on it, knees covered in pajamas and pine needles, and tearing it open to reveal the toy inside.
Trigger Warning: gore, child endangerment, suicide, depression, parental neglect or abuse
Read More“Mommy, wake up.”
I glance first at him, then at the clock. I’m meant to be up for work in three hours, but my son is more important, so I resist groaning in frustration. “What is it, sweetie?”
“The man in the Moon is trying to scream.”
Read MoreThere’s a set of tunnels underneath my school.
They stretch across the housing side of campus, elevators leading to each of the dorms. Stray pathways lead to small shops, my campus post office, the dining hall, and a few rooms dedicated to clubs. They’re not the tidiest, with pipes jutting out of walls and empty, greasy garbage carts smelling up the corridors, but the tunnels aren’t scary. Everything is well-lit and reasonably clean. There’s at least one map per corridor, keeping the labyrinth easy enough to navigate.
Usually.
Trigger Warning: nsfw (non-erotic sexual imagery), blood and gore
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