Ambar Sánchez

“The Dream” by Ambar Sánchez

Submitted to Contest #142

I didn’t sleep on my way back to my hometown. When I left away, I thought I would never have to come back, but there I was, feeling like I was heading to a ghost town.It gave me chills just to think about it, but I had to be back. I left a lot of things behind when I left, including people I loved as my friends. One of them was Marlene, with whom I probably shared nothing in common, but we had lots of fun together.The guilt haunted me because I was back because Marlene was dead after five days of being missing.I heard the news on social medi...

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“Anna” by Ambar Sánchez

Submitted to Contest #140

Anna learned that every legend holds some truth. She grew up reading tales and scary stories just to try to make sense of something she couldn't really understand. She didn't believe in ghosts or in any of the spirits and monsters she read about, she was just looking for an answer.She soon would leave her hometown for college, but if she didn't clear her mind before leaving, she feared the past would haunt her.She never told anyone about the memories that lurked in her mind and, sometimes, even her dreams. She was not superstitious, but she ...

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“Letter from Nowhere” by Ambar Sánchez

Should I nock or should I go?Those were Nadine thoughts while she was in front of the house she was sent in. And what a place to be sent! It seemed like only ghosts lived in there. It was not a random situation, the letter she was nervously holding in her hands made it clear.The letter was sent from a lawyer who apparently knew her father. Nadine grew apart from her parents. Her mother died when she was a little girl and her father left her in an orphan for a reason she never knew. What was she doing there then if her father left her?The let...

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“The Dark Eyed Man” by Ambar Sánchez

Submitted to Contest #104

TW: drugging, kidnapping "Have you seen him?" "Seen who?” I had to follow her eyes to find the man she was staring at. The problem was not the way she was staring at him, but the fact that he was also staring at us, was he smiling? I don't know. The first thing of him I saw were his black eyes, maybe they looked black because there was not too much light in the bar and when I realized he was smiling at us, I looked somewhere else. “I’ve seen him, can you please stop staring at him? It’s weird" I whispered to Leigh. "I can't, he's doing the s...

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“The Ghost of Her” by Ambar Sánchez

Submitted to Contest #103

Lily was her name. She was named after her mother’s passing, but she was just a baby to remember her. And eight years later the young Lily died as well, as if the name carried a curse within the family.Lily was the younger of four children and they all lived with their father, a man who stand up after his wife’s passing only to take care of his children, but he could not handle the grief after his daughter’s dead.The other kids of the family were the twins, Thomas and John, they were only nine years old when their little sister died. Alice w...

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