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When I was a nine-year-old boy, in my town, which was a small corner on the Earth where everybody knew each other and knew every tiny secret, the children started to disappear without a trace. Every week we heard of a new kidnapped kid in the neighborhood. The parents were so scared, they stopped sending their children to school. We weren’t allowed to look through the windows or to talk with anybody that wasn’t family.
He came out of nowhere and sat down at the pub. I remember quite well his garments were ragged and dirty. He had a sad and tired look on his face when he requested a tequila shot. He drank it silently until there was nothing left. “Where do you come from?”- I asked, intrigued. It was not usual for this town to receive visitors. We ...
I find myself in a deserted area where everything is dead, no sign of vegetation is seen. It is like a piece of nothing in the suburbs. Maybe I shouldn’t get out of my house, but I think if I've stayed, I would be dead by now. It all started when at three o clock the sky darkened. I thought it was an eclipse, although I didn’t hear anything about it. When it was 3:15 PM, the darkness wasn’t proper of that of an ...
Hallway of NightmaresI've had the same nightmare for two years. I'm always at that tall abandoned building that smells old and stinks like neglect. The darkness is shocking. My phone's flashlight is not much help to me; the blackness here absorbs all.I try to make my way across the corpses lying on the floor, although the sten...
Finding HopeLory was a perfectly healthy young woman of 25 years old. She enjoyed walking in the park with her cat, she loved to see the sun rising and never missed a sunset because she said: “every sunset is unique”. And she was right.Lory lived alone in her apartment. The complex consisted of six apartments and she lived on the second floor. Her apartment was beautiful, nicely decorated with a big gray comfy...
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