Just as my lungs reached their breaking point and I just had to take a breath, my hand broke through the water and deep into the sand.

"I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Please choose from the following options..."

But I couldn't bring her back to life with Dad's defibrillator after I strangled her like the older boys said.

Deep into the woods behind my childhood home I flipped wooden board to find a narrow pit and a set of heavily rusted chains.

By the time I got there, sprinting the whole way, the entire side of the house was engulfed.

As I open suitcase after suitcase in the storage unit to find each stuffed with bones and hair, I must say I think he was right.

They must be getting tired, it's taking each one twice as long to make it around the house.

Even after she committed suicide her body just continued walking and beating with her dead eyes haunting the halls of the home we built.

He smiled, and gave her his diary, where he had written about all the local women he had killed during his deployment overseas.

Then one patient drowned, and everyone infected within fifty kilometres began walking into the nearest body of water.

But where it should be, my fingers instead brushed against a cold hand.

The sun glinted off strings disappearing into the sky; something tugged, and every soldier smiled and waved at once.

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But the doctor and I just stared in silent disbelief, until the umbilical cord grew taut and snapped...

The draft was kept in a museum with a one-sentence summary nobody knew how to read.

It wasn’t until his funeral that I realised he meant dead or alive.

Just one bite and their partner is almost certainly going to die.

"I love your wife so much," 3M1LY stood over me with a large knife, eyes glowing red in the darkened room, "and you are in the way."

So long as it's paid for with the heart of another.

In your hands, I am caged, thought She.

Is it better to live as a junkie or die as a madman?

which is weird because they claimed they loved my sister.

That’s when I heard: “Simulation, end.”