Category: The Phantasmagoria

• Day 114 – The Shipwrecked

  “The ship’s sinking! Further down every second. You won’t make it back. Neither of you will.”

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  November 20, 2014

  The Here And Now, The Phantasmagoria

  boats, disasters, drowning, husbands, love, lovers, ocean, rescue, sea, ships, shipwreck, titanic, water, wives

• Day 109 – The Whispers From The Woods

  “Go to the woods,” it whispered, so to the woods she went.

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  November 6, 2014

  The Kingdom, The Phantasmagoria

  alliteration, blind, ceremony, cold, deaf, drinking, forests, magic, mute, senses, wind, woods

• Day 103 – The Mad House

  There is a manor at the end of a lane. In the center of that manor there is a cloud, which stretches tendrils into everyone who comes near.

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  October 21, 2014

  The Phantasmagoria

  abuse, child abuse, crazy, families, houses, insanity, Lovecraft, madness, tendrils, tentacles, trauma

• Day 102 – The Haunted Pizza Oven

  After months of denial, then attempting to ignore it, Tino had to face facts: his pizza oven was haunted.

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  October 20, 2014

  The Kingdom, The Phantasmagoria

  deals, food, ghosts, haunting, Italians, messages, notes, ovens, pizza, possession, restaurants

• Day 97 – The Retirement Community

  The bottom of the pool was black – one of those fancy lagoon pools – so the moonlight glinted off the water strangely, illuminating the palest man Malcolm had ever seen, reclining on a pool chair nearby.

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  October 10, 2014

  The Phantasmagoria

  black lagoon, creature from the black lagoon, creatures, dracula, frankenstein, monsters, mummies, retirement, seniors, universal, vampires, werewolves, witches, wizard of oz

• Day 92 – The Clock

  Jerry was transfixed. He lost interest in almost anything except observing the clock, trying to coax out of it the mystery of this menacing countdown.

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  October 3, 2014

  The Phantasmagoria

  bathrooms, clocks, countdowns, falls, haunting, obsessions, roommates, time

• Day 89 – The Immigration Officer Pamphlet

  Sedation is voluntary for the removal of eyelashes. PIs who refuse sedation will not be issued eye patches in the event of injury resulting from spastic movement.

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  October 1, 2014

  The Phantasmagoria, The Rim

  contagion, detention, disease, dystopia, guards, immigration, instructions, pandemic, post apocalyptic, quarantine

• Day 88 – The Hold

  That wasn’t him. It looked like him, but there’s nothing left inside of these things of the people they were.

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  September 26, 2014

  The Phantasmagoria

  castles, graveyards, holds, post apocalyptic, supernatural, survivors, walking dead, zombies

• Day 85 – The Car Crash

  “What if I just slammed into this jerk right now, and he spun out and died?”

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  September 23, 2014

  The Here And Now, The Phantasmagoria

  accidents, car crashes, cars, drunk drivers, dwi, murder, police, testimony, trials, what ifs, witnesses

• Day 83 – The Leviathan

  Suddenly the radar went crazy. Leonore stared, open-mouthed at the mass of fish that surged around the craft on every side.

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  September 18, 2014

  The Phantasmagoria

  bible, fish, monsters, ocean, planes, research, science, scientist, sea monsters, ships, submarines, whales