L Mincola

Joined December 2022

32 stories

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Horror and Thriller writer. Cleric. Voracious reader. Lover of the dark, weird, and nerdy. Also coffee, I love coffee. And mugs.

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Fifteen seconds to violet. Top Story - May 2024.
Victor regarded the electronic card around his neck thoughtfully, the numbers rising the tiniest fraction by the second. The bar almost looked like it wasn’t moving at all, if he didn’t look long enough.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Fiction
The Other
Every time I go to sleep, I dream that I am someone else. Adam stared at the typed words on the screen until the words stopped looking like words and began to look like gibberish.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Horror
Pain
“My headache is a ten out of ten, Dr. Gillis. And I usually have a high pain tolerance.” The patient plopped onto the exam table relatively easily as he said this, even though just a few moments ago he insisted he was in so much pain that he had to be transported to his room in a wheelchair.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Horror
Pebble
I have never been a good sleeper. I would dream almost every time, which, I’ve been told, was a sign of stress. I never remembered the details, but always, always, I would wake up with remnants of a feeling.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Fiction
Sugar
There’s a switch, at the edge of consciousness, that flicks on when one crosses it, like a lightbulb, or a bomb. A blinding whiteness of nothing.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Fiction
The Hollows
The first Hollow appeared in the bright light of day. It looked, at first, to be a deep obsidian humanoid statue, with long gangly limbs, slender fingers, and a v-shaped torso. The head tilted slightly to the side, unnervingly, as if deep in thought.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Horror
Exhalation. Top Story - January 2024.
Dying, for me, was a beautiful experience. I know that sounds crazy, blasphemous even, to describe such a tragic thing, a viscerally sad thing, in such a dissonant way. You might wonder if I was depressed. And truly, I wasn’t. In the end, despite everything, I was stupidly happy. Still, if I was being completely and truly honest, dying, the actual act of it, the process of letting go… that part. That part was bliss.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Fiction
Our Forever
As Anya lay in her stiff bed, about to doze off into permanent slumber, she thought back to her life, her marriage, her husband... David. The pain was almost bearable now. It was still there, of course, it never left, but Anya was just about medicated enough that it didn’t matter.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Fiction
Nothing will hurt you here.. Top Story - October 2023.
It started with a whisper, low and slow. Gentle pings on the piano, and then, strings, each note a pull, causing a twinge in the middle of the chest that feels almost like pain, the low bass a soothing rhythm, slowing the heartbeat to match its cadence, first steady and calming, then faster, louder, to a climactic peak, a cathartic exhalation, before slowing back down in a comforting decrescendo.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Horror
Time is a Dangerous Thing
Time, too much of it, is a dangerous thing. Megan mulled this over as she started to notice a few things. Peripheral things. Things that she otherwise would have completely ignored back when she was too busy.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Fiction
Monster. Top Story - September 2023.
When I think of the word “monster” I think of my daughter. It was an involuntary reflex, an automatic thought as my academic husband would have called it, the association between “daughter” and “monster” carved into the recesses of my brain, my neurons easily connecting the two concepts together.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Horror
Reintegration
It took decades longer than anyone ever anticipated. And then, just as the world took a collective sigh of relief, it mutated.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Fiction

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Fifteen seconds to violet. Top Story - May 2024.

The Other

Pain

Pebble

Sugar

The Hollows

Exhalation. Top Story - January 2024.

Our Forever

Nothing will hurt you here.. Top Story - October 2023.

Time is a Dangerous Thing

Monster. Top Story - September 2023.

Reintegration

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