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The Mountain's Keeper
Robin stepped out of her car and took a deep breath of the crisp, early morning mountain air. "You just can’t get that in the city," she sighed happily, pulling her backpack out of the trunk. Behind her lay a small town—a modest collection of houses barely larger than a suburban neighborhood, with a few shops and businesses scattered throughout. But before her stood towering mountains, dense forests, and the promise of adventure.
By Matthew Spinelliabout a year ago in Fiction
The Most Important Thing I'll Ever Do (3 of 3). Content Warning.
*Author's note: This story will dive into some fairly sensitive topics including untreated mental health, murder and suicide. This is part 3 of 3! Click here to read part one and here to read part two!
By Matthew Spinelliabout a year ago in Fiction
Guardians of the Broken Walls. Content Warning.
I felt as though I could slice the tension in the air with a knife. My fourteen sisters-in-arms and I stood side-by-side as we heard the monster bash against the walls of our castle. My eyes moved down to the remains of the guards that arrived before us. They had gone out to meet the beast, to serve as a first line, to buy us time to prepare.
By Matthew Spinelliabout a year ago in Fiction
An Awakened Mother's Rage
Her children... She could hear them... They were crying. Their dying words were calling to her. Something was here. Something that didn't belong. Visions played through her mind. Her children were running from large, cylinder-shaped ships made of a material that was not of her bounty.
By Matthew Spinelliabout a year ago in Fiction
A Chat With My Oldest Friend
As I lay in the hospital bed, my breathing was labored and slow. I half-opened my eyes to see several members of my family around me: my eldest daughter, my son, some of my grandchildren, and my youngest great-grandchild, Michael, a young man of twenty. Among them was a friend of mine named William, whom I had not seen in some time. How odd.
By Matthew Spinelliabout a year ago in Fiction
Nightmare Under Pink Skies. Content Warning.
I scrolled through channels, bored, trying to find something to watch. As I passed over the weather channel to the true crime channel to watch old forensic crime show re-runs, I noticed a red bulletin. I switched back quickly.
By Matthew Spinelliabout a year ago in Fiction
The Silent Suburb. Content Warning.
"Never been here before," Jeff thought to himself as he followed the delivery truck. The town was pretty far outside his home city. He had almost thought the delivery truck was going back to the warehouse when he'd seen it not too far from here on the highway, but that was in the opposite direction.
By Matthew Spinelli2 years ago in Horror
