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Horror fiction that delivers on its promise to scare, startle, frighten and unsettle. These stories are fake, but the shivers down your spine won't be.
The Fuchsian Expanse
Chapter 1 - Ascent Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I wish it were true. I wish you could look a man in the eyes as he begs for his life and hear nothing. But they’re wrong. The brain has a way of connecting the dots. You see the contortions as your mind spins around like a carnival. You wince as the body twists in agony, piercing the vacuum with a desperate concoction of emotion. You hear something much worse without sound. You hear something that thrusts into your brain like a thousand needles; an orchestra of discordant strings in a crescendo suddenly ceasing all at once within a fraction of a second. This conjured terror is louder than any audible scream and feels colder than any crevice of the Earth. The sound of a dying scream through the air on Earth is a warm lullaby compared to the death rattle heard within the vacuum of space.
By Erik Johnson3 years ago in Horror
The Rim
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. When you came to me, John, I heard your screams. Thick plumes of vapor condensing against a clear visor like frost. Screams that years ago thrashed your voice, now but an echo in your mind. Your eyes wild, scream loudest of all; thick with anger, betrayal, and despair. Sanity long since seeped from your mind like viscous sap. Your shouts placated only by the humdrum of liquid state hydrogen and oxygen injecting into kerosene. The hiss and whine of engines and gears numbing your senses. In this den of snakes you are held captive by the very mechanisms designed to support you.
By Tony Galbier3 years ago in Horror
The Travelers
CHAPTER ONE Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. It’s been said the same holds true for the Crossing Zone—a black hole devoid of all light, sound, and perhaps even air. Designed by the Originator to keep all the Worlds separate, once inside the Crossing Zone no scream, no cry for help, no plea for mercy can be heard.
By debra sanders3 years ago in Horror
Void Walkers
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Unfortunately for Dolores Tan all she could hear when the airlock opened without warning was her own scream. It was pure luck that she was fastening her helmet when it did, but she couldn't find the silver lining in that as the stars pinwheeled around her in a nausea-inducing light show. Whatever she had grabbed in a vain attempt to save herself was hooked to a fold of the thick orange suit. She pulled it close as the Eternal Hope flashed by again and again. Hard, elongated, shining - instead of grabbing one of the rails she had torn a spare oxygen canister from its place in the case. This could work. The colossal form of the ship was now in darkness. Something was wrong, terribly wrong,
By S. A. Crawford3 years ago in Horror
Prisoner of the Void
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Why they say that I do not know. Were a bunch of astronomers sitting at a table eating sushi when one of them suddenly blurted out “hey guys, I just realized, nobody can hear a scream in space.”? Better to say “Nobody can hear a fart in space, so nobody will know it was you.”
By Duskshadows3 years ago in Horror
POP
Isabelle watched her fingers as she waved them through the dust molecules floating in the everlasting light of day. Each left broad waves in its wake as they cut through the sunlight. Coming together, separating. Four. Eight. Sixteen. So many fingers. She looked to her right to see who the additional unexpected fingers belonged to. Someone come to help, perhaps. But there was no one there.
By Adam Patrick3 years ago in Horror
Extra
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Yet I hear Mother scream in frustration from down the corridor of our station. My dear parents have been at it for hours. For years. Ever since what happened to the Kline family. “I just want to go home!” I hear her sob. “It’s all because of that…that…” There was murmuring I couldn’t make out from our bedroom. A final shriek, “It’s tearing me apart inside! I can feel it!”
By Holly Pheni3 years ago in Horror
The Galactic Offense
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Whomever it is "they" are, they're right… I can assure you the screaming and ripping of flesh from bone fell silent. This will be my final entry on this journey, this mission's journey, and my life. Once the truth is revealed, I know without a doubt I will be killed. Nonetheless, it is what must be done. My country needs to know what its government is planning, and I am the messenger. The unfathomable horror that has befallen my crewmates and me is so gruesome that recounting what happened here would do no justice to the mayhem that ensued.
By Elaina Panesso3 years ago in Horror
The Last Stars
Nobody can a hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But you can feel it as a tingle on the back of your neck. The same feeling our ancestors experienced as a predator hunted them through the deep woods and on the high plains. This was that multiplied by a thousand. The terror as the cosmos screamed out in pain as its death throes wracked its way through the 'verse. You can't explain what's happening, you just know something somewhere has gone terribly wrong.
By Drake J. Williams3 years ago in Horror
The Echo in the Dark
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Perhaps this sentiment is so widely believed due to our own limitations as humans. This is a fact that I had so readily accepted as truth, until I heard the bone chilling scream coming from outside the shuttle.
By Tiffany L Galeski3 years ago in Horror
The Effects of a Broken Astronaut.
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” The words came from the scratchy child's voice on the tape, floating through the greenhouse where Hearl kept his suspects. The beings of another kind in his own eyes, when they resembled nothing more than humans.
By Campbell Diesel3 years ago in Horror
