The switch clicked down, but the wet breathing continued, unbothered by the lack of power. That night, Clara woke up because the temperature in the room had plummeted.

A girl named Sky Jones just gets out of prison regretting she made the choice to live with her father.

A figure emerged from the darkness at the end of the hall. It was walking on all fours, its limbs bent at impossible, jagged angles. It had the dark, shadowy silhouette of his dog, but as it stepped into the pale moonlight, Liam saw its face. It was his own face, distorted and grinning, staring back at him.

For a terrifying half-second, the mirror version of Liam remained perfectly still, eyes wide and hollow, staring back with a malicious, crooked grin. He bolted out of the bathroom and raced downstairs. As he passed the living room window, he froze. Outside, standing directly under the flickering streetlamp, were dozens of figures.

Thump. Thump. Thump. The sound was heavy and hollow, echoing from the front door downstairs. Liam held his breath, pressing his ear against the cold wood. No verbal reply came. Instead, a frantic scratching sound began at the bottom of the door, like fingernails desperately clawing at the wood grain.

The neighbor did not wave back. Instead, he slowly raised a single finger to his lips, making a sharp, deliberate hushing motion before turning and retreating inside. 'Strange guy,' Liam muttered. He walked inside the house, dead silent, rhythmic ticking of an old grandfather clock left behind by the previous owners.

The conclusion to The Smart-Home Haunting. My app claimed two heartbeats were in the bedroom. Then the AI speaker whispered: "The front door is unlocked... because I already let him in." This note is for subscribers only.

I bought a smart-home AI assistant to keep me safe. But at 3:14 AM, its synthetic voice whispered into the dark, telling me my front door was unlocked. When I checked my app, the door was locked from the inside... but the sensor detected a second heartbeat in my bedroom.

Scarlette 'Scar' Wayne is a Lawyer fresh out of Law School. Her best friend, Olive 'Livy' Xiao, partner in crime since childhood, is a Doctor now too. Only they know about the past they buried from High School. A past that becomes unravelled over a series of events after Scar attends a medical event as Livy's date suffering through a rough breakup. This chapter is the start of that unravelling, where her carefully controlled life cracks, when she goes looking for Livy after losing sight of her at the event. Scar runs into someone deep in the maze-like castle, but that someone isn't her best friend. ~ .˚✦ . ⋆ ˚. ✦ .˚ . ★ ⋆ . ~ #WritingProgress #GothicElements #Supernatural #Castles #FirstPersonNarrative #UnnamedBook #FullChapter #SneakPeak #BestfriendDrama #MysteriousGuy #Compulsion

The kingdom bells rang as Star stood on the balcony, the Cursed Blade of Sparta humming in her grasp. Below, panic spread through the capital as thousands of creatures emerged from the morning fog. Cyrick walked at their front, red eyes glowing beneath his hood. Guards raised weapons. Alarm horns screamed across the walls. But Star only smiled, her black-and-crimson dress flowing in the wind. “Open the gates,” she ordered softly. “An empire is being born.”

Mahogany thought she was going to marry a married man. Now she is engaged to her childhood friend that she has not seen in over 40 years. She is in the pickle of her life. Her only escape is her writing. She becomes stagnant and it turns out she becomes intrigued by her present drama. She puts aside her current novel that she has been working on for 5 years, to focus on this new idea. Now she has to convince her literary agent not to drop her from his roster of authors and to trust her direction.

Every heard the term, "Scared of your own shadow?" Well, what if there was something to be scared of? Shadows is an exploration of a child's fear of the dark and how it feels when something lurks in the shadows.

This First Chapter introduces a Hero named Zack Willows who must face life in high school, and meet people he's never met before and shows interest in a special someone? While also dealing with his friend Lucas Manson, who can be a complete rich idiot?

Prologue Oakley is in a strange world. Something really weird is about to happen. And her life is about to change forever.

This story begins with a girl named Oakley. She has a unique life but not everyone knows how bad it is. She acts as if nothing's wrong but that's not the truth. You’ll be the first to find out.

All three of us, Me, Salvador, and Mariana were in Salvador’s office. Face to face we were. “Mr. Prolongo, I believe we owe you an apology and an explanation,” said Salvador. “I’m going to have to agree with you on those two points, Mr. de Bahia. Please do.” Steam bellowed from my collar. I pulled back, knocked over some boxes, and let Sal have one in the bread basket. He doubled over as much as he could in these tight quarters with a whoof. Lola held him tight. He told her he was fine and that he deserved it. I had half a mind to bop Lola too but I refrained

Phantom Frequency ───────────────────────────── By Eric Uriel Hendrickson “The system doesn’t change because of perfect people. It changes because of broken people who refuse to quit.” ───────────────────────────── Axiom Heights, 2026 Chapter 1 Out of Redline ✦ The gates of Redline Maximum Security Prison did not open so much as grind apart, like the jaws of something that had been chewing on Marcus Rivera for eight years and finally decided to spit him out. He stood in the thin morning light with a transparent plastic bag hanging from one fist. Inside it: a broken watch with a cracked face, forty-seven dollars in worn bills, and a photograph so creased it had become soft as cloth. He'd handled it so many times over the years that the image was starting to blur at the edges —

On a foggy night, the protagonist drives along a cliffside road and sees a lighthouse that shouldn’t exist, long destroyed years ago. Drawn by an inexplicable pull, they approach and enter the lighthouse, discovering a mysterious, flickering humanoid figure with glowing amber eyes. The figure reveals that the lighthouse exists outside of normal reality and offers knowledge at the cost of memory. The protagonist resists losing their past, proving their resolve, and witnesses visions of alternate lives and possibilities. Ultimately, they return to the real lighthouse, now entrusted with the responsibility of protecting this hidden, mystical place. The story ends with a sense of awe, secrecy, and the weight of a new, ongoing duty.

Where ai robots take over and a life filled with regret , where one had to maintain and go against the odds to defeat

All prompts are from Pintrest. Morana moved into a sketchy old house and now she's on her way to discover more than she assumed about the house's roots.