The church had stood for over a hundred years, its bricks faded with time, its bell tower leaning just slightly east, as though bo...
The street was darker than he remembered. It wasn't just the failing streetlamps or the cracked concrete catching shadows — it was...
The room was quiet except for the faint hum of the oxygen machine and the occasional creak of the old farmhouse walls settling in...
He had always thought death would sound louder. When the shot rang out — quick, sharp, and final — it didn’t echo through the cour...
The baptismal water was colder than she expected. Lily shivered a little as she stepped in, the surface rippling around her. She w...
It was the kind of house you didn’t walk past without quickening your step. The shutters dangled loose like broken arms, and the p...
They say the courthouse was cold that morning — not from lack of heat, but from something deeper. The kind of cold that settles in...
The motel room stank of cigarette smoke and something older, like mildew and regret. Caleb slumped on the edge of the bed, fingers...
It was an old church tucked away behind crumbling stone walls and forgotten ivy. The kind of place people passed without seeing, a...
The power had gone out sometime before dawn, though no one noticed until they arrived at the church. It was the first Sunday of Ad...