TOTAL WORDS: 23,050 SCREAMERS - 18,516 OTHER - 4,534 "Teenage boys are incredibly, remarkably, undeniably dumb, it's just biology" is a v...

BRANDON VECCHIONE It’s Monday, and that means it’s Brandon's turn to wade through Freddy’s archaic, glitter-glue spackled, bullshit chore...

FREDDY GALLAGHER There are a lot of things Freddy doesn’t know how to do. He doesn’t know how to cook, for example. Baking is fine, with ...

LILA CHU The bracelet isn’t the first clue. The first clue is that first scream – no, not that first scream, the one before that, before ...

CHERRY GARCIA The doppelganger thing – it hits a little too hard, a little too close to home. Cherry was used to missing Lindy. Used to t...

NATALIE DELACORTE-DUPREE Natalie knows she’s a liability. She’s not big and strong and fast, not like Duncan, and she’s not ruthless and ...

DUNCAN WHITECLOUD Duncan’s a little pissed about the zombies, honestly. If supernatural creatures were gonna be a real honest-to-god thin...

I grew up loving basketball and hating Kobe Bryant. Some of my best and earliest childhood memories involve sitting with my dad, pizza bo...

genre: contemporary romance/magical realism word count: 808 January, 1947 Los Angeles, California Carson doesn’t even have to open his ey...

THE CAMP The road is unpaved, dusty and narrow, winding through a hazy curtain of summer-brown pine trees, dirt glinting with the occasio...

genre: contemporary romance/magical realism word count: 715 November, 2019 Ann Arbor, Michigan The worst part of college isn’t the classe...

genre: contemporary romance/magical realism word count: 520 October, 1871 Poughkeepsie, New York Carson hasn’t woken up someplace new—som...

genre: contemporary romance/magical realism word count: 589 June, 2019 Dallas, Texas Carson would call the whole thing with Dougie a come...

pace / pās / verb 1. do something at a slow and steady rate or speed in order to avoid overexerting oneself 2. move or develop (something...

genre: sci-fi/suspense word count: 400 Red. Yellow. Blue. The blinking is monotonous, perfectly timed, fleeting, distractingly vivid flas...

genre: neo-noir murder mystery word count: 421 They find the body in the maintenance elevator, the one that’s buried in the basement behi...

genre: contemporary horror word count: 505 It’s disingenuous, probably, to call it a campfire. It isn’t small or cozy or comforting or wa...

genre: historical romance word count: 391 “I’m sorry,” is the very first thing the Viscount ever says to her. It’s dark outside, candles ...

genre: contemporary horror/fantasy word count: 333 There's a ghost in Tyler’s bathroom. He doesn't realize, that first morning—just wakes...

AUGUST WORD COUNT: 16,118 WORKS IN PROGRESS: JINX – 7k / 80k WINE MOM/VODKA AUNT – 5k / 20k CINDERELLA – 10k / 90k STIFF AS A BOARD – 3k ...