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A Build Your Own Haunted House Story Author: Jennifer McMahon Most of us come home and complain about work and the torments of the rat race to our spouses. Most of us daydream about quitting that rat race in fanfare and embracing our full-time hobbies, good sense thrown to the wind. But, how many of us plan to actually do something about it? How many of us have the guts or the stupidity (arguments both ways) to go all the way, up stakes, quit jobs, and follow the weirdness of an elusive dream? Well, Nate and Helen have the gumption to take the path less traveled, and The Invited is their weird, ghostly story. Most spooky house [...]

Laugh-Out-Loud Short Stories Author: P.G. Wodehouse One night my husband overheard me listening to a random assortment of Jeeves and Wooster and wanted to be introduced to the slapstick series of misadventures set right by the noble butler who babysits his British aristocrat with a firm hand and an admirable fashion sense. And so, as you must do a thing right, I started the hubby and myself at the very beginning of the series during our morning commute. My Man Jeeves, which I have probably read before in the far distant past, was a bit of a surprise. It’s just [...]

True Crime: A Childhood of Terror Author: Gregg Olsen In popular media, and even in the norms of our culture (and many cultures around the world), the word mother is imbued with love, protection, a transcendent quality of self-sacrifice and benevolence. A word, a role, deserving of respect. But what if that isn’t your story? What if for you the word is polluted with other meanings – like lies, and torture, and murder? In 1994, in the little town of Raymond Washington, Michelle (Shelly) Knotek, mother of three girls from three different men, gave the word mother a terrifying meaning. [...]