Short stories: Nightmares 71 Articles

by Ashlene Allen

No... not again... I'm not back here again. Please tell me I'm not here again, in that torture chamber, with that Nausicaan stabbing me and probing me and...no... How many times has he stabbed my thigh since the firs...read more

by Sophie Grant

Kathryn's Torture Illinois was not the place to live. A few miles from Arkansas, Illinois wore a blanket of terraced houses. They housed the poor, the unwanted. With the sewage factory across the road, the smell lea...read more

by Joel Stottlemire

The Call of the Ooze "Nom!" The author's eyes flashed open, his mind going from sleep to alert in an instant. How long had he been sleeping? He couldn't tell. He didn't remember falling asleep at all. He roll...read more

by PoisonTouch

Just a nightmare right? "Stay back!" He screamed himself awake, almost falling off his bed. "Oh, just a nightmare," he nodded towards his worried wife. She rolled her eyes and muttered, "It's been three days now like t...read more

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by Frankie Sunflower

TENTACLES Surrounded by thin, wet, clingy, brittle vines, tentacles, ropes, things that bind and never let go. Things that pull me down to where i can't breathe, tighten around my stomach, my head, slithering between my...read more

by Rachel Slaney

It's dark and dank here. What am I doing here? Where is here? It certainly smells musty. There is an impending silence, This is uncomfortable to me. I'm alone, wait what is that? This just seems surreal. Well I might as we...read more

by A Morris

It was eleven o'clock at night and Chloe climbed into her soft bed, curled into a ball and began to drift into sleep. After a hard day she needed some peace and respite from the day's events. Slowly images began to flow in...read more

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by Delores Dorman

Mr. Jones Mr. Jones waited for me outside in the night like a tiger ready to pounce with his mouth twisted into an evil grin. As I peered out the window my heart skipped unusually loud. The thumps of my heart were heavy...read more

by PS Gifford

I just was out performing my usual evening walk with my best friend, Chester. Chester being an Airedale mix has an innate inquisitiveness embedded deep within his character; he simply must explore all of life's many intrig...read more

by Melissa Zienkiewicz

It's a nightmare, It has to be, right? This couldn't happen in real life... I looked around myself, and the sight was even more unbearable than the last time i looked. Blood everywhere, my mother, father...what happened...read more

by Ian Yates

I know this must be a bad dream, I remember counting backwards from ten as they pumped the anaesthetic into my vein....I can't be awake can I? I can hear everything around me, the soft music from the radio in the corner...read more

by D.F.C. Hill

When most people think of nightmares they imagine ghosts or demons. I've had a recurring dream and I consider it a nightmare because it is what most people fear above most. It is what most people just can't imagine. I ...read more

by Michelle Blood

Running. Running so fast, my breathing is hitched; the wind is wiping my hair around my face. I want to stop, but I can't. If I stop then whatever is crashing around behind me will, most likely, catch up to me. And I'm not...read more

by Aaron Beckwith

Darkness... The only sounds to be heard are a almost silent thump-thump thump-thump thump-thump, and then you drift into a deep, deep sleep. ...read more

by Trisha Quick

*It was a dark and stormy night and all Hayley could think about was getting home. She looked at her brother, making sure he was all right.*You ok, bro? *James looked over at his older sister Hayley, nodding his head* Y...read more

by Mark Freeman

No darkness, no screams, no silly motions of pain and suffering in this nightmare... Just a voice... a voice that whispered in every crevice, a voice that haunted at a distance and watched when doors closed. A voice tha...read more

by Justin Baier

Day 8:This, can't be... no it can't be! This keeps happening, why me. Every night for the past week i've been seeing...HER. It's been 7 years since that accident. I thought I would get her out of my head. I seem to see ...read more

by Janet Rudy

The Recurring Nightmare. Fleeing my mind. There is no way out of this place. I hear the breathing near my shoulders. I can smell that awful rotten eggs smell. The vomit at the tip of my throat I know I must run harde...read more

by Elai Gacad

One star, two, three, five, twenty. Infinite. Is this what it feels like to be high? He wasn't so sure. His head moved around, wondering what was going on with this world around him. The walls looked abstract and distorte...read more

by Paris S.

Old man Wimby stood at the bedroom window watching an eerie twilight fall across the snowy meadow. Strong winds blew, stirring the barren branches of the trees, seemingly making them wave like gnarly hands at the darkenin...read more