Category: Short Story

Part 6 and Epilogue of my “No Sleep” series. — The next morning, Stanley showed up at our door.  We sat down to talk for a while, and we all agreed to forget everything.  Stanley dropped his key to Faye through a drain grate in our apartment parking lot, and we all listened as it…

Part 5 of my “No Sleep” series. — The day that Mr. Hartman unknowingly revealed to me that Stella was “the bad lady,” I stopped going to Faye Hall.  Knowing what I knew was bad enough, but not understanding it all was worse.  A ghost with an unfounded vendetta for vengeance?  No thanks. Three years…

Part 4 of my “No Sleep” series. — I remember the first time I wrote in my journal that I stared at the blank page for about 15 minutes before penning a single word.  I didn’t know what to say or how to say it.  We’d met a ghost?  We were attacked by a “bad…

Part 3 of my “No Sleep” series. — I got Stanley’s email address from Danielle and told him I wanted to talk to him about the thing in Faye Hall’s basement – the thing that I’d also seen on the 3rd floor.  Not more than 5 minutes after I’d sent the email, I got a…

Part 2 of my “No Sleep” series. — After the events of “Keys,” John and I went back to the help desk pretty shaken.  Though most of us at that worked there liked each other and were friends, John, myself, and one other person there had known each other for years and had been friends…

This is Part 1 of my “No Sleep” series.  My previous story, “The Lake,” sets the mood for this series. — Back when I was in college, I worked for a help desk where I did computer support.  I didn’t deal with network hardware or anything of the like, but I did whatever my bosses…

Delia and I were both students at a university in Arkansas. We’d met during our freshman year and started dating sometime during the spring semester. The dorms on campus were separated into male dorms and female dorms, with only the residential college being coed.  The male dorms were all situated around each other on one…