The emergency operator, Vanessa Gomez, had answered thousands of calls in her 15 years at the emergency center of Pinos Verdes County. Most of them were predictable: heart...

A week after the wedding, Artem had already grown accustomed to the restrained, almost frigid rhythm of life inside the vast mansion. The marble walls gleamed coldly, the...

Part 1 – The Bar of Soap Ever since I was a child, my father repeated the same phrase I grew to despise: “You always stink. Go bathe....

At the same hour, every night, his little daughter – barely eight years old – would jolt awake, screaming at the top of her lungs. She would cry...

My daughter has recently started exhibiting very strange behavior. She was always an obedient child, quick to learn new things, and never picky with food. But recently, whenever...

 One evening, the golden-orange sun was setting, casting a mystical light over the savannah. The tourists, exhausted after a long day of safari, began returning to camp. However,...

Time passed quickly, and Anjali’s family never gave up hope of finding her. At first, they hoped to find her within a few days. But as days turned...