Forum: Red Rock View
05-15-2025, 10:37 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 83,283
The trailer was still.
Too still.
Benji...
The trailer was still.
Too still.
Benji had tucked her in like she was something breakable, like the bed might swallow her if he didn’t hold her together long enough for her bones to remember...
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Forum: Red Rock View
05-15-2025, 08:59 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 83,283
She was in two places at once.
One foot in...
She was in two places at once.
One foot in the clearing behind Benji’s trailer.
One foot somewhere else—older, darker.
Somewhere that smelled like rust and rot and wet earth packed tight...
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Forum: Red Rock View
05-15-2025, 04:34 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 83,283
The floor was cold beneath her feet.
Not...
The floor was cold beneath her feet.
Not trailer-floor cold—concrete. Earth.
Damp like it remembered something.
The night was still.
But inside her head, it was screaming.
Whispers like...
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Forum: Red Rock View
05-10-2025, 01:43 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 59,625
She hadn’t meant to cry.
But Benji’s words— ...
She hadn’t meant to cry.
But Benji’s words—
I’m in love with you.
—they hit her in the softest place. The part she’d been trying to keep locked up since this whole thing started. Since the...
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Forum: Red Rock View
05-09-2025, 10:32 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 59,625
She’d known.
Not just since the wall.
...
She’d known.
Not just since the wall.
Not just since Benji said her name like it tasted like blood.
She’d known since the dreams started shifting.
When she stopped running and started...
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Forum: Red Rock View
05-03-2025, 04:41 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 59,625
She’d read about them all.
Late at night,...
She’d read about them all.
Late at night, screen dimmed low, heart pounding in her throat while she scrolled past headline after headline.
Teen Girl Kills Friends in Nighttime Slaughter.
...
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Forum: Red Rock View
05-03-2025, 01:49 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 59,625
She hears the names like echoes.
Not Benji’s...
She hears the names like echoes.
Not Benji’s voice—but theirs.
Whispers twisted into laughter. Screams buried under floorboards. Familiar now. Intimate.
Cyrus Miller.
Billy Barker.
Ruby...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-28-2025, 10:45 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 114,058
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Forum: Shadyside
04-27-2025, 11:12 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 114,058
Benji didn’t answer.
Not a shout.
Not a...
Benji didn’t answer.
Not a shout.
Not a whisper.
Nothing but silence—and the dark breathing up at her from below.
Heather’s feet wouldn’t move.
They were welded to the concrete, useless and...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-27-2025, 08:12 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 114,058
The dark kept breathing.
Heavy. Wet. Wrong. ...
The dark kept breathing.
Heavy. Wet. Wrong.
Heather stayed frozen near the edge of the tunnel, fists clenched so tight her nails bit into her palms through her gloves.
She hated it.
Hated...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-27-2025, 06:36 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 114,058
The second Benji swung himself over the edge,...
The second Benji swung himself over the edge, Heather’s heart tried to tear its way out of her chest.
The cold, the dark, the endless stink of rust and rot—it didn’t matter.
She didn’t think....
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Forum: Shadyside
04-27-2025, 04:44 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 114,058
At first, Heather thought it was just the old...
At first, Heather thought it was just the old mall breathing.
The hum of dead air through broken vents.
The creak of pipes settling overhead.
The scuff of their footsteps.
But the deeper they...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-25-2025, 12:10 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 39,050
She was buzzing.
Still tasting him on her...
She was buzzing.
Still tasting him on her mouth. Still feeling the way his hand had gripped her waist like she was oxygen and he’d forgotten how to breathe. Still replaying the way our home left...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-24-2025, 10:38 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 39,050
She should’ve made a quip.
Should’ve rolled...
She should’ve made a quip.
Should’ve rolled her eyes, smirked something wicked, asked him if he practiced being that smooth in the mirror or if it just oozed out of him naturally.
But she...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-24-2025, 08:58 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 39,050
The sting was immediate.
Sharp. Precise....
The sting was immediate.
Sharp. Precise. Electric.
It wasn’t unbearable—it was nothing she couldn’t handle. But still, it pulled at her. Like the pain was calling something old to the surface....
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Forum: Shadyside
04-24-2025, 07:42 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 39,050
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Forum: Shadyside
04-24-2025, 06:06 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 39,050
God, he was ridiculous.
Hot, inked,...
God, he was ridiculous.
Hot, inked, half-shirtless trouble in a broken-down chair, talking like she was the entire origin story of desire itself. And the worst part?
He wasn’t even wrong.
...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-23-2025, 11:59 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 39,050
It smelled like smoke, ink, and something...
It smelled like smoke, ink, and something metallic that didn’t quite leave the air, no matter how many candles or swipes of disinfectant tried to cover it up. The buzz of the tattoo machine had a...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-21-2025, 10:10 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 39,834
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Forum: Shadyside
04-21-2025, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 39,834
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Forum: Shadyside
04-21-2025, 01:55 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 39,834
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Forum: Shadyside
04-21-2025, 01:57 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 39,834
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Forum: Shadyside
04-21-2025, 12:46 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 39,834
Oh. Oh, he was good.
The moment the word...
Oh. Oh, he was good.
The moment the word sweetheart left his lips, her pulse jumped like it had been waiting for it all night. She’d never liked pet names. Not really. Not when they came from the...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-20-2025, 10:26 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 39,834
God, the way he looked at her.
Like she was...
God, the way he looked at her.
Like she was the answer to every bad decision he’d ever made. Like he’d do it all again just to end up in this booth with her, firelit by cheap pendant lights and...
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Forum: Shadyside
04-20-2025, 09:39 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 39,834
Oh, he was good.
The way he said her name...
Oh, he was good.
The way he said her name like it was a dare. The way his fingers danced on her skin like they already knew the rhythm of her pulse. The way he looked at her—not like she was a...
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