Category: Story a Day 2022

A woman recounts to story of her parents’ courtship and the fire that destroyed her father’s business. This is an interesting retelling of “Bluebeard” – it’s no accident that the narrator’s father…

A man is tormented by a story and an experience of a haunted house. Good and subtly creepy, with a dreamlike sense of dread hanging on a very stark skeleton of a…

A dog walker encounters a strange man, his even stranger dog, and a woman who seems to be following him while out on the heath. This is a quietly unsettling little story,…

Two landscapers are drawn to a foreboding hedge maze on an old estate that is being converted to a hotel. The story is not unpredictable – certainly we would expect something dreadful…

The warming climate has awakened a vengeful spirit from an abandoned mine on Svalbard, and a woman with Siberian heritage dredges up an ancient memory to try to face it. This story…

The typical misbehavior of young children ratchets up to an alarming level. This starts as a fairly anodyne, “life among the savages” story of trying to get a young child ready for…

A woman notices that a strange, decrepit house is slowly moving toward her home, leaving destruction in its wake. This is an odd, dream-like story (with actual dreams about strange houses figuring…

In the aftermath of a zombie-like plague, a girl must come to terms with the the things that she has seen and experienced, and with what other people did. When I started…

While sharing the audio assist device with his father-in-law at a movie, a man discovers that he can tap into his father-in-law’s memories and uncovers a terrible secret. So much of the…