A student moves to an attic apartment on a quiet street hoping to connect with the beautiful girl across the street, and finds himself squeezed out from the society of the neighborhood…
Category: Story a Day 2022
“Orez” by Budi Darma
A woman whose family seems cursed by miscarriage and birth defects has a child of her own, who seems possessed by an especially rambunctious and even violent nature. This story has an…
“The Family M” by Budi Darma
A man living in a large apartment building becomes obsessed with a family living nearby, at first wishing them ill and then wishing he could participate in their love and affection. This…
“Joshua Karabish” by Budi Darma
A young man submits his sickly roommate’s poems to a contest after his roommate’s death, and feels himself afflicted by the roommate’s illness. Very much the same milieu as “The Old Man…
“The Old Man With No Name” by Budi Darma
A foreign student living in an attic apartment observes his elderly neighbors, including an old man whom he sees standing in the window across the street with a gun and with whom…
“Rogue Farm” by Charlie Stross
A farmstead is threatened by a biohacked organic collective creature with plans to launch itself to Jupiter. This is an insanely inventive and rollicking story; I enjoyed how it throws one insane…
“American Remake of a Japanese Ghost Story” by Laird Barron
A woman cursed to pursue dark forces encounters a lonely, vengeful spirit and invites it along on her adventures.
“Knock Three Times” by Seanan McGuire
A young medium receives a cryptic but timely warning before a great disaster.
“The One Word I Can’t Say” by S.P. Miskowski
A woman seeks to exorcise the annoying ghost of her sister. Surprisingly affecting.
“The Mad Monk of Motor City” by Gwendolyn Kiste
The ghost of Rasputin haunts a crumbling apartment building until he is outwitted by a resident.