An aspiring eighteen-year-old author realizes she is a character in an unwritten horror novel and must use her storytelling knowledge to survive. ***** Eighteen-year-old romance writer, Ima Jean Paige, questions the afterlife following the recent death of h...
Wattys Shortlist 2022! | Kyla Shepard, a sixteen-year-old orphan who conjures massive ink-like creatures with her thoughts, must learn to tame the monsters before they consume everything in their path, including her. **** While surviving in the blackened two-mile radius within the qu...
Four strangers are trapped in an elevator and forced to reveal details about their most malicious deeds within the hour to prevent a fall to their death. But as secrets are exposed, tension escalates, leading to a reality no one is prepared for. ***** Tasha Pierce receives an anonymous invitation she believes is from...
After being ordered by the State to undergo Deep Sleep, a treatment for troubled teens, Jo awakens in the hospital with sporadic and unexplained memories. Upon celebrating her rebirthday, she recalls strange past events that makes her question reality. Did she really awaken, or has she become trapped in Deep Sleep? ...
Supernatural thriller | Rising fashion influencer Rhea is gearing up for her runway debut, but her perfect world is upended when she finds herself haunted by a ghostly doppelganger. ***** Twenty-four-year-old Rhea Patel has it all-the career in fashion, the handsome boyfriend-slash-manager, and a rapidly approaching r...
A tarot reader aids a mysterious man who believes she is the only one who can help him return to his true home in the eerie Manaan caverns where they must fight the natural and supernatural to stay alive. ***** Maxine Shepard is a tarot reader who has survived several traumas in her twenty-five years of life. Without...
World-renowned ghost hunter Bruce Dunce is recognized for capturing evidence of Old Henry Humphrey's famous phantom footsteps. Years later, excitement over his discovery dies down, forcing Bruce to participate in a one-on-one interview with Humphrey's skeptic sister to increase interest in his online paranormal show:...
Hiding out in an abandoned shack from their abusive pasts, Allison and Ethan Bryson entertain themselves by imaging all sorts of curious characters near the frozen lake outside their hut. But after Allison witnesses a man murder a young woman and discard her body beneath the icy lake, the line between real and imagine...
Deep in the Arizona desert live a girl and her dad, burying secrets--and bodies. ***** Mesa Kingston's first memory of burying a corpse was at eight years old. Back then it had been the carcass of a large lizard her dad found that they buried in the...
A grieving man obsessed with karma seeks vengeance on his brother's murderer by implementing an eye for an eye tactic while ignoring the true laws of cause and effect. #TheOneThatGotAway Copyright © 2020 by L.L. Sanders.
GOLD WINNER 2016 FRIGHT FEST! What's done in the dark will come to light ... Those words are engraved on the door and offer the only clue as to why I'm trapped in this windowless room with ... a chair. The old dining chair and the overwhelming sense of someone watching begins my unsettling journey to discover who's re...
Harvey "Dig" Stone searches the dark city streets for the elusive Ms. Sunshine, hoping to avoid the dead man in his coat closet. ___ *Featured in @IanRCooper's Take Away the Saints anthology 3rd place in the Sass Awards' Oneshot category!
Two vicious, bloodthirsty canines confront a paralyzed father as they force him to face the consequences of his actions. ***** #WelcomeToTheBlumhouse Word Count: 498
This night is significant. It's Delaney's twenty-first birthday. It's also the one-year anniversary of a life-changing experience. But the only gift Delaney receives is one she'd rather forget. ~~~ #TeamUpChallenge Team #ThePatronSaintsOfShadows @IanRCooper @shellyxleonn @elfordalley @LLSanders
The nurses say the creatures that roam the halls of the ward aren't real, that it's all in my head. The meds should fix me, so why am I seeing more of those monsters lately? And what if--just what if--they're more than figments of my imagination? Copyright 2016 by L.L. Sanders
Bronze winner of #ProjectRefresh 2016 Halloween contest | As a way to cope with the psychological trauma of being abducted and held captive last Halloween, Andrea and her girlfriends meet once a week to imagine gruesome scenarios of revenge on the man responsible. But as the night comes to an end, it becomes more twis...
This Christmas, little Jake is visited by an odd, discolored stain on his bedroom wall. The tarnished spot resembles a human figure bearing a gift. Is it a case of pareidolia or has Santa come early? In any case, it shows no sign of leaving. ---- Featured in the @tenebris_somnia Dark December anthology
SHORT/THRILLER/SUSPENSE: Jackson receives a call from a distraught stranger intent on talking to someone before she ends her life. He's forced to take on the role of crisis counselor in an attempt to save the caller. Once he discovers the caller is nearby, he puts both of their lives at stake as he secretly sets out t...
SHORT/PSYCHOLOGICAL: A dark glimpse at a dystopian future that introduces a talented musical composer who's in search of the perfect note from the perfect vocalist in an attempt to arrange a song that will fully restore all human emotion. ------ Singers are taught to convey emotion in their songs, but this composer wa...
In a community of guarded secrets, first-time condo owner Imani Jenson is struck by mysterious blue lightning, unveiling dual personas. Amid a romantic entanglement, a sinister stalker emerges, forcing Imani to join forces with her alter ego through a diary to unravel secrets and save her unraveling life. ***** First...
A young woman must compete in a deadly televised competition, Grimm Games, to ensure her twin sister survives. Season 1 of Grimm Games ***** When twenty-year-old social activist Kam Wendell discovers her name among the contestants of the deadly television competition Grimm Games, she's stunned to realize her estrange...