Hiatus One
Top Five Horror Stories So it's been awhile! 52 Short Lives went on hiatus while I took a break from my year long commitment, but I'm...
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Jan 14, 20224 min read
Week Fifty
A Lamb To Slaughter This week's story is a bite sized murder story from an unlikely culprit... The Facts Text: Lamb To Slaughter ...
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Jan 7, 20224 min read
Week Forty Nine
The Tuesday Night Club Lets dive back into the mystery genre, but this time we're not looking at great male detectives. No this time who...
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Dec 24, 20213 min read
Week Forty Seven
The Night Before Christmas There is a magic to Christmas Eve when you're a kid. There's a story behind that of course... The Facts Text:...
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Oct 29, 20217 min read
Week Thirty Nine
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Week 39 means we're 3/4 of the way through this 52 week long project! Let's celebrate with our final spooky...
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Oct 22, 20217 min read
Week Thirty Eight
The Call of Cthulhu There are some horrors we can't even imagine... The Facts Text: The Call of Cthulhu ...
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Sep 3, 20213 min read
Week Thirty-One
The Eyes Have It What do the eyes have? How did they get it? Where are they going with it? Why are they roving, moving, examining,...
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Aug 20, 20214 min read
Week Twenty Nine
August Heat This story takes place on August 20th! And today is August 20th! Funny how that works out. Heat, a ghost story without...
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Jul 23, 20214 min read
Week Twenty Five
The Interlopers There's something about rivalry: the intense hatred mixed with begrudging respect, a relationship of equals and yet...
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May 28, 20214 min read
Week Seventeen
Flowers For Algernon Here's a test: what do progress reports, ethically questionable science, and a white mouse named Algernon all have...
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May 14, 20214 min read
Week Fifteen
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall A glimpse into the mind and life of a woman dying. Let's hold her hand in these last moments. Themes of...
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Apr 16, 20214 min read
Week Eleven
The Lottery A beautiful day. A normal town. Its lottery day! Doesn't everyone want to win the lottery? The Facts Text: The Lottery ...
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Mar 26, 20214 min read
Week Eight
The Adventure of The Speckled Band A best friend/roommate of a brilliant and eccentric amateur detective narrates how said friend...
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Mar 12, 20215 min read
Week Six
Story/Novel Eight, Day One, The Heptameron "A man having lain with his wife, believing that he was in bed with his servant, sends his...
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Mar 5, 20214 min read
Week Five
Robbie Are you afraid of the robot uprising? Surely Isaac Asimov, one of the forefathers of science fiction is the reason this trope...
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Feb 12, 20213 min read
Week Two
The Masque of Red Death What's there to do in the middle of a plague but lock out the poor and throw an extravagant party? I mean what...
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Feb 5, 20213 min read
Week One
The Yellow Wallpaper Are the shapes in the wallpaper really there? Or is our protagonist just going crazy in her isolation? The tension...
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