Who is that, standing behind you?
queer adjective
/kwir/
  1. strange; peculiar; odd
  2. relating to or characterized by sexual attraction to the same gender; or, a person whose sexual attraction is not heterosexual and/or a person whose gender identity is not cisgender​

My Wife Locked Me in the Basement

Fiction // 6/16/2022

My wife loves me. I remind myself of this as I stare at the steel door at the top of the stairs. I don’t try to open it. I know that it is locked. I can't remember how I know that.

I can’t remember a lot of things.

Or that's not right. I do sometimes. Time is just slippery, present devouring the past in an endless ouroboros. The memories slither to the surface before they wriggle away again, too fast for me to grasp.

I can feel them wriggling. I feel them in my ears, behind my eyes. In the throbbing in my temples.

HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE MOONGAZER? (PART 2)​

FICTION // 8/11/2021

I''ve  finally emerged from my chrysalis to  bring you another story!  This one is a collab with two other authors on r/NoSleep, so part 1 is linked at the beginning. Part 2 is below or on Reddit!
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Part 1

I shouldn’t have turned around after Naomi told us to run. I thought she was just messing with us, the same way I had been messing with Emelia. Moongazer wasn’t real - the figure on the path had to be some kind of prop, right? A gimmick to mess with dumb tourists like us.

I stumbled mid-turn and nearly fell to my knees, my swollen, twisted ankle throbbing beneath my weight. I froze where I stood; the figure’s blank face had turned toward me, and even without eyes, I could feel the weight of his cold, empty stare. Moongazer extended one of his long, pale legs and stepped forward, halving the distance between us in one stride.

Not real.  My mind screamed at me. It can’t be real!​

About the author

Hello! I'm Sarah Fettke, a horror writer from Kansas City, Missouri.  I was born in Wichita, Kansas and earned my BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Kansas.