User:EmpyrealInvective/My Stories

Ad Nauseam, Ad Mortem, Ad Infinitum Trilogy

 * Ad Nauseam, Ad Mortem, Ad Infinitum (A teenager learns about a horrifying gift to see the dead that shapes his outlook on life.)

At My Most Human State Series

 * At My Most Human State (A plane crashes in the mountains and the survivors are left struggling to survive by any means necessary.)
 * Paradoxical (A 'chilling' re-telling of events from a different perspective.)
 * The Journal of Kaneonuskatew Blackwood (The conclusion follows the now homeless Kaneonuskatew as he seeks to understand his nightmares.)

Nicaraguan Myths and Stories

 * I.C.U. (A Peace Corps volunteer finds himself stalked by the relentless ghost of a girl who hung herself in front of his house.)
 * Downpour (A doctor finds himself in dire straits after an encounter with the infamous sisinique.)
 * The Crying Woman (A retelling of the Central American legend "La Llorona")
 * La Carretanagua (A story told to me by my Nicaraguan grandmother about her encounter with "La Carretanagua.")
 * True Tales of Terror from the Peace Corps (The series concludes with a mini-anthology of true events that my friends and I experienced.)

Occupational Hazards

 * A Night in the Hospital (A hospital security guard recounts how he lost his job.)
 * Echoing Calls (A 911 dispatcher begins to receive 911 calls from a brutal homicide that happened years before.)
 * Lavender (A psychiatrist deals with a scorned stalker after an abysmal first date.)

Reminisces From the Apocalypse Trilogy

 * I'm Not a Monster (A grave digger learns a horrible secret about his co-worker when he agrees to aid him in a grave robbing excursion.)
 * She's Gone (Ben Jones deals with the death of his wife while trying to raise his daughter.)
 * Campfire Tales (One man's tale of survival during the initial days of the zombie apocalypse.)

The Whispers Through the Wall Series

 * An Encounter in a Cheap Motel (A man reaches the end of his rope in a cheap motel room.)
 * Whispers Heard Through the Wall (A man staying in a cheap motel begins hear odd whispering and sounds coming from the room adjoining his.)

Two Possibilities Story Arc

 * Two Possibilities (A lone astronaut awakens from a cryogenic sleep and tries to piece together what has gone wrong in their expedition.)
 * Christmas in July (Robert Thorn wakes up one morning in Escondido California to find it snowing, in July.)

Stand-alone Stories

 * A White Horse (A psychological experiment goes awry.)
 * Ashes: A Soldier's Diary (A soldier sits down in a park to begin a session of therapeutic writing. The writing does not go well.)
 * Billy's Wish (A trollpasta about the catastrophic after-effects of one child's wish.)
 * Black Hole Sun A vignette of stories told by by protagonists facing their inevitable end.
 * Children's Games (A childhood game of hide and seek amongst teenagers yields unexpected results.)
 * Danse Macabre (Frau Troffea catches boogie fever, take care you don't catch it as well. Based on actual events.)
 * Don't Know You from Adam (Olivia tries to come to terms with having prosopagnosia and recieving unwanted advances from an obsessed stalker.)
 * EmpyrealInvective's Collection of Short Stories (A collection of short stories ranging from two sentences to seven hundred and fifty words.)
 * It's Just a Mirage (Dalia Livingstone is a girl afflicted with wanderlust who decides to visit the Gobi desert.)
 * Ouroboros (A serial killer reminisces on his methodology and favorite kills, unaware that the world is not what it seems.)
 * Post-Apocalyptic Solitude (The last man on earth wanders the ruined earth after a cataclysmic event.)
 * Stalk (Paul becomes infatuated with a customer at the gas station. What happens if his obsession is unrequited?)
 * Tenebrous (Lionel begins a deadly game of cat and mouse with a shadowy creature while combating his nyctophobia.)
 * The Chaplain (A man recounts his experience in the war and how his encounter with a chaplain irreversibly altered his life.)
 * The Creeping Horror (A boy decides to call on the creeping horror with his friend and this ends with some unintended results.)
 * The Cuckoo Conundrum (Baby monitors result in a terrifying conundrum.)
 * The Die (A collaborative writing project featuring authors much better than me...)
 * The Scariest Thing to Me (A true story about a weekend home alone when I was a child. Also in the story, I punch a ghost through the heavens themselves.)
 * Ultimatums (Tom gets an ultimatum from his extra-marital lover, Alexandra.)
 * Waking Life (Whenever William Pilgrim goes to sleep, he wakes up as a completely new person.)
 * Wasted (Richard Stone is an agoraphobic who is falling apart, literally.)
 * What Remains... (A college student helps his deceased friend by cleaning out his apartment, finds a figurative skeleton in the closet, later he finds an actual one that literally pops out.)
 * What We Are (A man in abducted in front of Area 51 by aliens, what a coincidence.)

Novellas

 * A Good Ending (A writer wanders the wastelands on his way to the coast. The story is told in self-contained episodes detailing his encounters with addicts, cannibals, and self-deified sadists.)
 * The Quarantine (A group of high school students find themselves in quarantine after a biological outbreak in the classroom below theirs.)
 * Tu Fui Ego Eris (A novella following seven survivors attempts to live through the zombie apocalypse. Set in the same universe as "We R Leejun.")
 * We R Leejun (This novella is about the zombie apocalypse and is a cypher studying self-identity and sociological theories. Also there are boner jokes.)

Hall of Shame (Self-Quality Controlled Creepypastas)

 * A God Complex
 * A Modest Proposal (A take on Swift's "A Modest Proposal." Abandoned due to difficulty in plot progression.)
 * Antagonistic (A true story about my violent response to a certain sedative.) Not uploaded due to a weak undeveloped story.
 * Fifty Percent (A theory on the parasite Toxoplasma Gondii.) Not uploaded due to its clichéd "you're next!" ending and similarity to other stories.
 * Haunted
 * Into the Breach (A "Fallout 3" story)
 * Macabre Nursery Rhymes (A boy deals with the loss of his grandfather, parents, and everything he holds dear.) Was not uploaded due to issues with shoe-horning in nursery rhymes, poor prose, and a pointlessly dark and fairly clichéd ending.
 * Master of Marionettes (A boy learns of his ability to control/marionette people.) Not uploaded due to pointless shock moments and a clichéd twist at the end that is way too easily predicted.
 * Memories (A woman keeps a diary to try and stave off the rapid deterioration of her memories.) Weeded out due to issues with plot. If she is losing her memory, can't she just read what she had previously written in the journal? It was/is a flawed concept.