Author: Amy DeBellis

  • The Prank by Amy DeBellis

    A group of kids set up to prank a peer, but things go sideways. The reveal in this story made my jaw drop.

  • Souvenirs

    A woman reminisces about a failed relationship with increasingly distressing mementos.

  • Oblivion

    About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, brought on as a sidekick to Long Covid. It’s eye-opening and terrifying: During my first year of being bedbound, I enter a decline that seems like it will never end. I’m in free fall, my baseline sinking lower and lower each month, and I can only watch as it continues, this…

  • Teeth

  • Tutant Meenage Neetle Teetles

  • Beach Tree

  • Final Ingredient

    The first sentence is all you need for a hook: “Dinner service is such a rush that it takes us a while to notice the dead cook.” It’s another sub-5 minute read that might haunt your dreams, or at least your next meal out.

  • Possession

    I don’t believe that my husband is dead. The dead cannot walk, but every night he shuffles into our bedroom and lies down next to me, swamping me with his exhale of stale corpse air, breathing with lungs that I know are as black and wrinkled as rotten plums. His smell cloying like the flowers…

  • Camera Obscura

    A young woman’s boyfriend takes her to a party full of his old friends. The host, Sam, is a girl, and it’s unclear if the boyfriend deliberately withheld that fact.