The Ironwood Visitor
In the autumn of 1987, my great-aunt Marguerite passed away at the family’s old farmhouse in Ironwood, a place where the pines grew so thick they seemed to swallow the...
In the autumn of 1987, my great-aunt Marguerite passed away at the family’s old farmhouse in Ironwood, a place where the pines grew so thick they seemed to swallow the...
When Lola Ising was a small girl, she lived with her family in a sprawling ancestral house in the Visayan lowlands, a two-story wooden structure with a steep, corrugated iron...
The dust swirled around Elias’s battered ute, a perpetual companion on the endless drive from Oodnadatta towards the distant, shimmering heat haze of Coober Pedy. He’d been on the road...
In the autumn of my tenth year, the house on Birch Lane began to hum. Not the familiar groan of the furnace or the rattle of old pipes, but a...
The first time Mara noticed it, she thought it was a smudge on the kitchen window, a smear of last night’s rain and pollen. But when she went to wipe...
Old Man Hollis never talked about the night his engine died on the Mountain Loop Road. He’d spit tobacco and change the subject if you brought it up, his gnarled...
The first time I noticed them, I blamed a smudge on my glasses. I was standing in my kitchen, drying a wine glass, when a small, milky-white sphere drifted past...
The afternoon sun bled through the blinds, painting stripes across Maya’s desk as she worked on her novel. Her cat, Pixel, a sleek tabby with an obsession for laser pointers,...
I’ve never told anyone this, not even my therapist. They’d lock me up or chalk it up to a teenager’s overactive imagination. But here, where I know others have felt...
Three nights ago, my partner, Mira, and I retired to our attic bedroom in the old lighthouse keeper’s cottage. The wind was howling off the sea, rattling the windows in...
I never thought much about the apartment above mine. It was just the place where the elderly Mr. Hargrove lived, or used to live until he passed in March. The...
The house at 13 Birchwood Lane had always felt like a holding pen for someone else’s life. I was 17, and my family had rented the bottom floor of a...
When I was seven, my baby tooth finally wiggled free, and I was certain the Mouse King would come. In our village of Marrow Falls, it wasn’t a fairy who...
I never saw a ghost, not in the way people mean. I saw something else, something that made me question the very nature of my vision and, eventually, my sanity....
The fire at the old mill house had been a blessing in disguise, or so I thought. We moved into the Bluebird Inn, a faded Victorian hotel that had seen...
I was twenty-two and broke, sleeping on a mattress that smelled like old beer and regret. My buddy Leo had found us a place: the main floor of a crumbling...
The evening had settled into our small rented cottage on the edge of the Harlow Woods, a place chosen for its isolation and the promise of a quiet weekend. My...
The house on Meridian Lane was old, with creaking floorboards and a furnace that groaned in the night like a trapped beast. I’d moved in a month ago, after my...
I was four when the world taught me to lie about what I saw. My mother called them dust motes, my father said it was just my imagination running wild....
In the autumn of 2004, I was living in a secluded farmhouse on the outskirts of a town called Wetmore, where the only neighbors were a family of deer and...
Mara, a 28-year-old book conservator, had never been more than a routine visitor to St. Aldhelm’s General Hospital, a sprawling Victorian structure in the rain-soaked outskirts of a city that...
I moved into the old farmhouse on the edge of the marsh six months ago, seeking solitude after my marriage fell apart. The house was cheap, and the landlord was...
The house we rented on Bramblewick Lane had a peculiar symmetry to it, as if the architect had designed it with a ruler and a deep fear of curves. It...
Maya’s eighteenth birthday was a muted affair, a small gathering of close friends in her grandmother’s sprawling, ivy-choked house. The place smelled of dust and old wood, and the only...
Listening to the woods...
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