Ghost stories from Afghanistan

The Parched Legion

The first time it happened, I was a private sprawled in the dirt of a place called the Arzouk Valley, though the map in my shaking hand said we were...

Guardians of the Tempest

It all began when I joined the military. My first deployment took me to a rugged terrain where conflict was a daily occurrence. One fateful day, on March 14, 2011,...

The Visitor at the Foot of the Stairs

During the summer of his sixteenth year, Elias Barlow was sent to his great-aunt’s farm in the hills of West Virginia to help with the harvest. The farm had been...

The Salt Wound

The salt mines of Lyra Valley had a way of making a person feel like the earth itself was breathing—slow, heavy, and indifferent. I had come there as a hydrologist,...

The Code of Entry

Private First Class Mara Jensen had never been one to dwell on the odd occurrences that had followed her like a loyal, if eerie, pet since childhood. A misplaced toy,...

The Salt and Bone Fields

In the fall of ’87, my brother Elias and his partner, a wiry kid named Marco, scavenged the old military ordnance grounds on the edge of the county. They called...

The Lantern’s Guests

When I was seven, my grandmother owned a crumbling lighthouse on a desolate stretch of coast. The keeper’s cottage, where we stayed, was cozy enough, but the outhouse, a rickety...

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