Ghost stories from Oklahoma

The Paint and the Chill

In the fall of 2004, I moved into a small craftsman bungalow in the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. My friend Elena had inherited it from her grandmother, who had passed...

The Lathe of the Hollow

I’ve never been one for superstition. My name is Elias, and I’ve spent most of my adult life as a machinist, a man who trusts the precise turn of a...

The Sunroom’s Arithmetic

My name is Elias, and I’ve lived in the old Cranston house for three years now. It’s a sprawling Victorian with a sunroom that catches the morning light, but something...

The Constant in the Crawlspace

When I was four, my cousin Marcus thought it was funny to shut me in the old chest freezer in the garage. It was one of those heavy, coffin-like things...

The Hollow Rhythm

Mara had always been the grounded one, the anchor in her relationship with Leo. For two years, they had built a life together in their small, rented duplex on the...

The Furnace of the Last Winter

Four winters ago, I moved into a drafty farmhouse at the edge of a town called Hollow Creek with my fiancé, Marcus. I was twenty-six then, now I’m thirty. The...

The Last Visitor

Marta was seven when her grandfather, Tomas, died. It was sudden, a fever that turned to pneumonia, and he was gone in a day. The family was in shock. Marta’s...

The Half-Open Curtain

It was a humid August night, the kind that made the air feel thick and sticky, even with all the windows open in our old farmhouse. I was the only...

The Key to Room 14

The summer of 2007 had been a blur of paint fumes and box flaps. We’d poured every dollar into the old Victorian, scraping away decades of grime to reveal the...

The Last Cigarette

I’ve always been particular about order—maybe it’s a sickness. So when the off-campus house fell into chaos after the end-of-semester blowout, I was the one who stayed behind with a...

The Grinning Hollow

I was eleven the summer we moved to my grandfather’s farm, a place trapped between the dry bones of the prairie and the endless, chattering wind. We kept a few...

The Permanent Resident

Before I turned sixteen, I thought I understood the rules of my world. I was raised in a devout household, my father a deacon, and my mother a woman who...

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