Ashley Park:

… he said yesterday: “We’re stuck in a time loop.”

Which really upset me because that’s what…

Coral Walia:

I was driving to a stranger’s place to return the jacket they gave me that night at the bar.

The address led to a cemetery where I found a gravestone with their name on it and one beside it with my name.

Zara Bukhari:

I woke up to the sound of my own breathing.

Then I felt it, warm and slow, on my neck.

Sophia Sorena:

I froze as my dog whimpered and pawed at me, its eyes fixed on the corner of the room.

When I dared to look, hundreds of pale, unblinking eyes stared back at me.

Madison Bass:

I woke up in the middle of the night to a scratching sound at my door, but when I opened it nothing was there.

As I turned back toward my bed, I heard the same clawing coming from inside my closet.

Ethan Reichek:

“Welcome to Australia,” the captain of the plane said.

I thought we were going to Austria.

Maximus Bui:

I laid on the couch watching television as I felt a cold hand touch my arm.

I was home alone.

Angelina Tao:

While I was home alone, I dialed my mother’s phone until I heard it ring in the next room.

As I reached out to hang up, a shrill voice answered.

McKenzie Le:

I look under my bed to see my purple Labubu staring at me with its beady eyes and mischievous grin.

As I got back into bed, I once again saw the same Labubu hungrily eyeing me.

Vaishali Raol:

Something darted in the corner of my eye just as I was moving away from my mirror.

I saw my reflection smiling with their arms crossed saying, “Ready to switch?”

Catherine Xue:

My dog wouldn’t stop barking at the door.

When I went to investigate, I heard my own voice on the other side eerily saying “Let me in.”

Zoe Gamboa:

I fell asleep in my bed.

I woke up in a coffin.

Ava Novak:

At the store yesterday, I saw my mother with a knife.

My mother is in prison for murder.

Emily Brams:

The doll wasn’t where I left it.

There was another one in its place.

Davis Adams:

“Do you have your reading log?”

Minus two points.