Garden of Fiends: Tales of Addiction Horror

by Mark Matthews

Walk in on me in a bar halfway through the night and you’d think I was perfectly at ease, comfortable in my skin, and just the best damn company. Charming, if a little quiet, confident but not cocky, and you’d be right. Catch me in the morning and you’ll end up calling the suicide hotline on my behalf.

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I wish I’d left some for just this occasion, an occasion I should have known would come. Nowadays it nearly always does. I drink to forget what drinking has done and that only seems to make it worse, summoning specters I can never outrun.

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THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE by Jessica McHugh

One of the most disturbing short stories ive read

Of course it was hopeless. She'd spent her entire life avoiding hope. Time and again that warm, tingling feeling—hope—had proven to only lead to disappointment. And by letting the slightest hint of hope to creep into her life,

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