Month: November 2025

When a devout woman’s long-awaited pregnancy warps into visions of blood-soaked cradles, whispering walls, and cords coiling from her own flesh, she discovers her storm-battered ancestral home enforces a generational curse — every tenth child must be born, or the house will devour her body, soul, and unborn child as its tithe. CAST LIST: Narrator:… Continue reading HORROR Festival Best Scene Reading: The Tenth Cry, by Erick von Schulz

Please tell me how you met Grandma for the first time again? How old were you? If possible peel back the citrus skin of that grapefruit. Help me crack open pecans perfectly Remind me how you used to open them with a rock. Everything you know about your trees, How tall the maple across the… Continue reading DEATH Poem: In Your Next Letter, by Emma Franklin

CW: mentions of suicide, blood, death i fight my ex-boyfriend, the pillowman (conversing with The Pillowman by Martin Mcdonagh) passing stalagmite, like kidney stones dust-drunk in the catacombs, hangs the pillowman wilting delirious in his flesh house, cave dwellers conjure necrosis in allegory, them vomiting the orchestral; shadow-side. ambien damned as clover rot breeds maggots… Continue reading HORROR Poem: i fight my ex-boyfriend, by Marina Lee

Voice Over: Val Cole

Emily suffers from extreme anxiety. Her younger sister, Meredith, is the only one who can calm her but when Meredith dies unexpectedly, Emily’s anxiety takes a dark turn exposing terrifying secrets from her family’s past and creating a sinister way of dealing with her fears. CAST LIST: Narration: Julie Sheppard Lori: Val Cole Father McMann:… Continue reading HORROR Festival 1st Scene Script: ANXIETY, by Meredith Stack

Samantha StrohbuschThe Man Or The BearShort Horror (2900 words) The antagonist in this story is lost in dream-like states, sifting through generational trauma. She bites her way out. Performed by Val Cole