Liz Zemlicka

Tag: fiction

  • Journal Entry #8

    Journal Entry #8

    Before leaving my apartment, I set everything up one last time. The camera is recording through the entire night now, not just between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. I left my laptop open on the bedside table with the sleep recording app running too.

  • Journal Entry #7

    Journal Entry #7

    Finally, she paused the video and looked at me. “I think this is your sleep paralysis demon.” I nodded like that sentence meant something reassuring. It didn’t. “What about the conversations?” I asked. “The voices?” She hesitated before answering. “I don’t know,” she admitted quietly. “But honestly… that part scares me more.” Me too. The…

  • Building a Creepy, Fun Membership

    Building a Creepy, Fun Membership

    Help me shape a members-only space just for my readers. If you joined an author membership, what would you actually be most excited to get—early access to stories, exclusive journal entries and bonus chapters, eerie audio narrations, or something else entirely? Cast your vote and share your ideas below.

  • Journal Entry #3

    Journal Entry #3

    About twenty minutes ago, a loud thump jolted me awake. Not a creak. Not pipes rattling in the walls. A real, heavy impact. The kind that makes your chest tighten before your brain even catches up. I turned on every light in the apartment immediately. Nothing. No open windows. No broken glass. No movement. Everything…

  • Journal Entry #2

    Journal Entry #2

    Every creak in the apartment kept me awake. Every shadow looked wrong. Around midnight, I even checked the locks three separate times. But sometime after 3:00 a.m., exhaustion finally won. This morning, the app recorded another conversation.

  • I Drove Through a Town That Doesn’t Exist

    I Drove Through a Town That Doesn’t Exist

    Weather-beaten buildings leaned at uneasy angles along the single dirt road. Their paint had long ago peeled away under years of sun and snow, leaving gray wood exposed like old bone. A rusted sign creaked above the entrance to the general store, swinging slowly whenever the cold mountain breeze passed through. Most of the windows…

  • I Thought I Bought a Dream Home. I Was Wrong.

    I Thought I Bought a Dream Home. I Was Wrong.

    The house stood at the end of the street like something that had outlived the rest of the neighborhood by sheer stubbornness alone. Built more than a century ago, the Victorian mansion rose three stories high beneath steep gables and weather-darkened slate shingles, its narrow windows glinting faintly behind curtains yellowed with age. A round…

  • Introducing: “The Darkness Between Realms”

    Introducing: “The Darkness Between Realms”

    Stranded, Nina teams up with Calista, another human trapped there, and forms an uneasy alliance with locals who deal in warnings and information. As Nina traces the shoe “signature” across towns and trade routes, she learns the disappearances aren’t random—they’re a system

  • Technical Difficulties

    Technical Difficulties

    Meeting Ricky at work led to a deep connection, blossoming into a love story. Strange events unfolded in their apartment, involving a mysterious figure and a hacking incident. They faced eerie occurrences, including unexplained noises and unsettling encounters. Despite fear and uncertainty, they remained determined to confront the unknown, eventually deciding to seek refuge elsewhere.