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In the Storm’s Eye It Dwells – He escapes the storm but not the truth. The girl knows. #ShortStory #Debut #Microfiction #TwistedRoads #IndieAuthor #HorrorCommunity #HorrorFiction #SciFiHorror #DaretoShare #IndieHorror #HorrorWriters #ScaryStories
In the Storm’s Eye It Dwells #Debut #ShortStory
A desperate driver escapes a storm—only to find himself trapped in something far worse. The girl knows why. He won’t listen.
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January 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A Hole Not Even for One — dawn, a truck and a secret that will not lie still. Read the short horror. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #BodyHorror #LiminalHorror
A Hole Not Even for One – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
At dawn a man sits in his truck with soil on his hands and a memory that refuses to stay buried as a voice and the bushland keep tally of what he has done.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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I Dragged Your Arse Along, Because You Belong - A family dinner becomes a promise that refuses release. Read the nightmare. Share it if you dare. Do it now. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #BodyHorror #LiminalHorror
I Dragged Your Arse Along, Because You Belong – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
At a family Christmas, a man realises his apologies became a chain that will not loosen—past confessions bind him to a fate he cannot escape.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Ten years ago, I wrote the first horror story I ever posted online.
I thought it was a zombie story. Looking back now, I think it was always a tragedy about grief, obsession, and refusing to let go. #DailyGrind #WritingCommunity #TheGrind #TwistedRoads #IndieAuthor #HorrorCommunity #HorrorFiction
Daily Grind – 10 Years Later #WritingCommunity #Writing #TheGrind #10Years
Ten years after first posting One Love, Matthew Tonks reflects on the story that unknowingly shaped the kind of horror he would spend the next decade writing. What began as a raw zombie tragedy slowly became something far more personal about grief, obsession, and emotional ruin.
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May 13, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Send What You Can't and I'll Show You His Name - A preacher sells salvation for coin and the congregation answers with something worse. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #BodyHorror #LiminalHorror
Send What You Can’t and I’ll Show You His Name – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A televangelist’s promise of salvation curdles into a public rite of blood and worship when a stranger exposes the lie. Devotion mutates into violence and the congregation pays for their faith in a way no sermon could contain.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Her song twisted fate—and he chose to listen.
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A Humming That Was Never Given Words #Debut #ShortStory
A haunting song spills from her lips, binding Jerome to choices he cannot escape—and to futures he cannot undo.
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April 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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The Confession Engine
You can listen to everyone else’s secrets. But the machine only works if you give it one of your own. Step closer. Put the headphones on. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #Confession #Liminal
The Confession Engine – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A machine that lets you hear everyone else’s secrets demands one thing in return—your own.
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February 27, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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A glowing hole sings in the static—what crawls from it fills the lungs, drowns the scream, and tears the body hollow. #ShortStory #Debut #Microfiction #TwistedRoads #IndieAuthor #HorrorCommunity #HorrorFiction #SciFiHorror #DareToShare #IndieHorror #HorrorWriters #ScaryStories
Through a Glowing Hole My Screen Screamed #Debut #ShortStory
A glowing hole sings in the static—what crawls from it fills the lungs, drowns the scream, and tears the body hollow.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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A Horror Unlike a Rock — Stranded newlyweds knock on the wrong door and find hospitality that devours more than time.
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A Horror Unlike a Rock – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
Stranded newlyweds seek a phone in a storm and end up invited to a house where hospitality is performance and bodies are bargaining chips.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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That Which Our Children Will Learn — A family supper becomes a lesson taught in blood and bone. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #BodyHorror #LiminalHorror
That Which Our Children Will Learn – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A late supper becomes a lesson in inheritance as an old matriarch teaches respect with a cleaver and a hunger that rebuilds itself—what is passed down here is not bloodlines but obedience.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Within the Polaroid I Have No Place — She thought she could buy back a photo. She was wrong.
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Within the Polaroid I Have No Place – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
She tries to buy back a Polaroid that stole her life but finds the photograph keeps accounts—money and houses are offered and yet the ledger demands a darker payment she never imagined.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Friend Group Soup — When one man’s obsession becomes a machine that turns friends into obedient smiles read it now https://mtonks.com/friend-group-soup
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Friend Group Soup – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A man’s conviction hardens into a machine that boils friends into a smiling answer. By the time the churn stops you may no longer recognise the face that takes your hand.
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October 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The Spectacle of a Spectre—When applause steals the shape of you, the flag you once were is left torn and empty #TwistedVerses #MatthewTonks #PoetryOfHorror #DarkPoetry #Creepypoetry #TwistedRoads #ShortPoem #FlashPoetry #SpilledInk #LiminalPoetry
The Spectacle of a Spectre—A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
Admiration curdles into absence as celebrity and worship conspire—a speaker learns the cost of being the thing people clap for and discovers the hollow left behind when applause becomes appetite.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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More Hands Raised in a Storm — A parish sermon turns to a tribunal of hunger and bargains. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #BodyHorror #LiminalHorror
More Hands Raised in a Storm – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A parish meeting unravels into accusation and appetite as a stranger strips away masks and the congregation reveals the bargains it keeps, pulling a glowing jewel from a heart and trading mercy for a hunger that will not be sated.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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A Song Played in Reverse — When a dead cassette wakes the car, Noel finds strangers where no one should be.
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A Song Played in Reverse – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A night in a dead car park becomes a looped nightmare when a cassette hums to life and strangers sit where no one should be and Noel learns the backseat keeps what the dark remembers—if you look too long the road will hand you back yourself.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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A Pathway That Leads Back to the Start as It Ends — Photographs map a life that folds its ending into a first breath.
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A Pathway That Leads Back to the Start as It Ends – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A man discovers a wall of photographs that chart a life he has not yet lived and meets the figure in every frame—an answer that demands his final breath fold back into his first.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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I Dragged Your Arse Along, Because You Belong - A family dinner becomes a promise that refuses release. Read the nightmare. Share it if you dare. Do it now. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #BodyHorror #LiminalHorror
I Dragged Your Arse Along, Because You Belong – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
At a family Christmas, a man realises his apologies became a chain that will not loosen—past confessions bind him to a fate he cannot escape.
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April 30, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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A Foot on the Other Shoe — a speech keeps going after the speaker starts to come apart. Watch the smile hold while everything else fails.
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2020SUX – A Foot on the Other Shoe – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A broadcast breaks open in the dark as a young leader pushes through a speech he can no longer control, and the room begins to expose the rot beneath the performance.
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April 28, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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I Saw the Image of Your Reflection - A shattered likeness learns to call your name until the voice in the glass drowns the original #TwistedVerses #MatthewTonks #PoetryOfHorror #DarkPoetry #Creepypoetry #TwistedRoads #ShortPoem #FlashPoetry #SpilledInk #LiminalPoetry
I Saw the Image of Your Reflection – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
A shattered reflection multiplies the self into wrong versions that call for completeness—each mirrored mistake pulls the speaker toward a last, hollow answer until the original voice is lost.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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A Lesson Never Learnt - A revenant bargains with a reflection while hunger waits.
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A Lesson Never Learnt – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A tormented revenant watches a sleeping woman and bargains with the reflection he has become while hunger claws at memory and mercy fades.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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I Was Not the Reflection I Saw—When the mirror answers it asks for a bargain and keeps the change. #TwistedVerses #MatthewTonks #PoetryOfHorror #DarkPoetry #Creepypoetry #TwistedRoads #ShortPoem #FlashPoetry #SpilledInk #LiminalPoetry
I Was Not the Reflection I Saw — A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
A mirror multiplies a fractured self until image and flesh trade places—recognition becomes a transaction, and the thing that answers wants to be more than a copy.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Wetness from the Printed Foot — Forgiveness printed on the wall refuses to stay silent and the keeper of the promise is unmade #TwistedVerses #MatthewTonks #PoetryOfHorror #DarkPoetry #Creepypoetry #TwistedRoads #ShortPoem #FlashPoetry #SpilledInk #LiminalPoetry
Wetness from the Printed Foot — A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
A forgiveness printed into the room keeps dampening memory until the speaker becomes an image on the wall—voices recorded in ink and skin refuse to stay quiet and the holder of the promise begins to rot inside.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Transcendental Indentations—A braided ritual of words and salt where sins stitch a mirror and the reflection refuses to be yours #TwistedVerses #MatthewTonks #PoetryOfHorror #DarkPoetry #Creepypoetry #TwistedRoads #ShortPoem #FlashPoetry #SpilledInk #LiminalPoetry
Transcendental Indentations — A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
A braided ritual of words and salt drifts on the tide of a fractured mind—shared sins stitch a mirror that yields a stranger and leaves the speaker watching from inside the glass.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Awake Too Long — Julian wakes to a ruined carnival of flesh and a violent reckoning that will not let him sleep. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #BodyHorror #LiminalHorror
Awake Too Long – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
A man wakes among ruined machines and winged beasts to a savage reckoning—sleep is stolen and mercy is measured in blood as the living deliver a verdict that will not be forgotten.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A Cut Is Almost Medicated—A verse of appetite and mirrors where wishes stitch into flesh and the reflection learns to hunger #TwistedVerses #MatthewTonks #PoetryOfHorror #DarkPoetry #Creepypoetry #TwistedRoads #ShortPoem #FlashPoetry #SpilledInk #LiminalPoetry
A Cut Is Almost Medicated—A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
A thread of appetite pulls the speaker through mirrors and mud—wishes knit into flesh and shards of truth slice the edges of self until only a hungry reflection remains.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM