Short Stories
by Krafto Matix

Story 01 Eat Your Vegetables A pseudo-orphan with very big lips navigates the foster care system with a chair and a philosophy. Dark, funny, and surprisingly moving. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 02 Why I'm Never Sleeping Over at Grandpa's House Again One Friday night. A diabetic grandpa, a corpse on Long Island, a close-talking car enthusiast, and a legless great-grandmother on the kitchen floor. In the shit. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 03 Closure Irving hadn't spoken to his family in 20 years. His wife Santana — Miss Bogota 1985, doctorate in biochemistry, government researcher — thought Thanksgiving was the perfect time to fix that. She was right. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 04 Brain Damage One bored Saturday night. Two hits of acid. A stuffed kangaroo named Alberto. A talking pickle. A concussed mother. And the entire McGillicutty clan about to get a Yankee cup full of biohazard dropped on their heads. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 05 Don't Fuck With Mr. Bubble 10 year old Damien wants to paint his room turquoise. BettyJo says it's the guest room. Columbo is on TV. There is a sheet of acid on the bedside table. Mr. Bubble has opinions. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 06 My Pumas Smell Funky 14th birthday. Two Colombian hitmen. A chainsaw that won't start. Herman handcuffed to a shower rod. And one pair of pumas that haven't left a teenage boy's feet in a month. The ultimate weapon. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 07 Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold But Lukewarm Will Do in a Pinch BettyJo won't buy Danny the last copy of What If #1. God appears on the ceiling with a suggestion. Big Fatso has terrible timing. The shrimp are already gone. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 08 To This Day I Can't Stand the Sight or Smell of Eggs Hurricane Gloria. A dorm hallway. Jerry Lipschitz and his mother's rotten egg salad. Twenty-four witnesses. One unanimous vote. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 09 Why I Didn't Get Bar Mitzvahed, You Betcha Nachman Lipschitz misses his stop on the D train. Atnima has a butcher knife, purple pills, a dead girl on the floor, and a very specific plan. Mr. Bubble makes another appearance. You betcha. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 10 Iggy's Been a Very Very Bad Boy A ten year old in bloody Hulk underoos. A new neighbour named Ernie. A golden retriever named Roy. An avocado-faced woman with a hammer. Two cops. One large pepperoni pizza. This is how Tuesday goes. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 11 How The Buddha Spent Christmas Larry loves his dog. Lucy wants babies. A Swedish stewardess named Ingrid has other plans. Nine days. A goat milking machine. The Buddha has opinions. The most eventful Christmas ever recorded. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 12 What Really Happened to Amelia Earhart A 114 year old chemist. New Guinea, 1937. A silver cigarette case that once belonged to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fred Noonan. A time-released mickey. The world's largest naval search. Mystery solved. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 13 Fool Me Once A stale marriage. A second honeymoon. A Felix The Cat clock at the witching hour. A butcher knife. A cold sweat. Repeat. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice — there is an ax in the garage. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 14 The Bully in the Basement Peter has been in the basement since 1980. DJ Mindfuck explains how he got there. The Momster. Herman. A freezer full of TV dinners. A shock collar. Three decades of duct tape. This is what happens to bullies. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 15 Johnny Angel Magic mushrooms. A new dream house. Mo writes on a legal pad with her wrong hand. A dead man named Johnny Angel has opinions about his murder. Mo's throat. Strychnine. Does it go better with Tang or Kool Aid? 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 16 Night Shifters Morris works at a bank. Morris has a nagging wife. Morris is obsessive about ear hygiene. Morris is also a werewolf. The elevator is stuck. The sun is setting in 22 minutes. Poor Hector from maintenance. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 17 Smelvira Summer 1981. Camp Tardy. A girl whose name was a birth certificate typo. A rowboat. A dead priest in a wheelbarrow. A hundred campers holding hands. A helicopter. Men in black. Fuck the summer of '81. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 18 Somebody Make It Stop? Danny works from home. His new neighbour Dr. Feliz Senderos invented Brain 2.0. One sugar cube. Days of superhuman coding. A glowing nipple. Einstein on the Beach on repeat. The neighbour has vanished. Only a turd remains. 🔺 r/nosleep Read the story → Story 19 A Less Than Cunning Linguist A Filipino wife in Arkansas. Twenty-five years. One very specific grievance. The best beef stew Buford ever ate. Removed by Reddit mods for being too much even for r/nosleep. Make of that what you will. 🚫 Too hot for Reddit Read the story → Story 20 Silicon Based Life Form The gray man. A strip club called Wiggles. Dr. Grayman's Silicon Magic puts Mother Nature to shame. Bullets bounce off Juggsy Bubbles. The death knell of family values. Stay out of strip clubs named Wiggles. 🚫 Too hot for Reddit Read the story → Story 21 Ghost Wedgie A 120 year old Brooklyn brownstone. A nagging wife. Mr. Bubble the golden retriever. A ghost that yanks panties into ass cracks at 3:33 AM. The 2008 housing crash. Broken hearts for assholes. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 22 Grandma's Serving Soup for Lunch A Copacabana showgirl turned Florida widow. Canasta night. Two disrespectful grandchildren. The secret ingredient in her Tuscan soup. Merry Christmas. Say it. Merry. Christmas. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 23 In the Land of the Blind the Troll Pencil Twins named Prudy and Trudy. Born Again Bob smells like Funyuns. A troll pencil. A car jack on a rainy Christmas Eve. A gas leak on the night the family reunites. Eighty million dollars. Lady Death. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 24 Not the Honeymoon I Was Expecting Martha and Leslie. Five million dollars. A dead aunt in Mississippi. A case of gin in a creaky old house. Something terrible in the night. An iPad with WiFi. The story ends mid-sentence. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 25 Now You're Just Being Snarkastic Cyndi is 18 and has finished her first horror story. Daddy has opinions and a letter opener. Flesh dancers in Justin Bieber tees. Entitties don't preciate no snarkastic punks playing them for fools. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 26 One Night in Bangkok A Thai bar girl who has never let herself fall in love. A young American who is different. He buys her shoes. A single tear slides down his sleeping cheek. Somebody else loves your kidneys more. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 27 A Fugue State Mr. Kicklez. His court-mandated shrink. Tree-fitty a session. A spork. A Hellboy Zippo. A Ball Park hot dog left on a windowsill since the summer he turned twelve. Mangia. Ketchup would really help. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 28 Batshit Crazy Danny Lemongello's 97th midlife crisis. Cocaine. Patron Tequila. A Korean manicurist named Jeannie. A very cold young man at the door who looks exactly like young Danny. A bat on the window sill every night. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 29 Chief Ferguson of Macabre Mississippi Cain and Abel McElroy. Macabre Mississippi. A priest's collar left in the rain. A machete nailed to a chair with railroad spikes. A blood-red lollipop. Big John McElroy's grave. Justice served twenty years cold. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 30 Stephen King Meets the Late BettyJo Lemongello and Is None Too Pleased God tells Danny he really fucked up. The messiah fetus. A boosted Beemer up I-95. Stephen King has cocaine and opinions. Pet Sematary. Heeeeere's BettyJo. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 31 Safe Word A gin-soaked motel room. Sister Katherine. The submissive who won't wake up. A rolled-up Penny Saver. A Gideon's bible. Father Flanagan has devastating news. We really should have had a safe word. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 32 Shelly Keller: 5th Grade Teacher Spring 1978. Vinnie Barbarino. A classroom prank. A reflexive elbow to a pigeon chest. Cory had a congenital heart defect. The DA elected not to indict. Stage IV pancreatic cancer. Carpe fucking diem. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 33 The Egg Definitely Came First Hurricane Gloria 1985. Jerry Lipschitz and his mother's rancid egg salad. A steak knife. The lights go out. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. Fuckin' Jerry. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 34 The Redheaded Mortician A midtown diner at 2 AM. A flower in her red hair. A mortician knows her way around a stiffy. A hospital bed with a remote control. Spotty Merlot. The balcony. She gets away with it. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 35 There's a Reason There's a Sandwich on My Head Simon wears hermetically sealed Limburger sandwiches on his beanie propeller. His wife is otherwise occupied with Herve. A Glock. A Jackson Pollock impression on white sheets. Not guilty by reason of insanity. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 36 Toys in the Attic A fifteen-year-old at a flea market. BettyJo and the crack dealers behind the trucks. A wooden bokken sword at a knife fight. A gargoyle with opinions. The butterfly effect. One of the finest catastrophes ever prevented. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 37 Viggo's Vomitorium Viggo is 29 and approaching 700lbs. Happy Yukes Center promises transformation. 200 flat panel monitors. 2000 cockroaches. Justin Bieber at full blast. 250,000 live stream hits. Viggo's mother has escaped the asylum. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story → Story 38 Never Trust a Vampire With Your Cherry Overnight Danny refuses his bar mitzvah. Foster care. Nachman Lipschitz says you betcha. A Jewish summer camp in Pennsylvania. Mindy has an incredible ass and a bloodthirst. Chris Montoya's crossbow. Training day. The county fair. 📖 Crucifiction collection Read the story →