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The restaurant was the same as always: Sunset Grille, a local classic just a few blocks from Palisades High School. A modest but warm place, its walls were decorated with signed jerseys, trophies of uncertain origin, old photos of players, and newspaper clipp...
2025-06-06 17:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostFriday, December 1st — 2009
Palisades Training Field — 3:47 PM
The football team was in their final practice before the regional semifinal against Moose Ridge.
Today’s practice was shorter, more tactical than physical. 2025-06-05 16:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The wind sliced at perfect angles against Luke’s telekinetic shield.
He was traveling at a relatively low speed for his current level, barely two hundred kilometers per hour. He floated three hundred meters above the ground, with Nyra, the Wendigo, suspended in a gravitational field besid...
2025-06-03 18:37:44 +0000 UTC View PostMonday, November 27 – 2009
Almost a month had passed since Halloween, when the Dunphy haunted house created a new urban legend.
In football, several things had happened. First, the regular season had ended.
As scheduled, Palisades’ final game was ag...
2025-06-03 17:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post"You may kill him now."
The abominable servant took a step toward Donovan.
But the old Marlowe patriarch, drenched in blood, his face bruised and his eyes blazing with fury, did something unexpected.
His body began to burn from the inside. His veins glowed with a supernatural re...
2025-06-02 16:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe second group of victims, as Claire liked to call them, entered the house.
Three kids stepped through the entrance. The first, a boy around ten years old, tall for his age, with brown skin and a confident, slightly defiant expression.
Next to him was his six-year-old sister, also b...
2025-06-01 17:33:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Let’s go,” said the girl confidently. “We can do this.”
The girl and the boy stepped into the second room with confidence. However, as the door shut behind them, their previous certainty began to waver.
The second room, once the Dunphys’ calm and cozy living room, was now...
2025-05-30 17:11:10 +0000 UTC View PostInside the Marlowe estate, the tension was thick.
Mr. Marlowe was breathing heavily. A deep gash on the left side of his abdomen soaked his shirt with blood, barely allowing him to stay upright. Beside him, his wife trembled, her face pale, a shaky hand clutching her son's arm.
The so...
2025-05-29 20:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe first room was ready. Though not entirely...
At that moment, Cam approached Claire holding a skull-shaped glass filled with juice and said in a tragic tone, “Claire… I don’t know if I’m in the mood to do this.”
Claire narrowed her eyes and replied with the patience of so...
2025-05-29 15:57:52 +0000 UTC View PostA raven, its feathers black as the abyss, pecked frantically and insistently at the glass. This was no ordinary raven.
Wednesday crossed the room, opened the window, and let the messenger in. The bird landed on her desk, a letter tied to its leg, sealed with the Council's emblem.
Enid...
2025-05-28 18:09:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Willa?!” exclaimed Haley, surprised and excited to see her. “I can’t believe you’re here! Why didn’t you tell me?!”
“Surprise,” Willa replied with a barely tilted smile, never breaking character.
Alex came down behind her sister, without a costume, holding a noteboo...
2025-05-27 17:05:16 +0000 UTC View PostMitchell was driving in silence.
Cam rode in the passenger seat, occasionally glancing at Willa’s costume like a proud casting director.
In the back seat, Andrew and Willa sat together, only separated by Lily’s booster seat.
He had his Michael Myers mask resting on his lap; ...
2025-05-26 17:00:49 +0000 UTC View Post[General Pov]
“Wednesday! You won’t believe what Thing did today,” Enid said through laughter, bouncing into the room with cheerful steps and slightly tousled hair. The Addams family’s hand was perched on her shoulder like a lifelong pet.
“I don’t care wha...
2025-05-26 16:39:18 +0000 UTC View Post[General POV]
"Don't thank me just yet. If everything goes well, you'll owe me one," said Willa with a smile.
And just as she said that, Cam walked into the living room, carrying Lily in his arms. She had a little pumpkin scarf tied around her neck like a cape. She lo...
2025-05-25 16:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post[Willa's POV]
The sun was high in the sky, shining directly onto the bleachers at the Palisades field when I arrived. I was about thirty minutes early from the time Andrew and I had agreed on.
Not out of anxiety, or politeness. I just… had free time.
My mom wa...
2025-05-23 17:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post"Ta-da," said Mitchell, raising his arms in a sort of heroic pose.
Andrew exhaled through his nose.
He pressed his lips together and brought a hand to the bridge of his nose, as if trying to contain an emotional migraine.
As a superhero fan, someone who admired well-made cosplay...
2025-05-22 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post[Wednesday’s POV]
Journal Entry – March 25
It’s been ten days since the mission involving the deranged cultist who created the chimera by kidnapping normies and two outcasts.
The bite Enid suffered on her arm turned out to be more...
2025-05-21 16:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post7:14 a.m.
The smell of freshly brewed coffee filled the kitchen. The toaster worked at a steady pace, and the pan sizzled with unenthusiastic scrambled eggs. Everything seemed in order, except for one thing: Cameron.
Andrew noticed it instantly as he stepped ...
2025-05-20 16:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post[Pritchett-Tucker House]
Tuesday, October 31 – 2009
Cameron woke up in the middle of the night. His eyes opened slowly and with difficulty, he shifted under the sheets, and when he saw the time on the digital clock on the nightstand, he pal...
2025-05-19 18:45:57 +0000 UTC View Post[Wednesday's POV]
The trip to the town took us about forty-five minutes. Not bad, we covered 200 kilometers.
The journey was silent, not out of discomfort, but for the sake of efficiency. We reached the outskirts of the town at around 11:16 PM.
And from the very...
2025-05-19 18:02:28 +0000 UTC View Post'What the hell!? Why is she a teenager!?' Andrew thought, confused.
He recognized her perfectly. But it didn’t make any sense.
Friends was from '94. In his previous world, Monica was over 25 when the series started. And now… here she was, in 2009, as a girl his age.
In this ...
2025-05-18 17:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe elevator closed gently with a soft beep, and the group was enveloped in a brief moment of silence.
There they all were: Andrew, Reggie, Archie, Steve, Kevin, Howard with the camera in hand, Cam and Mitchell up front, and Kevin's older brother in the back, serious, but curious about ever...
2025-05-16 15:40:19 +0000 UTC View Post[Wednesday's POV]
Journal Entry - February 28
A month has passed. The war continues in silence. Its intensity has increased slightly, but there haven't been many changes.
After our conversation, Enid began to get closer to Yoko...
2025-05-16 15:15:08 +0000 UTC View PostSunday, October 8, 2009
The day of Andrew’s meetup with his subscribers had finally arrived.
Andrew left home about forty-five minutes early. Naturally, his parents were driving him. The mall was about a approximately thirty-five minutes drive away.
M...
2025-05-15 15:43:09 +0000 UTC View Post[Wednesday's POV]
Journal Entry – January 28
The days go by, slow and repetitive, at least during daylight hours.
At Nevermore, classes proceed as usual: theory and practice. Essays on ancient outcast history, group projects,...
2025-05-13 19:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe party went on. Laughter, music, groups chatting.
Howard was still unsuccessfully trying to flirt, approaching any girl that breathed. His tactics fluctuated between adorably clumsy and clinically desperate. Incredibly, he hadn’t received a single slap that night.
At one point, A...
2025-05-13 17:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe party at Liam’s house was still going strong.
The night was just right: not too chaotic, not too calm to be boring.
There were people laughing, background music playing, groups chatting in different corners, and an overall lighthearted vibe that made everyone forget, at least fo...
2025-05-12 14:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post[Wednesday’s POV]
January 12
I returned to Nevermore on Monday, feeling renewed.
After spending the entire weekend with Luke, most of my irritation and foul mood had faded.
I forgave him, even though he didn’t keep hi...
2025-05-10 16:41:04 +0000 UTC View PostLiam’s parents’ house was spacious, two stories tall, located in a quiet residential neighborhood not far from the Dunphys’ home.
But the party wasn’t inside the house.
Everything was set up in the large backyard, accessible through a side gate that led straight from the stree...
2025-05-09 17:10:35 +0000 UTC View PostManual Arts vs. Palisades – Fourth Quarter – 00:42 on the clock
The scoreboard was brutal:
Manual Arts High School 7 – Palisades 65
Most coaches, under those circumstances, would do the obvious:
Hit the brakes. Send...
2025-05-08 15:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post