This small town crime story was never in any newspaper. It’s about a diner on a bus route in western Nebraska, three passengers who got off for pie and never got back on, and the man our town blamed for it. My mother waitressed at that diner for eleven years. She told me the rest … Read more
This night shift hotel horror story starts with a wake-up call for a room nobody could be in. Room 214 was out of order and locked in the system, and every night at 3:10 a.m., something in that room still picked up the phone. I worked the night audit at a highway hotel for almost … Read more
This fake detour horror story starts on an empty Nebraska highway at midnight, with orange signs that looked exactly like every detour I’d ever followed. A deputy later told me there was no roadwork anywhere on that road, and then he showed me how they picked my car. The detour signs looked exactly like every … Read more
I never once suspected someone living in my attic, because the house binder told me there was nothing up there. The note was friendly, neat and helpful, and it was written by the one person who needed me to believe it. When you take a six-month job in a city where you don’t know a … Read more