As her groceries were scanned, Mrs. Jones looked intently at the young woman scanning them. Madison, her name tag read.
I don’t recognize her by name, but I could swear that I know this girl from somewhere,
she thought. While primarily focusing on doing her job, the nineteen year-old checkout girl could sense a familiarity with this woman as well, but couldn’t place it either. Being a bit shy, she was reluctant to bring it up.

Laura still couldn’t believe that it was real. She stepped out to the balcony of the private beach house where she was spending her honeymoon. She had awakened before her husband and went outside to get some sun in a black one-piece bathing suit with a book in one hand and a bottle of suntan lotion in the other. She stretched out comfortably on the chair and rubbed the lotion on her neck, shoulders, arms and legs before returning to her favorite pastime, immersing herself in a book.

“How much farther is it?” Sabrina asked as she lagged her best friend, Shelby, following her on a hike into the woods. Shelby had been excited to show her an unusual rock formation that she had seen the last time she went hiking in these woods. Sabrina didn’t share her friend’s enthusiasm for the outdoors, but humored her friend anyway. They had been friends for nearly all of their twenty-eight years, so she was used to putting up with things like this for Shelby occasion

Karissa stood in front of her bathroom mirror brushing her shoulder-length wavy light brown hair. The forty-four year-old was excited to finally meet Todd, the man she had been chatting with online and on the phone for the last couple weeks. She set her hairbrush down and started touching up her makeup when she heard the doorbell ring.


“Chloe, can you answer the door?” she called out to her twenty year-old daughter who was watching a show on Net

“I know it’s a business trip, but we don’t fly back until Monday, so be sure to have a good time this weekend,” forty-five year-old entrepreneur Gwen said to the younger women standing on both sides of her as they waited with bags in hand for a driver to pick them up from the airport.


“Sure thing, boss!” Ariel, her twenty-two year-old secretary said with a smile.


“Absolutely! I

The day the four women had been waiting had finally arrived. This weekend was the planned getaway that they had all been anticipating for weeks. At the house of Lynn, the older of one of the two pairs of sisters who made up the group, her best friend Stephanie had arrived and they were chatting and discussing their plans for a great long holiday weekend. Soon, Stephanie’s younger sister Tina arrived, and then they all waited impatiently for Lynn’s younger sister Valerie, who was runn

Todd sat alone at the end of the bar, drinking slowly from a bottle of beer while occasionally glancing around and taking a look at the other patrons. Every time he glanced in the direction of one particular woman, she seemed to quickly avert her eyes. She appeared to be in her mid-to-late twenties, had shoulder-length blond hair and, from the quick looks he got at them, he guessed blue eyes. He knew that he had seen her in a couple other places recently, but even beyond that, he felt like he re

After a couple hours of searching in the darkness, the small goblin scout party finally spotted a feast that seemed to make all the effort worth it. “Over here,” the leader of the group called out in a quiet voice to the others as he slid into some bushes to hide. “Look there!” he continued pointing in front of them.


The others looked and spotted a group of three young women sitting in folding chairs around a campfire roasting some ma

A few weeks passed, and Dennis decided to go hunting for another meal. To his great disappointment, the summer had ended before he could return to the water park and do his grocery shopping there. So he chose what he thought would be the next best thing. He drove to a nearby park on the edge of the woods, making sure to park in the most deserted area that he could, and made his way onto a running trail that went through a wooded area out of the view of almost everyone who was in the park. He res

A few days passed while Dennis relaxed and took the opportunity to fully digest his double feast of Dakota and Bailey. He was starting to feel a little hungry and decided to see if he could lure Annie to join him for a special dinner this evening. He picked up Bailey’s phone and began searching through her messages, first with Dakota, and then with Annie to try to figure out how to convincingly impersonate her in a text conversation. Once he felt that he had it down enough, he decided to r

Dennis woke up around noon, and by then he could feel a little bit of hunger returning. Dakota had been tasty, but she was short and skinny, so he had just about entirely digested her already. Luckily for him, he already had dinner figured out for this evening. He just had to come up with a plan to make it happen. He looked at Dakota’s phone and noticed that he, or more precisely, Dakota had already received a couple texts from Bailey this morning, checking to see if Dakota was feeling bet

Dennis sat at the table, all alone in the restaurant, checking his phone for any hint of when or if his date, Ashley, might be showing up. He’d been sitting there for a couple hours, so he was pretty sure he’d been stood up. He was disappointed. Not because he cared for her, but he had plans to have her for a special second dinner later. He saw the waitress, a pretty and petite blonde in her mid-twenties, Dakota, approaching and decided to give up hope and when she reached the table,

Mrs. Jones sat at her kitchen table, finishing up her morning coffee, watching the news. After a story about a group of women who had recently gone missing, it was time for her favorite part of the morning newscast, the weather. Recently Channel 8 had hired a pretty young woman named Kayla as their new morning weather girl. As she had most mornings recently, Mrs. Jones licked her lips as she imagined the beautiful brunette lying in a pan all roasted up on her dinner table.

Julie sat at her dining room table, discussing plans for what to do for Halloween decorations with her new roommate of a few weeks, Samantha. “Why not get one of those twelve-foot tall skeletons?” Samantha asked.


“Nah, everyone is going to get one of those,” Julie replied. She paused in deep thought for several seconds. “I’ve got it!” she exclaimed with a smile, brushing away a lock of her long dark brown hair that h

Tasha was having an enjoyable Halloween night handing out candy to the neighborhood children that had come by. She enjoyed seeing the costumes of all of them, but these seemed so realistic that they almost frightened her when she opened the door and saw them.


“Trick or treat!”” the group of children exclaimed as she greeted them. Tasha jumped back before answering, noticing a bunch of children about waist-high to her dressed up in very rea

As the four young women made the walk of nearly a mile from the closest spot, the secluded beach area they were promised would be there by the lake finally came into view. “Where did you hear about this place?” Tiffany, the youngest of the group, asked.


“From an old co-worker,” the blonde walking in front of her answered. “She mentioned that she was planning to go here right before she left the job and moved away.” Daniel

Krysten was overcome with sadness as she walked out of her sister’s house carrying the last box of belongings and turned around to lock the door for the final time. It had been nearly a year since her sister Andrea had disappeared without a trace and now the house was about to go into foreclosure.


As she walked to her car, she got a weird vibe as she saw him. A middle-aged man, his name was Todd, getting out of his car. Andrea had mentioned her new ne

“All right, we’re here,” the driver of the party bus said as he brought the bus to a stop, turning around to face the four women partying in the back.


“It’s about time!” exclaimed Alicia, a thirty-four year old brunette in a black dress, as she gave the girl next to her a big hug around the neck, spilling a couple drops from her drink onto the floor. “This is going to be amazing, Britt!”

It had been such a long drive, Nicole couldn’t wait to get to her best friend’s new house. She had been driving for hours and was starting to get tired as the sky turned dark, but the thought of a fun weekend in a new place kept her excitement level high enough to keep going. She was starting to suspect that she made a wrong turn a few blocks back. She looked down to check her phone for just a moment and suddenly slammed into a car parked on the street.

Gundar had been searching for weeks now, and finding Kristy wasn’t easy. He was big and strong, but preferred to avoid unwanted attention since his size and strength didn't make him bulletproof. So he had to remain as sneaky as possible while going so far into town, but he finally had her in reach. Not that his searches were completely fruitless. One recent outing resulted in catching a thirty-something woman and her teenage daughter for a feast that he had especially enjoyed. However, now

“Stop the car now!” Heather yelled at her boyfriend, Matt. They were on their way out of town to his office party when he received a very flirtatious pic and message on his phone from a female co-worker that she happened to see before he could pick the phone up from the hands-free holder and hide it from her. They had been arguing ever since. “I’ve had it with your shit and I want out, NOW!”


After checking to make sure there wa

The wolfman watched from the edge of the woods filled with hunger. Just roughly one hundred meters away, there was a group of seven young women participating in an outdoor yoga class on a warm summer afternoon in the park. Now he was struggling with his decision on which of them to snatch up and carry off to have for dinner. They all looked delicious, but after nearly half an hour of careful observation, one had in particular caught his attention.


She was a

“You really think that I should meet him?” Holly asked her new friend, Julie, as she smiled and flipped her shoulder-length hair in the way she frequently did when she was anxious.


“Absolutely,” Julie responded as she brushed a strand of her long black hair off her face. “He’s a great guy and I think you two would really hit it off. I’ve known him quite a while, so I’ll help you get ready if it’ll help y

Watching the crowds go by, Mrs. Jones sat at her kiosk in the middle of the mall. She had set up shop recently, spending a couple days a week promoting her new spa in a quiet area in the woods outside of town. If any young women caught her eye, she would try to recruit them for a special day at her spa. If a group interested her enough, she might make them an offer that they would find difficult to refuse. She had just spotted one such group approaching and called them over as they approached.

Andrea woke up in a bit of a haze and confused about her surroundings. She looked around and found herself nude, on her back, covered head-to-toe in what seemed to be some sort of honey glaze. She was restrained to the biggest pan she had ever seen while baking inside the biggest oven she had ever seen. Then she remembered.




"Good job, Andrea. You really know how to pick them well," she muttered to herself as the wh

“It really is something, Mel,” Derek said to his younger sister Melanie as he stared at the mini statue she had given him for his thirtieth birthday. It was a golden sculpture, about a foot and a half tall of some bizarre monstrous creature that he had never seen, It had a head like a bear, with a mouth full of sharp teeth that resembled a shark’s, with a thick torso, long skinny arms with sharp claws and legs that resembled a chicken’s. He finally took his eyes off it an

The guests were finally starting to arrive. Kaitlin had been looking forward to her 19th birthday party ever since her parents finally agreed to it. They'd be out of town for the night and had two conditions, no boys and no booze.


Kaitlin had no problem with those rules and was expecting around a dozen girls. She planned on hanging out in the pool until it was time for dinner.


The first to arrive was Misty, a tall redhe

The wolf had spent the better part of the afternoon gathering supplies for the wonderful dinner he was expecting that evening. After he had finished eating Sarah, her phone received that text from a beautiful brunette named Cassie, letting the wolf know exactly when and where he could find her. He had brought lots of spices, butter, and fruits and vegetables to the house that belonged to the parents of his lunch that afternoon.


It was about 8 PM, and the su

It seemed like a relatively normal evening for Ellie as she got ready for bed. After slipping on a blue thigh-length nightgown, she put her glasses back on and picked up her Nintendo Switch before she lay down in bed. “I really want to finish this shrine before I go to sleep,” she mumbled to herself as the stone ball she needed to complete the next puzzle fell into a bottomless pit.


She stuck with it before eventually completing the shrine. As t

“I could really get used to living like this,” Sarah thought to herself as she looked out through her sunglasses into the backyard of her parents’ new home on the edge of the forest. The twenty-six year-old was there to house sit while her parents were out of town and decided right then that she’d be spending a lot more time there, in the summer at least, than she did at her own apartment. She walked to edge of the pool, removed her sunglasses, fighting to free them as on

Cindy watched from the sidewalk while her daughter Madi approached the next house to trick or treat. She knocked on the door and a seemingly sweet old lady answered.


“Trick or treat!” the little girl called out excitedly.


“My, aren’t you an adorable little cheerleader? Here’s some candy for you,” the sweet old lady told her as she put some chocolate in her sack. As Madi started to wa

The overnight shift at Surfin’ Burger always felt like an interminable slog. That night was no different for Shauna. The nineteen-year-old college freshman was working overnight as usual, along with her assistant manager Jeff. She usually spent a good deal of the time doing her homework for class and tonight was no different. It was a little uncomfortable for her working alone with Jeff though. He clearly had a thing for her, but she just wasn’t feeling it. He was sitting on the coun

“Trick or treat!”, the five little children dressed in goblin costumes yelled out in unison as the young man opened the door. He responded by giving them each some candy and turned around to go inside, closing the door behind them. He thought to himself that those are the most realistic kids’ costumes he’s ever seen, and wondered what kind of parent would allow kids that seemed to be about six or seven at most to wear something that scary.