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Short Story / Horror

January 23, 2023

Reads: 54

Comments: 4

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: poetry, poem, existential, surreal, surrealism

Poem / Poetry

October 16, 2022

Reads: 103

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

The elusive "I" has no hiding place. Those deepest sentiments of our individuality that we can almost feel on our skin exists where? Read More

Tags: space, universe, time, dread, existential

just a poem i wrote like any other Read More

Tags: poetry, poem, existential, existentialism, identity-crisis

Short Story / Horror

February 21, 2022

Reads: 364

Shelves: 1

The The Horror House House

Tags: horror, madness, existential, metaverse, arter

we've all been low, but some of us choose to move on, and others don't. Read More

Tags: dark, horror, existential

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"Nice piece of writing, imagery takes you to the scene." Read More

Poem / Poetry

November 09, 2021

Reads: 188

Comments: 1

The Writers' Tree House House

Nothing will save us... No, you read that wrong, It clearly say that Nothing will save us. Oh, you'll see for yourself... Read More

Tags: dark, existential, dreadful, other

Poem / Poetry

October 30, 2021

Reads: 196

Comments: 3

Shelves: 3

The Writers' Tree House House

My response to nikappuhamy's 'Life' Read More

Tags: dark, existential, other

Poem / Poetry

October 16, 2021

Reads: 230

Comments: 5

Shelves: 1

The Writers' Tree House House

They say that when you stare into the Abyss, the Abyss stares back. Read More

Tags: dark, existential, dreadful, other

Fourteen years ago, Grant Smitherby escaped from a magical door that lead to a magical dreamland. Not telling anyone of things he saw, and telling his family and the authorities that he had no idea where he was during those missing three days, he pressed towards the future and never… Read More

Tags: fantasy, drama, dreams, trauma, existential

Mr Cosgrave seems such a mild mannered man but his depraved tastes offer a few surprises to a pair of hardened detectives during a candid interview. Read More

Tags: horror, crime, literary, confession, existential

Robert2046 spends a day researching media accounts of horror and violence and gains a haunting self knowledge in the process. Read More

Tags: murder, violence, media, existential, social-media

You find yourself in your own personal Hell and begin asking yourself about the nature of consciousness; religion; existentialism; and self-image. Read More

Tags: religion, philosophy, heaven, hell, existential

Poem / Non-Fiction

May 08, 2019

Reads: 9887

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Real life and real people struggle. Everybody says they’re okay, how many of us actually are? Read More

Tags: god, life, help, real, existential

Poem / Poetry

May 02, 2019

Reads: 421

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

A poem I wrote after taking an existentialism class which put my head into a tail spin. Read More

Tags: philosophy, mind, gone, existential, disappearing

Poem / Poetry

April 10, 2019

Reads: 412

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Time and Death have an eternity-long disagreement. Read More

Tags: death, poetry, poem, time, existential

Book / Other

April 10, 2019

A brief. Read More

Tags: life, short, story, humans, existential

Petit essai sur les vertus du silence, quand on est moi ou vous, et prise de conscience brutale sur la nature de l'existence. Read More

Tags: education, mystical, existential

Poem / Romance

February 25, 2019

Reads: 414

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A poem about the eternity of love Read More

Tags: love, death, life, universe, existential

Book / Other

February 01, 2019

Reads: 17249

Comments: 2

Shelves: 3

The Booksie Classic House

{Historical Fiction/ Vampire / Romance / *Bisexual Protagonist*} "Do you believe in monsters, Elek?" Elek tilted his head in confusion, knitting his eyebrows together and swallowing hard. "Uh, no, not really sir. They're just stories you tell to children to keep them in… Read More

Tags: vampire, gay, romance, existential, gay-themes

Poem / Poetry

December 27, 2018

Reads: 434

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A little something I wrote today. I need to exorcise all the pain. Read More

Tags: depression, question, loneliness, questioning, existential

Evil on the beach. Read More

Tags: fantasy, dark, horror, beach, existential

The poem is a reflection on the pointlessness of life and perhaps ultimately, the reason we still live it. Read More

Tags: death, life, existential

‘Only by living on his terms could he die a satisfactory death, for even death had to have a meaning, as much as life, for birth and death were the beginning and end of the sentence and one had to fill that sentence with meaningful words. If one did not,… Read More

Tags: love, loss, life, existential

A play - What's it all about? Birth. Life. Work. Death. Love. Hate. Tomatoes. Tea. What's it all about? That's up to you. Chris Bradbury takes another trip through the absurd and asks whether life is all worth it. Read More

Tags: loss, birth, life, play, existential

You have brought to me nothing but pain and disappointment. You cannot hold down a job. You have no friends. You hate the world for no more reason that it has the gall to exist. You are just so indifferent towards all the things that you are supposed to love… Read More

Tags: love, loss, life, existential

Short Story / Science Fiction

September 10, 2018

Reads: 577

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

The girl with the cleaver hesitated... Read More

Tags: scary, existential, female-protagonist

Well-placed and familiar characters face existential crises, realization, and enlightenment in an abstract screenplay about free will. Read More

Tags: drama, screenplay, existential

Can you fly in your dreams? Read More

Tags: fantasy, spirituality, dreams, imagination, existential

Book / Other

November 07, 2017

Reads: 978

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: life, space, universe, existence, existential

Short Story / Other

November 01, 2017

Reads: 761

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A desperate musing into the futility of life and the contradiction of infinity. Read More

Tags: thoughts, infinite, existential, existentialism, musings

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