The Apartment
A winter night. An iron bed begins to shake. Nothing else in the building moves—and then a light pull sways in time with it.
Step into the apartment01 / Substack · Essays & quiet horror
Quiet horror.
Fiction & essays.
A room. A familiar feeling. A detail you almost overlook. Fiction and essays that give you a reason to look again.
The writing room / Read a little further
Written stories & essays
Two stories. Two ways into the unease.
The Camp
An antiques store in a decaying Victorian house. A beautiful hat, a strangely warm dress, and a growing sense that visitors are unwelcome. Curiosity keeps climbing the stairs.
Enter the campWritten fiction and essays from KaZ’s Substack.
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Something is slightly wrong. Read on.
Two selections from the archive, refreshed every two weeks.
1 Clayborne Street
The party is loud. The house has a resident nobody invited. A small door keeps opening, and someone at the party seems to know why.
“Then, right before my eyes, the door swung open a third time. Slowly and deliberately.”Find out who is there
Brief excerpt by KaZ Akers. Read the original on Substack.
The Companion
A delivery at the door. A familiar cruelty. A cat with very little patience. Some visitors mistake a quiet home for an unprotected one.
“Nobody else wanted to come to this creepy house, Colette.”Meet the companion
Brief excerpt by KaZ Akers. Read the original on Substack.
The Apartment
A winter night. An iron bed begins to shake. Nothing else in the building moves—and then a light pull sways in time with it.
Step into the apartmentThis may explain it all.
What if a change of direction is really a return? KaZ looks back at the uncanny thread running through her childhood and performing life.
“This has been a BIG part of my life since I was really young.”Follow the thread
Brief excerpt by KaZ Akers. Read the original on Substack.
No, I’m Not Crazy...
The past can become a very convincing map. An encounter with the living world gives KaZ a reason to question where hers is taking her.
“Thinking that my past was my future”Read what changed
Brief excerpt by KaZ Akers. Read the original on Substack.
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when it arrives.
A story can end. Curiosity has other plans.
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