Southern horror · Blue-collar weird

Some roads only look empty.

Myles Teston writes Southern roadside weird—stories about back roads, bad decisions, family ghosts, and the things waiting just past the headlights.

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Back roads

Places the county quit naming years ago.

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Night work

What clocks in after everyone else goes home.

03

Family ghosts

The debts, names, and hungers we inherit.

In development

The Second Shift

A man asks the thing in his house to make itself useful. It does.

A first-person possession story about exhaustion, permission, and the danger of finally getting the help you asked for.

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A weathered lighter lying in roadside grass, rendered like a distressed found photograph
Evidence recovered near the treeline.

Ditchlight Gothic

“The ditchlight never shows you the whole thing. Just enough to know it was already there.”

Horror caught in partial illumination: work gloves on the counter, gravel under the tires, and something pale standing beyond the useful edge of the beam.

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