E. M. Otten
Bio
E. M. Otten is a self-published author from Grand Rapids, Michigan. She writes poetry, short stories, and novels, including the well-received Shift trilogy published on Amazon. Her preferred genres are mystery, fantasy, and science fiction.
Stories (7)
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Cold
Cold—yes, absolute cold— enveloped me in a way that was not quite comfortable, but not altogether unwelcome either. Every year, it happens this way… Ferrier would arrive as the last leaves fell and, just behind him, the cold would come whistling through the trees in swirling little cyclones, flurries of snow and ice and deep darkness. The biting wind carried with it the failures and regrets of the past year, highlighting all that we’d left undone in sparkling white peaks and glassy frozen encasements. Ferrier stood outside at the first snowfall in head-to-toe black wool, his arms open wide as if summoning the winter himself, beckoning the brittle branches of trees to freeze and creak, allowing the air to chill us all to the very depths of our bones.
By E. M. Otten5 years ago in Fiction
Silence
The whistling of the teapot jolted me straight out of my skin and I trembled as I took it from the heat and poured the hot water into my cup. A stiff quiet had fallen over the house like a blanket. I dropped the teabag in and stared into the water as it steeped, the grayish-green of dried tea leaves seeping and swirling until the water turned murky. Warm, damp frills of bittersweet steam wafted into my nose, a sensation that often comforted me on nights like these.
By E. M. Otten5 years ago in Horror
The Witching Hour
A tremendous squall woke me that night, a gust of wind so strong that it pummeled the oak trees outside the house, causing the branches to scrape with incessant clamor against my bedroom window. A hazy glimpse at the clock told me that it was three o'clock in the morning, mere hours past the time I had stumbled upstairs and plunged into the pleasant comfort of sleep.
By E. M. Otten5 years ago in Horror
