The Confession Engine
You can listen to everyone else’s secrets. But the machine only works if you give it one of your own. Step closer. Put the headphones on. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #Confession #Liminal

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The Confession Engine – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks

A machine that lets you hear everyone else’s secrets demands one thing in return—your own.

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I Dragged Your Arse Along, Because You Belong - A family dinner becomes a promise that refuses release. Read the nightmare. Share it if you dare. Do it now. #MatthewTonks #ShortHorror #TwistedRoads #Creepypasta #IndieAuthor #HorrorFiction #FlashFiction #PsychologicalHorror #BodyHorror #LiminalHorror

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I Dragged Your Arse Along, Because You Belong – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks

At a family Christmas, a man realises his apologies became a chain that will not loosen—past confessions bind him to a fate he cannot escape.

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A Hole Not Even for One – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks

At dawn a man sits in his truck with soil on his hands and a memory that refuses to stay buried as a voice and the bushland keep tally of what he has done.

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I Saw the Image of Your Reflection – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

A shattered reflection multiplies the self into wrong versions that call for completeness—each mirrored mistake pulls the speaker toward a last, hollow answer until the original voice is lost.

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Send What You Can’t and I’ll Show You His Name – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks

A televangelist’s promise of salvation curdles into a public rite of blood and worship when a stranger exposes the lie. Devotion mutates into violence and the congregation pays for their faith in a…

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A Lesson Never Learnt – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks

A tormented revenant watches a sleeping woman and bargains with the reflection he has become while hunger claws at memory and mercy fades.

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I Was Not the Reflection I Saw — A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

A mirror multiplies a fractured self until image and flesh trade places—recognition becomes a transaction, and the thing that answers wants to be more than a copy.

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Wetness from the Printed Foot — A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

A forgiveness printed into the room keeps dampening memory until the speaker becomes an image on the wall—voices recorded in ink and skin refuse to stay quiet and the holder of the promise begins t…

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Transcendental Indentations — A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

A braided ritual of words and salt drifts on the tide of a fractured mind—shared sins stitch a mirror that yields a stranger and leaves the speaker watching from inside the glass.

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Awake Too Long – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks

A man wakes among ruined machines and winged beasts to a savage reckoning—sleep is stolen and mercy is measured in blood as the living deliver a verdict that will not be forgotten.

Twisted Roads - Twisted Horror Stories by Matthew Tonks