Story 1:The Names We Painted Over



short description: When Ethan Blackwell moves into his late father's renovated house, the fresh plaster on the walls can't quite bury what came before. At night, faint voices seep through the new paint, whispering names — names of people who vanished years ago. Then one voice becomes unmistakable: his father's. As Ethan digs into the house's past with the help of Mara Whitlock, a local archivist obsessed with the missing, and Daniel Cross, the contractor who oversaw the renovation and knows more than he's saying, he realizes the walls didn't just absorb sound. They absorbed something that never left.



Story 2:The Warning I Haven't Sent Yet



short description: Ethan Blackwell wakes up to a text message sent from his own phone — timestamped twenty-four hours in the future. The message contains six words: "Don't let Mara in." He doesn't know anyone named Mara. Not yet. Over the next day, as the hours tick toward the moment his future self warned him about, Ethan starts noticing a woman who seems to know him, a best friend named Daniel Cross who insists she's harmless, and a growing certainty that the message wasn't a warning about a person at all — it was a warning about what happens after she's already inside. As the clock runs out, Ethan has to decide whether to trust a message from a version of himself he hasn't become yet, or the woman standing at his door right now.



Story 3: The Floor That Never Ends - The Hotel Room Where the Light Never Landed



short description:Inside a decaying, half-forgotten hotel lies a room that guests are warned never to enter — a room where the floor seems to swallow whatever falls into it. When investigator Mara Whitlock drops a flashlight into the dark and hears it strike something, minutes later, far below where any floor should exist, she and her companions Ethan Blackwell and Daniel Cross are pulled into a mystery that defies the laws of space, time, and survival itself.



Connor Hayes CH writes atmospheric horror and paranormal thrillers that explore what happens when the past refuses to stay buried. Drawing on a fascination with old houses, forgotten histories, and the quiet dread of everyday spaces, Connor crafts stories where grief and the supernatural intertwine. When not writing, Connor can be found researching architectural oddities and true accounts of unexplained phenomena.