It’s darkly January
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll have noticed a strong theme in the past few days stories. As in, they’re depressing as a kitten in a house fire.
January in the northern hemisphere is bad enough without dark stories to read late at night. Or so I used to think. Then I heard a lecturer who insisted if you’re sad you should listen to sad music. Or read a sad story. It’s supposed to be cathartic.
In that case, here’s a cavalcade of the darkest stories I’ve ever read on Six Minute Story, written in the last 72 hours. And two from the archives.