Out by Inches

Brush-Ins with Things That Shouldn’t Exist

You didn’t see it clearly, but it saw you.
You weren’t hurt, but you were marked.
You barely made it out, but not all of you did.

In this bone-chilling anthology of first-person accounts, survivors recount the moments they came face-to-face with things the world doesn’t believe in, close calls with creatures, anomalies, and impossible presences that seemed to reach out from the edge of reality… and nearly pulled them through.

From the hiker who found something breathing beneath the rockslide, to the nightshift nurse who swears the elevator skipped a floor that doesn’t exist, these true-seeming tales of almost-encounters will have you questioning every noise, shadow, and memory you thought you understood.

Because sometimes, what haunts us isn’t what happened.
It’s how close it came.