FICTION

Tresari Castle

A horror short story

Evan Purcell
14 min readApr 9, 2024

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A spooky castle on a foggy day.
Photo by Okamatsu Fujikawa on Unsplash

Bill Kelley felt the ring in his pocket. Still there.

He bought the stupid thing twenty-seven hours ago. 3,000 miles ago. Seven time zones ago. Now he just wanted to chuck it into the Carpathian Mountains. He didn’t want to propose. He wasn’t ready. Besides, Judy wouldn’t like it anyway. She wouldn’t like anything she didn’t pick out…

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Evan Purcell

Evan Purcell is a writer and English teacher who has worked all over the world (most recently in Kazakhstan). He's working on his first feature film.