Scary Headlines Novels & Stories

A new headline appeared on many news sites: “Billionaire David Jones Returns After Kidnap. Pregnant Wife Rushed to Hospital.” The headline spread everywhere. People began to talk. “Did you hear? Mr. Jones was kidnapped!” “And his pregnant wife collapsed at the scene!” “This family never has peace!” The news moved fast. Very fast. --- In her small apartment, Sofia sat on the couch, scrolling through her phone. She was smiling at a funny video when suddenly, a shocking headline appeared on her screen. Her smile disappeared. Her eyes widened. “What?!” she gasped. She quickly opened the article and read the news again.

He was trembling and on the verge of getting panic attack. Stopping the black Porsche just an inch away from him the driver gets out of the vehicle as if in a trance. "Come back to Tehran." He snarled on the face of Victor, his face purely white with an ugly black scar right on the middle of his forehead. He went to the switch board fixed to one of the pillars in the parking lot and put his finger into the socket. His body shook with passing electricity surprising Victor and he died on the spot.

A fierce grin stole over my mouth as I read through the first handful of old newspaper headlines. "Damn," Tag breathed as he leaned down over my left shoulder. "Are those what I think they are?" I nodded. "Yeah." "What are you seeing that I'm not?" Thane asked as he took up residence over my right shoulder. "These, my dear brother, are headlines of not only missing persons, but suspicious deaths and other grisly ends that are all tangentially connected to the Kavanaughs, Cananachs, and Walsh families," I answered. "But there looks to be close to a hundred different headlines," Thane said, his voice soft.

Unnamed JHS Quartet Staged Everything for Fame. “Whoa, that’s terrible!” Cara remarked beside me. “Things took a hundred eighty-degree turn with these false headlines,” added the Science geek. “So, the EIC’s possibly…?” the Major gave me the look and I nodded in response. He then heaved a deep, disappointed sigh.

Thalia admitted softly, her shoulders slumping with exhaustion. Isabella let out a humorless laugh before rotating her phone toward Thalia. "Trust me," Isabella muttered, shaking her head. "You really don't." Thalia reluctantly accepted the phone. The first headline flashed across the screen. THE BILLION-DOLLAR BRIDE. Another appeared immediately beneath it. IS THIS THE MOST POWERFUL WEDDING OF THE DECADE? Her expression remained unchanged. She had expected headlines like those. Then... Her eyes landed on another article.

By the next morning, the world had already decided who I was. I didn’t need to open my phone to know that. I could feel it in the way the air inside the house had shifted—tenser, heavier, like even the walls were bracing for impact. Still, I opened it anyway, because avoiding it wouldn’t change anything. The headlines came in waves. GRANT HEIR SCANDAL EXPLODES KIDNAPPING, CORPORATE FRAUD, AND A SECRET CHILD

But just then, a loud notification beep echoed from both our phones, stopping me cold. I picked up my phone and began to scroll, and my breath stopped the moment my gaze landed on the bold headline flashing across the screen. "Billionaire mogul Mr. Hawthorne spotted in bed with a mystery woman after allegedly hiding her from his longtime girlfriend." The headline slammed into me like a punch. My fingers trembled as I scrolled further… and my stomach dropped the moment my eyes fell on something far even worse. My eyes widened. It can't be.

What was so shocking about this? I scrolled down to see the headline and my blood turned cold.

The worst of it all was that it was in different headlines across newspapers: The Most Violent Mad Man In Rio Hondo Comes In The Disguise Of A Successor Brian The Most Violent Mad Man Ends Summit With Bite! The Moment The Billionaire Mad Son Bit Another Billionaire! We couldn’t take our eyes off the news when we returned home. Different journalists gave it different strokes, and we became talk of the town. Other pictures of Brian and me kissing at the summit dominated newspapers and social media. I was not only embarrassed, but the caption they gave it saddened me: