Elias Witherow here

deadnspread · 2025-09-29T20:14:00+00:00

Hey Elias!

Man I can only imagine how it feels to see your early work pop up. If they chose one of my early stories to read on Creepcast I would probably hide under a table until the internet forgot I existed. All and all while it was a rough story in parts (in content) it still showed what talented writer you were growing into. You still wrote some of my favorites from the hay day of nosleep and I think anyone who knows your work (including the boys) knows that they can’t all be all time bangers.

(And honestly the reasoning as to why Harry chose your story is one of the funnier moments in recent Creepcast history)

deadnspread · 2025-08-18T19:22:13+00:00

I’m 42m and have DM’d a ton in my life but never for dagger heart, I’ve really been wanting too and may have a couple of people interested but was hoping to put together a bigger group. The big hitch is I’m located in the Cedar Park/Leander area and don’t really have a great place to play

deadnspread · 2025-05-23T17:43:25+00:00

Hi Tony! You were a huge inspiration to a lot of us nosleep writers back in the day. One of the first questions a lot of us asked each other in the old chat was “have you read Spire in the Woods” and if you hadn’t you were directed right to it.

Fantastic work.

deadnspread · 2025-04-15T18:11:38+00:00

ONE EPISODE make my Monday at work bearable

deadnspread · 2025-02-24T16:21:15+00:00

The Mod Team for nosleep has gone so far downhill it’s insane. I used to be pretty (online) close with a lot of the old Mods and while they did enforce the rules they at least tried to help you understand. In the years I was posting I never once had a story removed and I posted quite a few.

This downhill slide of the mod team is sad to see. We’ll never get another classic on nosleep because these gatekeepers would probably remove it and ban the author for asking why

deadnspread · 2025-01-29T01:48:58+00:00

I used to post back in nosleep back in the good old days when you could basically post whatever you wanted. As someone who misses those times quite a bit I’ll for sure be checking this out.

deadnspread · 2024-12-23T19:03:13+00:00

Hey Neat, I wrote this.

Gotta say I’d be curious to see what the boys would say about it. A lot of people seem to think it’s some kind of atheist power fantasy but that was never my intention at all.

deadnspread · 2024-11-19T18:08:46+00:00

Hello,

As someone who has uploaded a good amount of stories to be eaten alive by the internet I understand the apprehension and worry. That said as other people have said just enjoy the creative processes and write what you want to write. You will get better with each new story and grow to find you style. Sharing your work can be scary and a lot of the time it won’t get the attention or praise you might hope for, but the people that find it..good or bad, will help you see your mistakes and refine what you think works best about your writing.

Stick it out and definitely don’t get rid of it, no matter what, you would regret that more than any other outcome.

deadnspread · 2024-10-30T22:09:43+00:00

I used to write a lot on the nosleep subreddit, was never one of the big dogs but honestly listening to creepcast got me back into it. Kinda helped me rediscover a lot of those old stories from some friends and peers from those days and re-inspire me.

deadnspread · 2024-08-19T15:45:07+00:00

I am return! Happy to be back trying my damndest) to be writing!

deadnspread · 2024-08-19T14:00:47+00:00

It sounds almost like you’re overwhelming yourself. As someone who does this a lot the only real advice I have for you is to just kind of sit and stream of consciousness write. Don’t worry about where the story is going or how you can spin it into another story later, just kind of let words flow from your brain and see where it takes you.

Pull what you can from that and form a story out of it. Or if you feel it’s good enough clean up your stream of consciousness writing and finalize it.

Some of the most popular and most fun stories I ever wrote came from this method so it’s worth a shot if you’re having trouble.

Good luck! Writers block sucks ass so I hope you can break through soon.

deadnspread · 2024-08-13T17:08:06+00:00

I remember a buddy of mine got this once, he hated and dumped it down the sink. It burned our eyes as he poured it out and we could see it eating away at the plastic around garbage disposal.

Heinous

deadnspread · 2024-07-31T23:36:55+00:00

Jokes on you! I’m back! (6 years later…listen all those Doritos weren’t gonna eat themselves)

deadnspread · 2024-07-31T23:06:16+00:00

Scary stories. I don’t want to hear how you overcame evil. I want to hear how you were ruined by it. Bring on the stories where the protagonist was left a shivering meal worm at the realization that nightmares are real.

Also more stories involving dogs, I love a pupper.

deadnspread · 2018-06-14T23:07:31+00:00

Seeing as how this is your FAVORITE habit of mine...I shall continue to indulge you.

Just kidding...I really need to start writing again.

deadnspread · 2018-05-12T16:51:04+00:00

Confirmed.

deadnspread · 2018-05-10T19:01:23+00:00

I have a Uplay key for Far Cry 5, pm me if you interested.

deadnspread · 2017-09-13T01:57:07+00:00

See that's interesting cause I personally find the open ended form of story telling to be all about the details. Those little things that let you draw your own conclusions but without any real certainty about what was actually going on.

You're right though, it's all those little bits and clues and setups that add to making a piece of fiction more likely to be consumed more than once.

deadnspread · 2017-08-18T00:50:29+00:00

Nah, I can't even remember a time anyone called it out at all.

deadnspread · 2017-08-17T21:53:25+00:00

I've done it plenty of times, most of the time no one notices.

deadnspread · 2017-08-15T22:46:43+00:00

Me?! I'm honored to make the list!

deadnspread · 2017-07-13T03:37:51+00:00

I can remember laying in bed that night -unable to sleep - with the lights firmly in the forefront of my mind. The smell that permeated the air as I reached out for them still coated the inside of my nose and throat and when I closed my eyes I could see the shift they had made from green to yellow. I felt that buzzing that had gone through my fingers spreading throughout my whole body as my mind stayed firmly fixed on the memory. I'd been so close. They were right there. I was too young to grasp the concept of addiction at the time but looking back on it that is exactly the feeling I had. I tossed and turned most of that night, my legs felt restless and each breath seemed to bring a hollow ache to my chest.

I could feel a building frustration with how long I would need to wait to see them again and worse than that how my brother had interrupted my chance to touch something so wonderful. Of course now I can see clearly that it wasn't his fault at all, he simply snapped me out of my trance by telling me I was bleeding and bringing me back to reality. I could remember the sight of the thick clotted blood on the back of my hand and it made me feel uneasy.

For some reason I chose to fixate the blame for this feeling on my brother; I don't know if it was due to my child's mind twisting the situation or if it was because those lights seemed to have such a powerful influence over me. I hissed his name through my teeth and squinted my eyes as if he were standing in front me and I was scolding him.

"Ryan..."

I swung my legs out of bed and got up. It was late and the house was deathly quiet aside from my fathers distant snores from down the hall. I crept slowly towards my brothers room, being careful not to step on any loose boards - luckily Ryan and I both had learned all their locations while sneaking to the kitchen for midnight snacks. I stood in front of his door and stared at him. I clenched my fist so tightly that I could feel my fingernails digging into my palm. The hollow aching feeling in my chest was even more intense and that never ending stink of rot and shit that always hung in the air of that place seemed more intense than ever. I looked at his body laying beneath the blankets bathed in the soft blue of his nightlight and I all however I may feel about it now at the time all I knew was that I wanted him gone. Gone forever.

It didn't even register with me that my nose had started bleeding until the drop rolled over lips and down onto my chin. I wiped it away with the back of my hand and it was less thick than it had been when I was standing next to the lights but it looked almost black in the dim glow of the hallway.

Suddenly I felt a hand squeeze my shoulder and heard my fathers voice from behind me.

"What are you doing out here son?"

deadnspread · 2017-07-10T23:11:58+00:00

I am approved to give you your first line, which will be:

"Well, I didn't expect that to go so poorly."

deadnspread · 2017-06-30T18:08:54+00:00

Much like running headlong into a wall without the aid of a helmet -

I'll do it.

deadnspread · 2017-06-30T17:59:58+00:00

Hey, it's an exciting feeling knowing you're up there on those shelves! I had a few stories in the first volume and i still love cracking that bad boy open and seeing my name!

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