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25 word Summer Horror Contest

25 word Summer Horror Contest

Welcome to our 25 word Summer Horror Contest. We hope that by the fall we will be able to do another Halloween Horror contest, and we hope to be able to pull off our print issue this summer, honoring all our winners with publication in that issue. Fingers crossed.

You all know how much we love horror. Our short story horror contest are intended for fun. We all need a little horror in our lives, and this is how I’m getting my fix this summer.

Until that time we are still trying to have some summer fun. To that End, this is our 25 Word Summer Horror Contest. The rules are super easy:

  • 25 Words or less
  • Post in the comments
  • Deadline is July 27, 2018
  • Enter as many times as you like.
  • Must be scary, clever, awesome….best story wins

We are offering a cash prize for this contest of $200. It’s a small prize for a small story. We will announce the winner on August 1, 2018. Details about the movie night and announcement are to come.

Please leave your stories below, DO NOT EMAIL THEM. Good luck, leave your stories below.

We are extending our contest deadline until August 10th. We will announce the winner on August 11th!

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  1. Richard EdwardsEvery Writer says

    August 14, 2018 at 4:20 pm

    I’m sorry I’m late, it took a few days to contact the winner, the winner is Zombie from Amy Buchanan. We have already transferred the funds. Congrats. In the next couple days we will be posting 3 new contests for Halloween! Could be 4….depending on if we do a poetry contest. Look for more prizes and fun.

    Reply
  2. Jon Cowling says

    August 10, 2018 at 10:40 am

    Everything’s hectic but dinner’s ready. My baby book upon the table.

    “I was complete,” Mother wrote.

    My appetite vanished, and with so much body left.

    Reply
  3. Brianna Appling says

    August 8, 2018 at 2:30 pm

    I woke up and looked around my room. I saw a ghastly creature staring back at me in the mirror, then, I realized it’s me.

    Reply
  4. Brianna Appling says

    August 8, 2018 at 2:25 pm

    I could feel someone watching me as I left the basement. I turned around to reassure myself and saw a person peering around the corner.

    Reply
  5. Steve Lucas says

    August 8, 2018 at 1:19 am

    ‘They made me do it!’ cried my daughter, dripping blood.
    ‘Who did?’
    The cellar door creaked open.
    She pointed inside with the trembling knife.
    ‘THEM!’

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  6. Luke Garza says

    July 30, 2018 at 10:01 pm

    In the pitch black of my bedroom, I awoke, rubbing sleep from my eyes. Something descended from the ceiling. A face, green, ghastly, grinning.

    Reply
  7. Luke Garza says

    July 30, 2018 at 10:01 pm

    I strolled the hallway, naked. Some giggled, others laughed. I pinched myself, as always, to prove I was dreaming. This time, I felt the pinch.

    Reply
  8. Brianna Appling says

    July 26, 2018 at 8:26 am

    The first wrench to my heart was seeing my family laying mutilated before me. The second was seeing the dark figure hiding in the corner.

    Reply
  9. Steve Lucas says

    July 20, 2018 at 9:06 am

    After nine days of agony, the tropical worm burrowed out through my ear.
    I wept with relief.
    ‘I’m afraid…,’ the doctor stammered, ‘…she’s laid eggs.’

    Reply
  10. Luke Garza says

    July 19, 2018 at 8:18 am

    As I sank my teeth into the lycanthrope’s neck, he held up a syringe. “Silver nitrate,” he said. “Just injected myself. Now we’re both dead.”

    Reply
  11. Luke Garza says

    July 19, 2018 at 8:13 am

    When aliens found the remains of the last two humans, they made a startling discovery: the humans had died by strangling each other.

    Reply
  12. Andrew Salamoun says

    July 17, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    The ticking was coming from inside of him. He clawed red furrows in his chest, but suddenly the ticking stopped.
    It wasn’t inside him anymore.

    Reply
  13. Yoshino Yamauchi says

    July 15, 2018 at 9:33 pm

    The End is near…

    The End.

    Reply
  14. Cynthia Castillo says

    July 15, 2018 at 8:39 am

    “The doors are all locked!” Sheila’s whisper desperate.
    One finally opens. Fear erases her relief.
    Heads turn in unison. She sees they all have knives.

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  15. Luke Garza says

    July 14, 2018 at 7:00 pm

    My antennae bristled. I scurried for cover as the huge foot stomped on my friends, mashing them to bits. “Cockroaches!” the giant screamed. “Goddamn cockroaches!”

    Reply
  16. Luke Garza says

    July 14, 2018 at 5:09 pm

    As I sat on the public restroom toilet, doing my business, a face appeared…not above the stall door, but below. The face grinned at me.

    Reply
  17. Luke Garza says

    July 14, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    She kissed my neck. I turned to face her. Her eye sockets were empty, her skin rotting. My wife, dead and buried seven years ago.

    Reply
  18. Luke Garza says

    July 14, 2018 at 4:22 pm

    A robed figure stood in my headlight beams. It had no face, but shrieked at me somehow. I slammed the car into reverse.

    Reply
  19. علی ابراهیمی says

    July 1, 2018 at 1:18 pm

    Your heart rate rises
    The knife was in his hand. His eyes were puffy
    He cut his throat
      Blood erupted
      I woke up suddenly

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  20. علی ابراهیمی says

    June 30, 2018 at 1:47 pm

    A killer has taken refuge in the Hammer neighborhood
    Night began with fear
    In the morning, a few corpses were found, in which a runaway assassin was present

    Reply
  21. Nate Ealy says

    June 23, 2018 at 2:17 pm

    Jane loved date night swimming at the lake. When Liam pinched her butt, Jane turned around, but there was only bubbly, red water behind her.

    Reply
  22. Brianna Appling says

    June 19, 2018 at 1:42 pm

    My old pull string doll started talking to me yesterday. Mom says that doll burnt to a crisp in a house fire 20 years ago.

    Reply
  23. Brianna Appling says

    June 19, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    An intense burning pain radiated across my face. I peered down at a shattered piece of glass and screamed. My face had been skinned off.

    Reply
  24. Miriam says

    June 19, 2018 at 10:40 am

    Alone, I see it step out of the forest. It stops. It grins. It walks towards me.

    “If anyone comes out of those woods, run.”

    Reply
  25. Allen Alright says

    June 18, 2018 at 2:04 pm

    Excitedly, prying corroded nails from the casket lid sent shivers through my spine. Freed! I lung from my coffin to feast on your blood, tonight.

    Reply
  26. Amy Stripling says

    June 8, 2018 at 7:49 pm

    Drained of my blood one drop at a time. 
    Fear grips my heart as I hear the telltale nightly drone of my tormentor.

    Reply
  27. Amy Buchanan says

    June 6, 2018 at 4:04 pm

    The man awoke after being dead for a long time. His new eyes saw the crying child in his arms as a delicious treat.

    Reply
  28. Robert Stout says

    June 5, 2018 at 7:33 pm

    The young, harried mother never noticed the twin pinpricks on her baby’s neck until she fed him. By then, it was much, much too late.

    Reply
  29. Andrew Salamoun says

    June 4, 2018 at 6:01 am

    John had had two arms. I couldn’t count them all now.

    Too many arms and too many mouths.

    “I love you, John!”

    My cries were swallowed.

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  30. Elizabeth Montague says

    June 2, 2018 at 1:06 pm

    “Hello friend.”
    “Who are you talking to sweetie?”
    “My friend in the wardrobe.”
    Every day she hears the same until one morning…
    “Goodbye Mummy.”

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  31. Candice Davies says

    June 2, 2018 at 1:55 am

    I awoke with a start but my eyelashes brushed material and all was black. I could not move, the weight bearing down on me, groaning.

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  32. Teresa says

    June 1, 2018 at 2:48 pm

    In someone else’s nightmare. Endless evil pursued her down dark alleys. Just when she thought she’d escaped, she’d trip, falling down into another bad dream.

    Reply
  33. Sinead Andrews says

    June 1, 2018 at 2:15 pm

    He often wondered what the inside of someone’s skull looked like, until the day he found out. Then he only wondered what to wonder next.

    Reply
  34. Elizabeth Montague says

    June 1, 2018 at 12:43 pm

    The coffin is rotting around her but her features are perfect. Eyes open and she smiles, fangs exposed, drawing you into her kiss.

    Reply
  35. Will Higo says

    June 1, 2018 at 8:32 am

    When I first went up, they told me:

    “In space, no-one can hear you scream”

    But if that’s true…

    …Why can I hear whispering?

    Reply
  36. Lesley Mace says

    June 1, 2018 at 12:45 am

    Sweet Sleep

    The lovers slept in each other’s arms. A dark mass seethed across the ceiling and spiders danced on silent threads, towards their faces.

    Reply
  37. Max King Cap says

    May 25, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    Legs numb and aberrantly angled, a rough stone cylinder elongated above him, the only light a waning crescent of dusk. Waning. Scraping. Waning. Scraping. Darkness.

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  38. Robert Lowen says

    May 24, 2018 at 10:10 am

    Andrea stumbled back to the car. Shaking, she dropped the keys. Reaching down, she touched something warm, wet, and squishy. She had found Jeremy.

    Reply
  39. John Meagher says

    May 17, 2018 at 12:56 pm

    There’s nothing in this big white room to play with.Wait……over there. It’s big and it’s red.It’s a button!

    Reply
  40. John Meagher says

    May 17, 2018 at 12:20 pm

    You thought I was gone, you thought you were free,I’m one with your mind, you’ll never be free.I am your nightmare!

    Reply
  41. Louise T Farrell says

    May 16, 2018 at 10:43 am

    Faces hidden behind grotesque masks. He ran, they ran. Knives aloft, baying for fresh blood. Onlookers stared, nobody would save him. He was their sacrifice.

    Reply

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