$500 Halloween 50 Horror Word Story Contest 2019

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1. Offering

   The howling continued in the forest outside her window. The trees stood like soldiers beneath the full moon.
   “Mommy, when will it stop?” Her daughter asked.
   Katarina shook her head. Dread weighted her stomach. She swallowed back tears. “It wants something I’ve got.” Katarina said, and turned toward her daughter.

2. AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL: “BURNEY TALKS PEER-PRESSURE”
   —
   Burney emerged in sunglasses and leather, dragged his dino-tail.

   “Take this or I’ll hate you,” Burney said.

   “Ok,” Timmy managed.

   Timmy swallowed the pills, felt good, sat down.

   Timmy’s eyes rolled back. He seized. The couch came alive, swallowed Timmy up.

   “Can’t believe we lost Timmy to drugs,” Burney said.

3. The Voices

   They scream in the night and through the day. They haunt you wherever you go. They chase you always until you die. They never rest or die. They make you think back. Back to that night when he murdered your family. The knife running them while you watch.

4. In the middle of the night, there was a loud crash. I walked out to see what was happening and there was a clown with blood on its mouth. I looked for my dog he was nowhere to be seen. I finally seen him in the hands of the clown. The clown started to run after me I screamed and looked to see finally caught up to me

5. Death by Billy Griffith

   As the days come to an end the children see a creature of pure horror gazing towards them. They try to run but the creature snatches them with his claws tearing into their flesh as he starts to feast a gunshot is heard but it was too late.

6. long day

   Another long day at work. idiotic people buying useless things for no real purpose. I finally arrive home, body aching. I lie in bed and close my eyes but when I open them. a vast sea of stars. a literal eternity. I scream, but nobody can hear me.

7. One night in the middle of the day,
   two dead boys went out to play,
   back to back, they faced each other,
   drew their swords and shot each other,
   a deaf policeman heard their noise,
   came and shoot the two dead boys…

8. The big bad werewolf

   there was a man, with hair. His eyes were dark red. I was running through the woods trying to get away from him. He kept getting bigger and bigger. Before you knew it I was gone, torn into shreds.

9. Murder

   The wind was whipping the curtains in and out of my open window. I cautiously got up to shut the window and I felt a cold rush of air, that was the last thing I remember before I woke up covered in blood with a knife in my hand.

10. Insanity

    As I enter the building thoughts of torture enter my head. The doctor tries to restrain me as I start tearing out the other patients’ eyes. Soon I feel nothing I stare into what is left of him as they drag me away.

11. Bundle Of Joy

    I was so happy. This miracle was about to happen, well at least I thought. I was rubbing my belly humming a song but soon turns into a scream. The baby rips out of my stomach eating all of my organs. I guess you could say I was a good mother.

12. Eight Minutes Left

    The first blasts cross the neighborhood. The waves penetrate through the brick walls of your home. The weatherman is missing. The news is showing footage of scorched towns. The news ticker flicks on. All that you can read through tears are “sun” “gone” “eight minutes” and “blackout”.

13. Another World

    A ghost boarded an Earth spaceship which took him to another world. Upon landing, the ghost sought refuge in a nearby cave. His mission was to scare or frighten to death the first someone or something who entered. He saw something. It couldn’t be. It was another ghost. How disappointing.

14. Grinning.

    He stared at his arm and watched his blood drip on the grass. Nathan’s voice echoed in his head, “It’s been playing us! Look! Look!” When he did finally look; the coyote grinned at him and snickered. The sound of ripping flesh, happy growls and painful screams echoed all around.

15. She is still here
    I was sitting in my bed alone going through my phone. I live alone. im always alone. some nights i hear creepy laughs and scratches on my wall. its probably my doll which my mom is trapped inside of. she died 10 years ago. she is a psychopath. What if—-

16. Apocalypse

    The apocalypse is over, we’ve won. We finally get to go back to living again… I awake from a dreadful sleep. All I can see now is the blood and the bite. I know that my deepest fear is coming true. I will soon be like the others. Nothing.

17. I hear everything around me. I hear the one person crying, the preacher speaking hopeful words, the pounding of dirt that come every 10 seconds, the one car driving away, and then the evedlasting silence. I hear everything, but I can’t move. If only they knew I wasn’t dead, yet.

18. PEEK-A-BOO
    They were sitting watching a movie. Outside you could here the thunder and rain. The t.v started glitching. So did the lights. Then everything went back to normal. Then everything completely shut off. The woman grabbed her flash light and shined it around the room. She saw a black figure.

19. A Joke Gone Wrong

    I couldn’t breathe, the blood smelled vile as it slowly dripped from the wall. I took in a sharp breath and stumbled as the smell burned my throat. Tears filled my eyes as I stared at the dissembled bodies, manic laughter filled the room. It was too funny for me.

20. A Little Black Cat

    I’ve always had trouble sleeping, tonight was no different. I would normally take comfort in staring at my black cats’ yellow bright eyes. I turned around in my bed hoping she was there, yellow eyes stared back at me. Panic filled my mind, my cat died three weeks ago.

21. Unkown

    All of the sudden, in a terrible instance, something would change the world. It would be everywhere. It would take over everything. Lives won’t go on. Cries and screams will be all around. It hasn’t ever been seen before. What is it? You won’t know till it’s too late.

22. Nuclear Family
    —
    Gonzalo blew out his 4 candles.

    He thought he blew so hard it rattled the house and made the windows flash.

    His father went outside to check.

    His mother cuddled close.

    His father returned, face dripping off his porcelain skull.

    “Goodbye,” he said.

    Gonzalo didn’t understand. Then, he couldn’t understand.

23. Alone
    The girl cries.
    ¨I want to be alone leave me alone ̈ she screams. there is no one in the room.
    ¨you will never be alone ̈ whispers a voice.
    ̈ ̈ just go away- ̈
    ̈ ̈NO!¨ the voice screams. the lots of black sand appear from the ground forming a shape. ̈ ̈RYAN she yells

24. A Grave Misunderstanding

    Bonded I rammed myself into the wooden lid. I could hear yells and the thumping of dirt hitting the wood. I was able to get my hands free, I tried to bash through the wood. They buried me once five years ago, if I left once I’ll leave again.

25. The Winner

    “Step right up! Try your luck!”
    Ben looked at Alice. The carnival lights buzzed around them.
    “Sure,” Ben said. He launched the baseball. The bottles toppled.
    “We gotta winner!” The carnie shouted.
    Two clownish hammers swung down from above, crushing Ben’s head. Blood showered Alice. The carnies howled with laughter.

26. Neighborhood Halloween Carvings

    He set down his chainsaw, threw a festive scarf around the bloody shoulders of the woman’s limbless torso that balanced firmly even without legs. The perfect Halloween carving.

    He knew his neighbors took pride in their measly pumpkins sculpted with crude faces.

    He also knew he was the real artist.

27. THE TRANSIT SYSTEM

    “Ticket please?”

    He’d processed countless lines of faces.

    The shabby man muttered and worked on.

    His calloused hands were constantly outstretched to usher late passengers past turnstiles.

    The city’s plague had taken its toll, and as he stacked the dead in darkened subway catacombs, the grim Porter cried; all aboard.

28. It Was All Teeth.

    Shifting like grains of sand under my feet. Biting into my bare skin. I could hear Her laughing, taste the metal of the pliers mix the blood on my own lips, my tongue finding the oozing gaps in my mouth. Here, it was just all these teeth, Her, and me.

29. Reflection

    The Tv talks about a murder on the loose. As you look around you see a figure in the snow. You turn for a second to grab the phone, and as you look back he is closer to the window. But there are no footprints.
    Its his reflection.

30. We Like To Play

    Imagine you’re different than everyone else.

    Because you feel. And they don’t. They just like to pretend.

    It’d be a fun little game.

    The only game.

    Imagine we’re always watching, from the corner of our eyes.

    And we want to give you a little hint.

    What would that be like?

31. Warning

    The full moon hangs pale in the blue sky. Not a cloud in sight, but the wind tells another chilly tale.

    Howl’s drift along the wind, and down the river, riling every dog in the neighbourhood.

    They give us all the warning we need. Do we listen?

    Too late now.

32. A little itch.

    I have an itch I can never scratch.

    But I want to ever so badly.

    I shouldn’t touch.

    I know it’s bad.

    But it’s been gnawing at my spine all day.

    I may just fiddle.

    Just a little. Something quick.

    She looks so delicious this evening.

33. Grim

    “Can you see me?”

    You can’t.

    Which makes the dry breath on your cheek so much worse. The voice is just a hiss against your skin, the goosebumps racing across it like ripples on water. Unseen, a cold hand brushes through your hair feeling of nothing but bones.

    “I’m smiling.”

34. One Last Time…

    “YES!” I exclaimed, peaking through the window as he approached my driveway. I ran swiftly, only to open the door to emptiness of the night, and not a person in sight. As I stood there, a text notification informed me that he had just been killed in a house explosion.

35. The Cat

    The Cat slumbered on the back of the couch.
    We walked past, holding our breath.
    Later it awakened and stretched, raking claws against the wooden doorframe, sharpening them to points.
    Tail twitching it headed down the hall looking for dinner.
    Huddled in our rooms, we hope it’s not our turn.

36. Hello! Good to see you.
    Welcome to your sentencing.

    Yes yes, you tried very hard, that’s very nice to see.

    Unfortunately, as you know, the afterlife is all about results… And I see The Northern White Rhinoceros still went extinct…

    Despite your trying very hard.

    Who’s fault was that then?

37. BONES PICKED CLEAN

    Still nauseated; Jay begrudgingly met friends for afternoon breakfast.

    “Someone’s been up to no good,” Kristen said.

    “Dude, your girl on the rag or something?” Tim crudely interjected.

    His fingers were caked in red, a sticky token from a foggy night.

    He started sucking the cuticles then paused. “Nope…hot sauce.”

38. Out for the Night

    Carnivals are fun. I love the food, the excitement, and the enjoyment of other people. I always get messy with my food, and the screams are just thrilling. With everything I do enjoy about carnivals I hate the house of mirrors. I can never see myself.

39. Safe Now

    One-by-one Mother led us to the casket to view the body. I didn’t want to go, but she nudged me forward.
    “Touch him,” she said. “Place your hand on his forehead.”
    My fingers rested on his cold hard flesh.
    “You’re safe now,” she said, “He can’t come back and haunt you.”

40. Someone or Something

    In the darkness of the barn, I stepped back, bumping into something where nothing should have been. My shoulder pressed up against someone’s chest, I could feel them breathing. Someone tall, like a man. I turned, saw no one. But deep down knew it had been someone or something.

41. NATURE’S CALLING

    BOOM…BOOOM…..BOOOOM…….

    Jane hid in the door frame until the quaking subsided; her house utterly annihilated.

    The solitary soul trembled as an indescribable terror lumbered into the distance; a gobsmacked woman’s mind splintered.

    Her gibbering cries quickly dissolved into fear when a massive F5 tornado loomed on the horizon.

42. Once there was a cannibal who would eat children he would eat them all up then call there parents and said “HA HA I ATE YOUR CHILD” and the police never found him so he keep going and going until it stop no one knows but he might still be out there.

43. Hide and Seek

    I was in the cabinet, I could hear his heavy breath as he trudged through the house. I could feel his anxiety.
    “Where are you!”
    He walked away from the kitchen, I peeked from behind the door. He took a knife, but I stayed hidden. That’s one way to play.

44. SHADOWS OF THE PAST

    Maybe we are the specters.
    The forms we bear dissolve; a temporal fleeting vapor, intangibles not built to last in the continuum.
    We die, fade, and go into oblivion.
    Yet they remain long after our time has passed, the ones called ghosts.
    What is real and what is the dream?

45. AN ABUSIVE PAST

    “Sit back, eyes closed, and slip into a relaxed state, go deep, deep as you can, are you there?”
    “Yes,” Came sleepy words.
    “Reflect back to your childhood, what thoughts come to mind?”
    “Run!” The woman shouted.
    “Why should you run?” The hypnotist asked.
    “She tried…” A demonic voice hissed.

46. The family was out, I stayed home alone while the thunder crashed, rain poured hard as the wind blew strong and lights went out. I heard moaning, but nothing, thunder again and moaning repeatedly. The family returned after I explained to mom and she said it may have been the spirit of the previous owner.

47. TRICK OR TREAT!

    The doorbell rang sending loud chimes throughout the house.

    I opened the door, staring in horror at the group of young children on my porch. Their masks were soaked in blood and knives held aggressively towards me.

    They stepped closer, launching their weapons into my frail body.

    “Trick or Treat!”

48. THANKS FOR THE HOSPITALITY

    A box sat on the couple’s counter, the remnant from an awkward visit’s conclusion.

    The strained weekend was a testimony of acceptance.

    “We’d thought Jeffrey went missing years ago,” the husband said opening the box.

    A note inside reads “MEANT TO RETURN THIS.”

    Underneath it sat a leathery old skull.

49. Mother Earth

    The earth held him back. Tree roots pinching his ankles, thistles slowing him down. He tried to cry for help, but leaves flew into his mouth. He choked. He spat them out. He fell onto the moss. It covered him like a blanket. He was part of the earth now.

50. Dead Man’s Fancy

    I learned the thrift shop clothes belonged to a dead man. A dapper style, a perfect fit. Now I have memories that aren’t mine, dead man’s memories of bloody, unforgivable deeds. His victims’ screams became music in my head. Emboldened, I sharpen a knife and venture out for the night.

51. MAMA’S BOY

    Mom, don’t leave me out here like this! Please open the door! You’re being cruel and thoughtless, and you’re scaring me! Someone will see what you’re doing to me, and they’ll be mad. Just open the door and give me your other arm! I’m all done eating the first one.

52. DINNER IS SERVED

    A silent house.
    Nobody asking “Honey, what’s for dinner?”
    She grinned to herself and remembered she had hidden ice cream in the freezer. 
    Shoving her husband’s severed head out of the way, she found the sealed pint of deliciousness. 
    With frozen confection in hand, she sang to him;
    “Hey Honey…Dinnertime!”

53. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

    Gasoline shoves itself into every crevice, choking and gagging me.
    “Please, Karma, you don’t have to do this.” I squint through my burning eyes.
    Her mouth quirks up. “Actually, I kinda do. You know what they say.”
    She steps back, lights the match, and tosses it toward me.

54. A WOMAN SCORNED

    Nails scraped against the walls.
    She closed her eyes.
    Then came the clacking of heels.
    “Don’t you want to be awake for your last show?” the other woman purred.
    She mumbled a last prayer.
    “Shame.” The woman fired a gunshot perfectly. “Lucky for you, Hell hath no fury like me.”

    1. ‘Inside the room’
       I was in my room.suddenly heard mom’s scream.i ran upstairs.the door of her room was open.it was dark inside her room.there was a silence in her room.i tarned on the lights.my mom was stained with blood.there is no one else in her room.she was dead.

55. NO GOODBYES

    “I can’t do it.”
    “General, you know your orders.”
    His finger hovered over the button. “I can’t.”
    “Yes,” a voice whispered, “you can.”
    His head smashed into the button. As he fell, he saw the words NUCLEAR STRIKE INITIATED.
    One blink.
    Two blinks.
    Three blinks.
    Then no one blinked again.

56. High Off Of You

    She felt him bite into her shoulder, tearing into the bone and flesh. His hunger rose tonight.
    Others around them were feeding on the flesh of their spouses, and she was famished.
    He was her drug and she was his. She soon bit into his neck.
    “You said I could…”

57. EAT UP

    He asks her to dinner. She says: come to my place. I’ll cook for you.

    The table in front of him is filled with plump, rotting organs; entrails turning black with age. A knife pushed between his lips cuts his tongue, forces that rot back behind his teeth.

    She smiles.

58. The Monster in You

    That strange tune is playing for him, how unreal as he feels tonight.
    Did he sell his soul to Mephistopheles?

    Tell me please, tell me dear…
    If you made a date with a devil not me.
    Do you know my fate?

    The cold wind just brings out your inner monster.

59. From The Siren’s Lips
    Her voice lured him into the water, near the edge of the shallows.
    Her voice was the only thing with him on this cold night.
    Her beauty bewitched him.
    Her sing enchanted him.
    He had no choice but to go her, into the deep water.
    Even sirens need to eat.

60. Occam’s Razor

    A burnt down condominium and an exploded apartment complex. Over a dozen dead. Why? Clogged dryer vents and a punctured gas line. Easy explanations for questions that lack meaningful answers. All eyes are on the homeowner’s associations, not the man driving a work truck. My pickup with ladders is invisible…

61. The Time of Prey

    Young Jonathan scrambles through the great-room until he reaches the tapestry. They’re here. They’ll find their way in. He pulls hard on the woven tale of his lineage and it collapses, hiding him beneath the fangs of ancient living family. Hunters of flesh, but now is the time of prey.

62. A Heart For Sale
    I watched him marry my sister.
    I felt their marriage tear me apart, as I fell from light and grace.
    I got tears in my dress, from running away.
    The pain was unbearable when I saw them again.
    ‘You’ll only frighten them again’
    I finally ripped out my broken heart.

63. Eva’s Fruit Is Rotten
    Eva has a pretty garden.
    She always invites the boys to come over and play over a glass of lemonade.
    When the date goes sour, her gardens grows lusher.
    All the boys have to play by Eva’s rules.
    Eva’s the queen of the garden, but always play fair.
    Or else.

    1. A Girls Night Out

       She’s me
       Im her
       We’re me
       I watch in the mirror as she gets ready.
       Clawing at her eyes, until they’re dark bloody sockets, fresh eye chunks left under her long jagged nails,
       She smiles at me with a disfigured smile,
       I smile back
       I step in, and she steps out.
       Sweet Dreams

64. Abandoned Bodies
    “I am alive!” My husband cried as he rose from his coffin
    I rose from the grave we shared and joined him in the night.
    They had sent that creature to kill us, they didn’t know that it would turn us.
    He grabs his sword, time to return the favor.

65. SPIN THE BOTTLE

    The party was noisy, fun. They were playing spin the bottle.

    The bottle stopped.. Amy screamed into the gag when she realized it was her turn.

    “Bye-bye, Amy”, whispered Jake, plunging the knife to her heart.

    The bottle started spinning again between other bound women..

    The party raved on upstairs….

66. Please, Will You Help Me?

    Where it’s from is not clear
    Where it goes in a hurry
    Nor even why it is here
    It skitters and scurries
    Up, down—all around I fear
    Won’t someone please help me
    With this spider in my ear

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67. Final Moments

    My eyes closed for the last time. I tried to scream but had already exhaled my last breath. I felt my myself begin to cool as my heart stopped beating. I heard sobbing around me. I tried to scream but had already exhaled my last breath. I tried to scream.

68. Into The Fire
    My brother was the favored child.
    He always got the best of everything, and I let him.
    When he stole my love, it was a step too far!
    Smug and preening his suit by the fireplace.
    ‘He can have the underworld, but Maria is mine!’
    I just watched him burn.

69. THOUGHT POLICE: INTERNAL AFFAIRS

    It was a just a paranoid suspicion at first, but one that became an ugly thought. Incredible, until she considered the whole of it, then undeniable.

    The thought grew legs which became roots, then teeth. The idea (the very idea!) consumed her totally. Ate her up from the inside.

70. Down To The Infirmary
    I’m going down to the infirmary.
    To see my Honey stretched out on the silver table, she so sweet and fair.
    I’m letting go, bless her. They will search all over, but they’ll never find my sweet Miss and me.
    Such sweet deadly grace and grave, cause we’ll go alone.

71. FEASIBILITY STUDY

    “One red meat grinds down pretty much like another,” said the butcher. “And beef is expensive.”

    “Perfect,” purred the cost-conscious restaurateur who knew the value of seasoning.

    For once he actually wound down the Bentley window on his way home, and grinned at the skidrow homeless.

72. MIDNIGHT DRIVE UP GALLOWS HILL

    Orange blurs scattering fast through peripheral vision.
    60 mph with half a milliseconds reaction time and split hallucinations.

    Driving through cold sweat moving just as fast down shivering skin.

    “Wait!” Ally murmured under pitch black cold air. Checking every mirror, trying to be aware. Dispersing through mist. Unknowing she’s not alone.

73. Drowning Into Despair

    Every place Eve goes, seems to remind her of Adam.
    She can’t let it go; he seems to find her.
    “I can’t find you another…” “Every time I fall into Despair…”
    Drinking her tears as they flood the room, the water gets deeper.
    Tying silver to her gown, she drowns.

74. CIRCUS SEATS

    Darkness, we all take a seat while human animals go crazy pulling us in. The wild audience’s maniacal laughter and flood lights causing abnormal hallucinations.

    Black, sticky seats, an hour has passed. She can’t get up. Feeling heavy, feeling numb. “Feeling stuck?” sung a soft voice in her head.

75. Sober Up High

    The sun blinds his eyes, as his sister’s story ends.
    The silence scared him, watching the blood dry on the sheets.
    The incense is calling “Come and play with her again~”
    The monsters come to the roof with him.
    “Never Again!” he screams before he jumps.
    Now he’s falling down.

76. “Until It’s Gone”

    Drip, drip, on the floor
    Drip, drip, here comes some more

    Drip, drip, don’t you move
    Drip, drip, more blood you’ll lose

    Drip, drip, the minutes pass
    Drip, drip, life fading fast

    Drip, drip, until the dawn
    Drip, drip, until it’s gone

    Drip, drip, oh what fun

    Drip…
    Drip…

    Done

77. THUMP
    Thump! You hit something. The tire is flat. A little Sasquatch still alive. Bind the wounds. Go for help. A cabin light across the wood. Calm the babe through burning breath.
    Thump! You hit something. Large, green eyes, rimmed with red. A mother’s wrath, and now you’re dead.
    Thump!

78. A strange feeling
    I woke up, dizzy. The bed was soaking red. There was blood on the walls. I reeled outside the room. A headless body lay in the hall. There she was – my wife, calm and composed, mopping. To her right, was an enormous chopping knife and to her left, my head.

79. Not a Victim
    Walking flimsily, a shadow from afar appeared.
    His right hand is holding his midriff as if he was in pain.
    He was trembling and crying hysterically while looking at me.
    My feet froze in terror and I can’t move.
    He raised his hand that was holding a bloody knife. Run!

80. Left Alone
    I ran so fast but you suddenly disappeared
    I thought it was weird but I did not hear any sound
    I stopped where you stood and looked for you around
    I started to weep, I don’t know why I’m sad
    In the floor not my tears but red, fresh blood.

81. Silent Waves

    Nightfall drapes over Lake Leery. After sunset, no one dare discover what lingers past the shore, beneath the water.

    Tonight, legends are tossed away. Two lovers sway with the waves, floating above vast darkness, unknown. Fear disguised by curiosity.

    At dawn, a shadow crouches among the trees. Watching. Patiently waiting.

82. The creepy house

    me and a girl called jade went trick or treating and we found this creepy house so we went and knocked on the door and this creepy voice shouted “ use the doorbell kids” so we pressed the doorbell and it sounded like laughter and screaming mixed together.i have dissapeared.

83. THE HOUSE-WARMING PARTY

    They said the house was haunted. I laughed in their faces.

    The day I moved in, I threw a party for my friends.

    The next morning, the cook woke me up, “I need the large knife. Your friend Rob borrowed it last night”.

    I hadn’t invited a friend named Rob.

84. THE UNKNOWN LADY

    Jen went to the comfort room. She was sure that she was alone when she enter.

    She was putting some lipstick when in her peripheral view, she saw someone, a lady copying her while smiling.

    Jen froze and the lady just stared at her while saying,

    “Finally, you are alone.”

85. TRANSPARENCY

    Okay if I lay down Doc.
    Yah, ve have all ze time in ze vorld. Vhat is ze pwoblem?
    The new tenets. They are driving me nuts. Won’t close doors, and they kind of scare me.
    Oh! You a scaredy-cat. Next time, tink of dis before you kill yourselves.

86. The Car ride

    It’s dark outside and we still have 6 hours till we get to Colorado. The next town is 2 hours away. All of a sudden the car just comes to a stop. The car won’t start and all I can think of is “what’s in these woods.”

87. THE MUD CREATURES

    The trail turned swampy. Lisa, as well as the others, readily complained.
    “This place looks creepy.”
    However, I insisted.
    “C’mon.”
    I pressed ahead.
    Then, suddenly, I heard their cries and turned around. But nobody was there anymore. And at that moment, powerful hands grabbed my ankles.

88. The Vampire’s Abusive Way

    Hand-cuffed
    In another’s Mansion,
    He stood
    By the window.
    His silk clothing
    Shining.
    His white fangs
    Sharp.
    Trapped,
    Sweating.
    Heart
    Thundering.
    He walks to me.
    Shaking. Struggling.
    “Don’t you dare”
    I stutter.
    “You think I care.”
    He chuckles.

    Grabbing
    Neck positioned.
    Fangs digging.
    Blood dripping.

    Fighting,
    Crying.

    Giving Up.

89. The Creature in the Basement

    I ran down the hallway. I looked out the windows. The other me was doing the same. SHE didn’t know the consequences.

    I heard a loud roar. She tripped and fell. I had to do the same. Its shadow loomed over me. I screamed. She didn’t move. So I couldn’t.

90. Writing with My Father

    The autumn wind cursed.
    The colorful leaves grumbled and coughed.
    The sun stared scornfully, while the clouds interrupted his vision. All of them desired to rebuke me for my sinful acts. My crime: Devilish writing. Every malicious word came true. My father, the Devil, demands “ Human Extinction.” Writing… Wish Granted.

91. RUN!
    Running faster than I can from the stranger in a dark coat, getting closer, I leap over the partially frozen creek. My shoes are wet, it’s getting harder to move. My lungs burn with icy air. I turn to see his face now grinning. It’s my Dad, laughing. “Happy Halloween!”

92. Write Wisely Friends

    Strapped into chair,
    I stare
    At the skeleton.
    Bedrock walls
    Surround us.
    “You wrote about us!”
    He snarls lifting my book.
    “Stating we rip
    Flesh off humans!”
    Sweating, straps loosen.
    My heartbeat pounds.
    “We don’t rip.
    We burn.”
    He clarifies.
    Then laughs.
    “Shall we Sweetie?”
    Skin burning.
    My screaming
    Echoes…

93. The Surgeon

    The drug rendered me immobile. All I could move were my eyes, which strained to see the dead around me.

    “They wouldn’t stay still,” the surgeon lamented.

    As a test, he jabbed his scalpel into me. I groaned with pain.

    He positioned his lamp and leaned in. “But you will.”

94. The Darkness Awaits Us All

    It was cold and dark, “Hello!” She shouted. There was no answer, no echo. Whats going on? She tried to stand but couldn’t move, couldn’t feel her body. She tried desperately recalling her last memory, or any memory but couldn’t think of one.
    Just the same reoccurring thought,”I’m dead.”

95. RATS!

    We had been told not to venture into the sealed tunnels beneath the city. Nonetheless, with pick and shovel, we dug a hole. I, however, being much bigger than the other boys, did not fit through it.
    I heard screams. Then, I saw the rats crawling out.

96. ONE SHAVING OF A RAVENOUS CHILD’S CORE

    Starving… buried to my neck. Ten days? Twenty? Soil settles between my hollow ribs. Her filthy ankles return… more venison, dripping grease, lowers to taunt me—voices? Rose perfume… “Is it ready, hag?” “Tricksy, love potions! The boy must lust for food ’fore I carve his heart.” Oh, I hunger…

    1. I love this one!

    2. Verrrryyy creeeeepppyyy!

    3. It’s amazing how much scare you can put into so few words. Wonderful.

    4. Totally creeps me out!

    5. Impressive! I can hear those witches cackling in my head…

    6. a most creepy recipe, indeed! Hansel an Gretl need to take heed

97. Surprise!

    A human skeleton hid inside a closet at a medical facility. More than anything, he wanted to leave the closet. He decided he would go with the next person who opened the closet door. Just then, the door opened. He almost fainted because before him stood another human skeleton. Surprise!

98. Tap… Tap… Knock

    Tap, tap. I sit up in bed. The noise is faint, but undeniably fingers tapping on glass.

    Tap, tap. I dart to the window. Nothing. Tap, tap. It comes from behind me, the mirror. I spin quickly but see only my own reflection.

    Knock, knock. It’s now in the closet.

99. WHAT WHAT

    What are you here for?
    Texting.
    Tough luck! Least I got drunk.
    That’s an angry neighbor in the adjacent unit. Been yelling since she got here.
    That’s my wife. Says this is what eternity is gonna sound like.
    Yikes! Give her a thousand years. She’ll get horse.
    What? What?

100. On a Moonless Night

     It’s the glint of long teeth against the window and the scrape of nails down glass. It’s holding your breath beneath the blankets, and it’s the moment it slinks away. It’s knowing that your parents won’t be home until midnight and it’s
     Remembering
     You
     Left
     The
     Door
     unlocked

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