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!
Louise T Farrell says
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.
John Meagher says
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!
John Meagher says
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!
Robert Lowen says
Andrea stumbled back to the car. Shaking, she dropped the keys. Reaching down, she touched something warm, wet, and squishy. She had found Jeremy.
Max King Cap says
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.
Lesley Mace says
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.
Will Higo says
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?
Elizabeth Montague says
The coffin is rotting around her but her features are perfect. Eyes open and she smiles, fangs exposed, drawing you into her kiss.
Sinead Andrews says
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.
Teresa says
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.
Candice Davies says
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.
Elizabeth Montague says
“Hello friend.”
“Who are you talking to sweetie?”
“My friend in the wardrobe.”
Every day she hears the same until one morning…
“Goodbye Mummy.”
Andrew Salamoun says
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.
Robert Stout says
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.
Amy Buchanan says
The man awoke after being dead for a long time. His new eyes saw the crying child in his arms as a delicious treat.
Amy Stripling says
Drained of my blood one drop at a time.
Fear grips my heart as I hear the telltale nightly drone of my tormentor.
Allen Alright says
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.
Miriam says
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.”
Brianna Appling says
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.
Brianna Appling says
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.
Nate Ealy says
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.
علی ابراهیمی says
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
علی ابراهیمی says
Your heart rate rises
The knife was in his hand. His eyes were puffy
He cut his throat
Blood erupted
I woke up suddenly
Luke Garza says
A robed figure stood in my headlight beams. It had no face, but shrieked at me somehow. I slammed the car into reverse.
Luke Garza says
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.
Luke Garza says
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.
Luke Garza says
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!”
Cynthia Castillo says
“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.
Yoshino Yamauchi says
The End is near…
The End.
Andrew Salamoun says
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.
Luke Garza says
When aliens found the remains of the last two humans, they made a startling discovery: the humans had died by strangling each other.
Luke Garza says
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.”
Steve Lucas says
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.’
Brianna Appling says
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.
Luke Garza says
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.
Luke Garza says
In the pitch black of my bedroom, I awoke, rubbing sleep from my eyes. Something descended from the ceiling. A face, green, ghastly, grinning.
Steve Lucas says
‘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!’
Brianna Appling says
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.
Brianna Appling says
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.
Jon Cowling says
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.
Every Writer says
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.