Welcome to our 2019 $500 Halloween Horror 50 Word Story Contest. Yes, that’s right. It’s already here. Every year we run our contests, and those of you who have been frequent readers, this is what you’ve been waiting for.
First we will be doing a print issue! We will be doing 2 print issues, and we will pick entries from this contest to be in our issue. If you had a 50 word story designated to be in our print issue, from a past contest, please contact us.
Second, we will be giving out a $500 reward for the best 50 word horror story. This is not easy for us. Every Writer is not doing as well as it did in the past, but we want your stories. I believe writers should get paid for their work. I wish we could pay all of our writers, but it’s just impossible. So $500 for 50 words, I think is a unique and valuable statement to our readers. Ten dollars a word is what all writers really deserve.
So here are the rules:
• Story must be scary
• Story must be 50 words
• Story must be original and your own
• Story may not be published elsewhere
• Story must have a title (does NOT count in word count)
• Deadline is October 25, 2019
• Enter as many times as you want
• Story must be written in the comments below!
• Be nice or be disqualified
I love these stories. This is one of favorite traditions of Every Writer. I look forward to this every year, and this year I have extended the time we are going to spend with the contest.
The winners will:
• Be announced on October 31, 2019
• Will get $500
• Will be published in our digital and print issue.
• Will get an author page on our site
There is no entry fee for this contest. It would help us out greatly if you would donate 1$ or more, if you can, to help out the site. We would really appreciate it. A donation will not be considered in the deciding this contest.
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Good luck, and let the writing begin.
HERE IS THE WINNER
I have picked 4 stories. They all have times and days on them. If the winner does not respond by Friday 11/22/19 the money will go to the next story on the list. Here are the top 4 stories in order. ONLY OUR 1st PLACE WINNER gets the $500. Also, so this insanity never happens again, the winner will be invited back next year to be one of the judges.
WINNER 1st Place:
Kit Steward 10/13/19 5:20 pm
THE MIDNIGHT INCUBATOR
She heard mushy sounds for days and suffered from unbearable itchiness.
A doctor’s visit revealed earwig pupae nesting in her ear canal, it was flushed out.
Later, weary from stress, she crawled into bed.
That night while she slept, the creature returned.
And finding the eggs missing, it laid more.
2nd Place:
Elizabeth Lee 09/24/19 4:36 pm
Secondhand Doll
She didn’t want a secondhand doll so she flung it across the room. Porcelain cracked against the wall. Her mom made her glue the pieces back together. A thin shard sliced her hand, baptizing the doll in her hateful blood. The secondhand doll decided she didn’t want an ungrateful child.
3rd Place:
Alexander Daley Escobedo 10/25/19 3:38pm
Heirloom
We Buried my brother today. Suicide. He thought something evil was haunting him. He’d been medicated, institutionalized, shocked and secluded. He found his own way out. I wish I could tell him I’m sorry. Or had listened more closely. Because, when I got home, it was on my couch. Laughing.
4th place:
JB 10/25/19 8:12pm
TITLE: RESEVOIR
We should have known something was wrong when we first tasted the water. It was a little brown, but no more than usual in this apartment complex.
We kept drinking it until it turned black.
When they opened the water tank, they found the bloated, rotting corpse of my neighbor.
We usually always contact the winners first, but after all the trouble, we are opening up the process. I am again, very sorry for how late this is. I did not expect 4000 stories. Next year I will be ready.
Luke Whaley says
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.
Vic Ortiz says
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.
Michael K. Rhoden says
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.
Nicole says
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
Billy Griffith says
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.
reuben says
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.
Xander says
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…
Tim says
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.
Katelyn says
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.
Billy Griffith says
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.
Starr says
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.
christian says
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”.
Gerri Zimmerman says
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.
meagan harrison says
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.
Jasmin taylor says
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—-
Reese B. says
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.
Paige Smith says
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.
Jasmin taylor says
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.
Hunter Hoppe says
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.
Hunter Hoppe says
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.
Paige Smith says
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.
Vic Ortiz says
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.
Jasmin taylor says
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
Hunter Hoppe says
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.
Luke Whaley says
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.
Andrea Pavlicek says
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.
Kit Steward says
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.
Christina Smith says
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.
Alyssa Vanderpool says
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.
R says
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?
MJ K says
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.
Name Namerson says
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.
Christina Smith says
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.”
Krystal says
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.
Lisa W says
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.
Uh Oh says
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?
Kit Steward says
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.”
Hunter Hoppe says
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.
Barbara says
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.”
Barbara says
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.
Kit Steward says
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.
Jungjin Lee says
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.
Hunter Hoppe says
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.
Kit Steward says
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?
Kit Steward says
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.
Angela M. Rodriguez Schwalm says
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.
Brianna Witte says
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!”
Kit Steward says
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.
Nicole says
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.
Harold C. Holt says
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.
Harold C. Holt says
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.
Deanna Jean says
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!”
Jessica Carpenter says
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.
Jessica Carpenter says
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.”
Kausarbanu says
‘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.
JESSICA CARPENTER says
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.
Elaesa Jones says
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…”
Sarah Chamberlain says
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.
Elaesa Jones says
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.
Elaesa Jones says
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.
Logan Ball says
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…
Gregory Clouse says
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.
Elaesa Jones says
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.
Elaesa Jones says
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.
Gloria Feuer says
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
Elaesa Jones says
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.
Leena says
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….
O’Dempsey Rynehart says
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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Natural Causes says
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.
Elaesa Jones says
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.
Em Jenner says
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.
Elaesa Jones says
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.
Em Jenner says
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.
cookie monster says
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.
Elaesa Jones says
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.
cookie monster says
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.
Elaesa Jones says
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.
Jonathan Houston says
“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
Brianna Keeper says
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!
Victor Nandi says
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.
MM says
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!
MM says
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.
Gabby says
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.
william rennie says
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.
Bindu John says
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.
Karen Cancino says
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.”
Brianna Keeper says
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.
Karissa says
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.”
Gonzalo Leon-Gelpi says
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.
Annie Pichardo says
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.
Erynn Butler says
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.
Annie Pichardo says
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.
Chris says
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!”
Annie Pichardo says
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…
Adam Ehrenberg says
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.”
Rayana Sweigert says
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.”
Gonzalo Leon-Gelpi says
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.
Jessica Federle says
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…
Elizabeth Allie says
I love this one!
Dina Towbin says
Verrrryyy creeeeepppyyy!
Rose Mary Boehm says
It’s amazing how much scare you can put into so few words. Wonderful.
Lauris says
Totally creeps me out!
Tamara Reid says
Impressive! I can hear those witches cackling in my head…
Kathi says
a most creepy recipe, indeed! Hansel an Gretl need to take heed
Gerri Zimmerman says
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!
Tamara Reid says
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.
Brianna Keeper says
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?
Alyx Barter says
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