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• Story may not be published elsewhere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.
If you want to keep up with me on Twitter, please follow me at @everywriter, I follow back all writers.
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.
Jeffrey Henderson says
SUBMARINE
[SYSTEM BOOT FAILURE// PRIORITY RESET_HK PROTOCOL- RED FLAG]
0067:UNIDENTIFIED HOSTILE ORGANISM HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT BARRIER.
REDUNDANT SECURITY/ CONTAINMENT FAILSAFES AT CRITICAL.
[OCULAR SCAN FAILURE- PRIORITY MANUAL OVERRIDE 65X4t2]:
-this is Lt. Cmndr. Kovacs/USS Farragut: organism has escaped. 12 deceased. I’m the only one le—————
[END TRANSMISSION]
Cynthia Can says
Father for Dinner
Mother ground fresh meat into the meat grinder.
“Fresh hamburgers for dinner tonight my lovelies, settle down now, and get ready to eat your dinner.” The youngest said, “These burgers are tasty, won’t Papa be joining us for dinner?”
Mother smirked and said, “No, Papa has had a little accident.”
Jeffrey Henderson says
THE TRAVELLER
As she grabbed her bag from the carousel, she recognized him from earlier; they had struck up a friendly conversation waiting to pass through security at LaGuardia. He flashed a warm smile and suggested sharing a cab when she noticed the blood oozing from his suitcase, onto the floor.
Jeffrey Henderson says
DATE NIGHT
He apologized and ran out, as he always did afterwards. With a rag to her bloody nose, she smiled wide. This would be the last time he ever put a hand on her; the bag of angry rattlesnakes she dumped in the cab of his truck would see to that.
Jeffrey Henderson says
NIGHTY NIGHT
Baby had always been a restless sleeper, but tonight he didn’t make a sound. Mommy awoke to a horrific scream. She bolted to the nursery to find Baby staring back at her with yellow eyes; bloody remnants of the cat strewn about the crib, it’s head in Baby’s mouth.
Sofia Reiland says
Family Heirlooms
When I was eleven, my mother gave me a jar of teeth.
She always used to tell me,
“Don’t lose those teeth.”
So I spit,
And my right molar drops into my hand.
I reach into the jar and
Grab a new tooth.
Oh good, I think, it fits perfectly.
Sofia Reiland says
The Wendigo
The antlers had ripped through its flesh, twisting inwards on themselves in the neverending form of the Fibonacci sequence. It was sickly, cancerous—gaping mouth too hungry to ever shut. Yet, the worst part was its eyes; not because they were too human, but because they were looking straight at you.
Sarah Maumasi says
THE OAK TREE
The deep blue reflected the few, wispy clouds drifting sluggishly at 2000 feet. The hood of her 57 Chevy was scalding. She stepped under the branches of the old, gnarled oak tree. Haunted, some said. Not her. Until the branch pierced her throat. But then, it was too late.
Angela Cantiga says
WOMAN IN RED
A primary school teacher saw her pupil’s drawing.
It’s an eerie picture of a woman covered with red. Huge, bulging eyes. Long, raven hair.
Her student said it’s her idol and friend. When asked to name the woman, the girl said with an innocent smile, “Of course it’s you, teacher.”
Sarah Maumasi says
SCHOOL SPIRIT
He paused outside the classroom, listening to Julia’s muffled laughter. Every day. 19 years.
“Good morning, Principal Endstrom,” she said.
His eyes rose from his clipboard.
“Good morning, Julia.”
He hadn’t meant to do it.
Hadn’t he?
Inside the classroom, the students eyed Crazy Endstrom as he mumbled, shuffling away.
Sarah Maumasi says
THE DANGERS OF A CELL PHONE
“It will eat your brain,” they said.
“Don’t sleep with it under your pillow,” they said.
“This is based on actual research,” they said.
“Who is ‘they’?” everyone asked. Until they couldn’t.
Sarah Maumasi says
THEY’RE COMING
“This little piggie,” she cooed, glancing out the window.
Who’d ever heard of a green sky?
“Damn factories,” John had said, disappearing to follow the metallic clouds, leaving them alone.
She knew it wasn’t factories. It was Them. She’d heard the wind.
She’d make sure they were dead. Safe. But, not yet.
Sarah Maumasi says
DON’T LISTEN TO HALEY
He said he’d give them a ride. Haley said it’d be fine. They got high with him and he chained them up. Then broke their legs. One by one. Arms after that.
Then he ate Haley. Alive. Until she wasn’t. She wasn’t high anymore. Maybe she was already dead.
Cynthia Can says
The Garden from Hell
Piercing screams fill my ears as I storm through the pumpkin patch in search of its source. There, a child lies sobbing, bloodied and missing a limb, as a needle toothed jack-o-lantern feasts upon his missing appendage. Suddenly, hell’s garden begins to wake, as I soon realize we are surrounded.
Edwinah Namugambe says
A Harvest So Good
Am relishing what am eating, like any mother would. Acquiring such an opportunity to taste healthy intestines and kidneys of an offspring is little to none, yet here we are, enjoying the goodness of the year’s harvest, at dinner, accompanied with it’s brain to spice up the worthy dessert.
Sarah Maumasi says
IN LOVE
“Kiss me slow,” she said, her voice rising with passion over the din of the river below.
He leaned in, turning his head, eyes closed, soft, sweet.
Cold, limp lips. His eyes flung open as she pushed.
She flipped out a switchblade and scratched Jenny + Jimmy into the railing.
Sofia Reiland says
The Princess of the Rats
Princess Bloodwyn was born with her teeth grown in and her fingernails rotted. Horrified, the King and Queen ordered their baby to be abandoned in the woods and left for dead. Poor Bloodwyn eventually befriended the forest’s diseased rats, and at sixteen, she sent them to eat her parents alive.
Sofia Reiland says
Bad Habits Die Hard
She hides her hands with mittens, looking guilty.
“You know I’m always telling you biting your nails is a bad habit.”
“I know,” she pauses, “I’m embarrassed, I bit them back way too far.”
“Show me.”
She pulls off the mittens and I laugh. She’s bitten her fingers clean off!
Cynthia Can says
Hunted
Her pawns wear the mark of prey upon their foreheads. The mark is a target, invisibly seared upon the flesh of the predator’s next victim. Once you are forcibly branded with the mark, you have been chosen, so please get ready to run, as the hunt is about to commence.
Angela Cantiga says
WELCOME HOME
Her parents just got home from their business trip. Exhausted, they rested in their bedroom while the girl answered a phone call.
Her heart stopped when she heard her mother’s voice on the other end, telling her to lock all the doors and windows and never let any stranger in.
Sundar Velpula says
Dark Red Pigment
“The shiny, round, delicate embellished tube which contained the dark reddish color pigment was broken”, said Anika in a whimsical tone.
Immediately, a dagger was penetrated into her throat and the arrogant wizard chanted spells due to which blood started to ooze out from eyes other holes in the body.
Cynthia Can says
Halloween Night
Tonight is the night of Halloween,
When ghouls come alive and ghosts can be seen.
Witches cackling on broomsticks soar high in the sky,
While famished vampires rise from their sarcophagi.
Listen closely.
Do you hear a strange tune?
It is sung by a werewolf upon this eerie full moon.
Angela Cantiga says
LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE
Everybody said I have some kind of illness which I’m unaware of. It seemed to be incurable.
After learning that laughter is the best medicine, I gave the voices around me a chance to heal me. They turned out to be infectious instead.
I, myself, began laughing along with them.
Angela Cantiga says
MY FATHER IS AN ALCOHOLIC
My father would always show up late at night, reeking of liquor.
Tonight isn’t any different. He’s shouting my name in front of the house again. I headed downstairs and reached for the doorknob.
That was until my father grabbed me and whispered, “Don’t go outside. I heard it too.”
Sundar Velpula says
The scary Vineyard
This vineyard was the spookiest one according to reports”, said Peter in a macabre tone. Jess was trying to run but was grabbed and twisted by the long vines. Finally, her blood and squashed body were left. Peter horrified and shouted before expelling all the blood out of his body.
MJ K says
The Dinner Guest
“One more bite, dear?”
“I’m so full.”
“C’mon, open wide.”
Reluctantly, I bite down. Something warm dribbles down my chin as I catch a glimpse of her once porcelain skin, now sloughing off.
Coming to, I look down.
Her flesh peels off bony fingers as she holds out another eyeball.
Tamara Reid says
Steven King once said, “…if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out.”
This one had all three!
Angela Cantiga says
IN MY HEAD
Mom and Dad are fighting again.
They’re always at each other’s throats. Today’s a lot worse. I clenched my fists before grabbing a nearby knife and stabbing them. Mom’s first because she’s more annoying. I watch as blood scatters around.
Then I open my eyes and see them still quarreling.
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
THE CALL
“Hello,” I picked up the receiver. Instantaneously, it clattered to the floor. I sat terrified on my bed. The voice at the other end of the line was mine.
I do not know what was more terrifying: that I was calling myself or that I had died two months ago.
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
THE ALIEN
“Where is the goddamn alien egg that we found at the crash site? How could it just disappear?” the supervisor screamed at his technicians.
As he stopped by the washroom, he checked his reflection in the mirror. The color of his eyes changed suddenly. The egg had hatched inside him.
Harshit Gehlot says
The Open Door.
I heard a small girl’s cry .I went out to look , surprisingly the cry turned into a laugh.I bolted inside and locked the doors ,suddenly my door was knocked with heavy hands,few seconds ago a haunting voice tells me “You left the terrace’s door open” and I fainted.
Edwinah Namugambe says
Burdens of a Sinner
It’s an enormous hungry something, dragging me towards a tiny darkened opening, digging it’s claws into my skin’s depth, as I continuously yelp in anguish, daring me to hesitate in surrendering my soul. And on waking up in an unlit place, it’s stirring right at my spirit with flaunt thirst.
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
THE TYPEWRITER
As I typed furiously on the cursed typewriter, rage filled up inside me. Everything I had ever typed on the typewriter had come to life. I was writing a violent death for the critic who had trashed my latest novel. But whose name had I absent-mindedly written?
It was mine.
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
THE SERIAL KILLER
I am running for my life, through the streets of London. He is after me, the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. I stop, gasp and find a bloody knife hidden deep inside my coat pocket. A voice inside my head tells me, “Go find your next victim.”
I wink.
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
THE REAL WORLD
As I looked at the mirror, I saw a strange glow coming from the inside. Curious, I went closer. Suddenly, two hands leaped out and grabbed me. I struggled in vain but was pulled inside.
An ominous voice informed, “Welcome to the real world. The illusion is on the outside.”
Rohan Magerman says
Epitaph
In Loving Memory of Our Father And Grandfather Toby Gray
BORN: April 5, 1925
DIED: August 30, 2008
DIED AGAIN: September 3, 2008
“Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise” – Isaiah 26:19
Vera Van Mierlo says
Crunchy
“Johny, Johny!”
“Yes, papa?”
“Eating sugar?”
“No, papa!”
“Open your mouth!”
The white granules that tumbled out looked like sugar, but…
Papa finished putting flowers on grandma’s grave. Gristle and bone.
“Ask daddy first, okay?”
“Yes, papa.” Johny swallowed the rest.
“They just bury ‘em way too shallow,” papa grumbled.
Rohan Magerman says
Not Alone
“Be good now. We’ll be home soon,” Mom said over the phone.
“Fine.” I replied, my eyes unusually heavy with sleepiness. “I’m in bed already. The babysitter’s given me some warm milk.”
Mom’s voice trembled when she spoke again. “Sweetie, we didn’t hire a babysitter.”
Rohan Magerman says
VISITOR
The crash decapitated his pregnant wife.
To save the baby, paramedics pushed a breathing tube down the hole in her neck.
One evening, he heard a gurgling sound coming from the closet. Like someone breathing through a severed neck.
Opening the closet door, he found her burial dress hanging there.
Rohan Magerman says
GRAVEDIGGERS
‘How deep are we supposed to go? We’re over twelve feet down.”
“It’s a triple depth,” he responded.
“Oh,” I said. “So, a double is for a married couple. But who’s the third person?”
He appeared at the edge of the grave, blocking out the moon. “He’s already down there.”
Rohan Magerman says
Walk Me Home
My neighbor drove past me last night as I walked home alone.
“Sorry I couldn’t give you a ride,” he apologized the next day. “Only had space for one.”
“No problem,” I said. “But I was on my own.”
“Then who was the old woman walking beside you?”
Rohan Magerman says
The Wind’s Lullaby
Lying in bed, I listened to the wind’s melancholic song. A drawn-out symphony of voices wailing in despair.
Something banged in the other room.
Must have left a window open.
As I started to get out of bed, I noticed the tree outside my window wasn’t moving.
Msizi says
THERE IS BLOOD IN HIS NAILS , HE TRIED TO WASH HIS HANDS TO RID THEM OF THE BLOOD , THE SCREAMS LAST NIGHT COULD IT BE THE MURDERER OF THE WOMAN FOUND DEAD THIS MORNING , HER EYES TAKEN OUT AND FACE PEELED OFF ,COULD IT BE THAT MY PASTOR WAS KILLER
Andrea Baron says
EARTHQUAKE
I woke up to my bed shaking.
I panicked, thinking that there’s an earthquake, but as I stood up, it suddenly stopped.
I asked my parents about the earthquake. They replied that they hadn’t felt anything at all.
That night, I never expected to find the culprit underneath my bed.
Mandla G M Mathenjwa says
The creepy stranger
Have you ever read fate through someone’s eyes?
Well, as an empath, I have.
I was headed home, in a bus and then suddenly something caught my eyes. It was a glaring stranger.
He was staring at me and his evil eyes were written with murder on them.
He stood…
Angela Cantiga says
SOMEONE’S COMING
The clock struck midnight when I woke up to something inhuman strangling me.
Sharp, rotting nails. Bloody eyes. Crooked smile.
I tried to scream only to wake up again. It’s just a dream. I saw the clock almost striking midnight. Then I heard footsteps and the floor creaking.
Someone’s coming.
Lydia Matte says
SLIPPING AWAY
I found him kneeling at my door step, too weak to stand.
Beaten, pieces of flesh cut out, intestines pouring out…
Only six years old…they said he had to pay for my wrongs.
He was slowly slipping away.
I woke up amidst so much pain, my tummy hurt for days.
The writer says
Burried Love
Burried my wife in a dense forest.
Misty night with tress rustling.
Cut off her finger to keep the expensive wedding ring. Ran away from there,don’t know from what. Wolfs howling and me terrified, saw a cottage and went in. A young frail women offered me hot beverage. “What happened” asked I when saw her bleeding finger, she said, “YOU KILLED ME!!!”
Anthony Wilhoit says
Hell’s Messiah
Destruction of the soul without detection is every demon’s goal. Cambion greedily walked toward the crib. He licked his fangs at the ivory soul of the infant. His master would be pleased; Cambion gripped the wood panels and climbed in. Perhaps someday this child will be the bringer of darkness.
The ghostwriter says
A Dream Come True
A Clown laughing at me on a misty night . Swings swinging with no one on them, two freshly cut heads on the see-saw staring at me. The park is on fire but its very cold. I screamed in terror to know it was a dream. But then i saw the same clown sleeping beside me.
Kit Steward says
BEAST OF A THOUSAND EYES
Agile, relentless, patrolling the air, dominant of Cartesian space.
A carnivorous machine salivating with enzymatic drool, it renders unsuspecting prey to sludge.
Its spawn can devour a corpse in a span of days.
It would love to dine on your rotting flesh, and it will someday.
The Musca domestica awaits.
O. Samuel Oumo says
WAKE ME UP
…
Dark, as it has been;
Quiet! No, silent.
Sight, light! But it’s dark.
A dream, I wake-up.
Bright now, like hell. Cannot find my lips. Too silent.
Wait, no breathe! No sense.
OH, it is not dark, it is not bright,
A dream, I wake-up.
Dark, as it has been;
…
Hope N. Griffin says
Skull Smasher is Back
As dad drives the rhythm of rush hour lulls me to sleep. Horns and screams jar me awake. A giant, veins bulging against bleached skin, stands seconds behind us. Peeling back a cab’s roof he lifts the driver and slams her to the ground. Our eyes meet. We are next.
Vera Van Mierlo says
A rich dish
“I’m not sure…”
“C’mon, man, 20k to complete a haunted house tour? We’ll be rich!”
“But no one has ever finished it!”
“Fine, I’ll go alone. Don’t expect me to share!”
His host bolted the door.
“Where’s your chubby friend going? I was really in the mood for mixed grill…”
Mary McGinn says
The Walk Home~
She walked along Main Street when she heard her name. “Emma, Emma” She began to run. She tripped on a root that wasn’t there before. When she got up, she saw shadows behind her. When she turned around, no one was there. Her phone was buzzing. It said “Good-Bye Emma”
Kate Johnson says
BLOOD ON GRAVEL
I run down the beach. My black hoodie swinging behind me from the wind. Cops all along the deck. They let me through. There on the gravel a boy lays dead. My eyes widen. He has brown hair, green eyes, tan skin. And he’s wearing a black hoodie. I’m dead…
Kate Johnson
Kate Johnson says
THE TRUTH IN NIGHTMARES
My bedroom door opens. A figure comes in slamming the door behind. I want to scream for my dad. But somehow I couldn’t. Its bloody hands squeeze my neck. I scream waking up to my dad next to me. As he calms me I notice the blood on his hands…
Kate Johnson
Joshua Goldman says
Cannibal’s biltong
I’ll never forget the putrid smell of rotting flesh; seasoned bodies laid sliced open on the table. My wrists tied with barbed wire, I hung naked, my body blistered from the fire. Frightened and dehydrated I tried to cry but no tears escaped. The butcher emerged holding a bread knife.
Kate Johnson says
WHISPERS FROM THE GRAVE
Short, light voices call my name. Over and over. I run down the hall covering my ears. I turn back, noticing the shadows following. I slam into a mirror, it shatters. The voices stop. I look back to the hallway. My dead family members stare back at my face.
Kate Johnson
Dana D Sterner says
The Beast Beneath
Sinking, she reached for my hand, but blood oozed between our fingers.
She wrestled flailing in the slim, eyes wide, screaming, as the cold darkness took her.
Helpless, I jumped back watching as bubbles surfaced. The murky green froth boiled, erupting, flying, clinging.
It inhaled, glurp! Then reached for me.
Michael Devine says
THE KLOWN KAR
Circus nostalgia with my daughter and the Klown Kar- a half dozen clowns from a car that should only hold two. But at twenty the audience gasped, then screamed at one hundred, a riot started at two. If I could just reach that damn Klown Kar and stop the flow.
Copper Smith says
Title: That noise at the back door
What the hell was making that noise?
Everything else about Jessica’s evening was flawless. A new life, new husband, new start after a rough last few years. Even the house felt brand new after gutting and renovating.
Shovel in hand, she gasped at the empty hole below. “Where’s the body?”
Angela Cantiga says
HIDE N’ SEEK
I used to play hide and seek with my cousin. He’s so good at it that he’d never failed to find me. Wherever I went, he’s there.
But then, I stopped playing with him when his mother revealed something to me.
“It couldn’t have been him. My son is blind.”
Atondrila Kabir says
The Grave Error
Me and my buddy, James high-five after we finish burying Lily. I still chuckle recalling her desperate attempts to free herself. Coming back home, I feel a vibration in my pocket. It’s a text from her, sent now, “I’m coming over.”
Dana D Sterner says
The Beast Beneath
Sinking, she reached for my hand, but blood oozed between our fingers. She wrestled flailing in the slime, eyes wide, screaming, as the cold darkness took her. Helpless, I jumped back watching as bubbles surfaced. The murky green froth boiled, erupting, flying, clinging. It inhaled, glurp! Then reached for me.
Edwinah Namugambe says
Wild, Untamed Angel
She appears innocent to the living, even sexy to be precise, yet she’s the Mazikeen in Lucifer, the demon one would never wish to cross because even the slightest annoyance can cause her to pay the victim a visit she’s the devil’s disciple, and I’m her creator.
Atondrila Kabir says
He’s Alive.
Jack put down his pen and smiled wearily. Fifteen weeks and ‘Charli’ was his best character yet. Vicious, cruel and utterly heartless, the doll was an absolute nightmare. He grinned. “Daddy, I found a doll.Meet Charlie.”, his son held up a ragged worn doll. It winked.
Raymond A says
Girl Killed in a closet,
A Girl trapped in a closet. Tools and torcher weapons coming at it. girl is extremely scared. Tools and weapons knocking on the door wanting to come and kill the girl. Girl is terrified and know she is going to die. Tools and weapons in the room girl dead blood everywhere.
Drew B says
The Truth
Throughout the night the screaming continued, my parents warned me of a monster, I couldn’t see anything, all I could do was hear the monster, when my eyes finally opened I saw them, my family laying motionless on the ground with a knife in my hand, the monster was me.
Mae N says
Haunted House
Screams fill the area around me. The sound of chainsaws follow me through the hallway. It’s dark, I can hardly breathe. Once I think I’m finally safe, a man with a machete jumps right in front of me. I close my eyes, but when I open them, he was gone.
Maddy S-T says
I walk the alleys and I walk the roads of every street. I hunt the people, your fear and pain fuel me. Your screams are music to my ears. You will not escape me. I know everything about you and your family, your soul will be forever mine. I’m coming.
Reece H says
Jack
My work is not one that god or any sain person would approve of. By dissecting the ones that aren’t worthy of living I can cure the ones that are. My name is jack I’m a doctor who just wants to save people. And you are someone who’s not worthy!
Erica B says
Panic Attack
My head. Shaking.Throat closing. I can’t breathe. Falling. Deeper and deeper. It hurts. Why does it hurt?! Why do I feel like this?! What’s happening?! I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die! Why?! Panic. Panic! PANIC! I can’t do it. It hurts so much! Make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!
Kacey W. says
Mommy
The wind busted my window open. The breeze came howling in. Then I heard footsteps, me thinking “it’s just my son getting some water.”
I heard the steps become far away, then coming closer. I locked my door. The doorknob jiggled, a knife stabbed through my door.
“Bye Bye, Mommy…”
Prachi Shah says
Nightmare
Bile rose in his throat as the killer slowly peeled his skin. Unable to close his eyes, he watched helplessly as he raised his knife. He gasped and woke up. “PLEASE COME BACK!” he cried. Even nightmares are precious when you are the last one alive on Earth.
Jack R. says
The chasers
We knew they were coming for us, and we knew that our only hope was to stay huddled together and pray that they didn’t see us hiding in the field. We saw what they did to Billy in the barn and knew that they would have no mercy on us.
Hadley S says
Camping Trip
A dark foggy night, Liz and Maddy were camping, they sat around the slowly dying fire. Liz got tired and went to sleep, Maddy went to get wood for the fire. Maddy heard multiple loud screaming noises and ran back to the tent feeling eyes watching her, Liz was gone.
Paige A says
Something Is Out There
It was dark and cold as Ava was trying to find her friends through the spooky graveyard. She was trembling as she called for them Ava heard a scream from behind a statue as she went over to look. Just then Ava knew what they were scared of. THE BEAST.
Oscar C says
The Asylum
Everyone has a creepy next door neighbor, but you don’t have one like mine. Someone was murdered in that house and every night voices come from it and have gotten louder and louder to the point where they are screaming. But now they’re gone, have they left, or have I.
Elizabeth Brown says
The Phone Call
It was a dark night and mom and dad were sitting by the fireplace. Suddenly the phone begins to ring. To their surprise they hear the voice of their older daughter that disappeared 18 years ago. They listened to her in fear because they were the ones who killed her.
Evan M says
The Campout
It was a windy night, we had just got into the tent, we heard heavy footsteps, I went to see what it was, nothing, I asked someone that was still outside at the fire, he saw nobody, we went in our tent and tried to sleep, morning shall be soon.
Noah C says
The Old House
The house creaked with every footstep that was taken. Doors slammed all around them. As they grouped together one wandered off, screams were heard from the basement. They called for her, no response. They saw it. Four teens have gone missing and not one clue about their whereabouts are known.
Mal. T says
No ones there
I heard the heavy tread of someone’s boots but I was home alone. I heard a faint talking but the TV was not on. I called my mom to tell her and she responded with “Oh honey it’s grandma taking a stroll through the house.” but grandma died years ago.
Angela Cantiga says
NIGHT OF MOON-VIEWING
It’s a calm, clear night.
Suddenly, my phone received an alert, telling me to stay inside my room. Along with it are the words, “Don’t look at the moon.”
But then I began receiving messages from my friends and family, telling me to join them outside and watch the moon.
Maddy S-T says
Your worst nightmare
I walk the alleys and I walk the roads of every street. I hunt the people, your fear and pain fuel me. Your screams are music to my ears. You will not escape me. I know everything about you and your family, your soul will be forever mine. I’m coming.
Umme Ammarah says
I hate my alarm
My body is numb, I tried to move my hands, but feels lifeless like the energy have seep out. Just one finger, come on.
I tried to feel my legs, again the same hollowness.
Help, please
Then my forefinger twitch, my eyes opens.
Alarm is ringing, Mind’s way of awakening…
Atondrila Kabir says
Unforeseen
The doll came in the post without a note. I left it in the trash before going to bed. At the stroke of midnight, I hear a faint rustling sound and a pitiful whine, “Mama.Why did you leave me outside?”
Prachi Shah says
Split
Sara sighed as she stared in the mirror. Her hair was a mess, her clothes were baggy and her skin was pale. “I am a disaster,” she said.
“No, you’re not. Just let me take over,” replied her reflection.
“Okay.”
And Kaitlyn was born
Logan McQueen says
George and the Evil Janitor
At school George heard ̈ Leave or parish.¨ Teacher-bots were attacking students. George fell and Arthur helped him up. The janitor, controlled by a computer chip, was charged by George and Arthur. George tripped the janitor after he hit them knocking the chip free making it shatter. The teachers were freed.
Angela Cantiga says
DON’T MISS MOMMY
His wife has been dead for days now. He doesn’t know how to crack the news to his five year old son. At breakfast, he asked him if he missed his Mommy.
The young boy stared at him in confusion and answered, “Why would I? She’s just beside you, Daddy.”
Prachi Shah says
Revenge
Katie kicked the bloodied Dr. Hapsburg ruthlessly. He had taken away her house, her looks and her family. It was time to pay.
“But I cured you,” he whimpered.
“No, you destroyed me. I was happy in my delusional world,” said the schizophrenic as she stabbed him in the eye.
Damion Abbey says
The thing
Its in the window. An unsettling, Cheshire smile and long, acrylic fingernails. I stagger backwards, frightened as the clown begins to laugh. I hear the sound echoing. Suddenly, it vanishes from the window. I sigh, relieved until I begin to hear footsteps walking towards my room door.
I live alone.
Sofie Carson says
Ghost
You can hear it creeping through the woods, it’s breathing in your ear. It’s watching your every move and listening to every sound it overhears. When you get back safe into your home and you can’t hear it anymore. You know it’s still lurking, watching, and waiting at your door
Jessica Calabrese says
Screaming, sweating, I woke up in a panic, relieved to have it been just a dream. Or was it? Pidder Padder from underneath my bed. Bats released from my closet. Goo oozing from floorboards. What is happening? Pinching myself, wake up,wake up! They are coming. I can wake up.
Thebestwriterever says
No title
Makayla Cammack says
I like it
Jocelin says
Why Me?
I heard a scream I turned around and saw her dead body. I ran without looking back. I heard another scream. I didn’t look back, I just kept running. I heard a faint voice but I couldn’t make out what they were saying. Suddenly I stopped running, everything turned black.
Paul Benavidez says
The Ghostly Pit.
Harry. A Terrible kid. Ran away. Never heard from him. Heck, I’ve never seen him. But I do know he fell in a pit. He fell into someplace with the ghosts, when a ghost, forgot his name, released him. It’s just a faint memory, But I WAS THE GHOST. Sayonara.
Blake Busch says
Spotlight, Moonlight
I left my house in a panic, dashing for the woods, to try and escape the image in my mind. What I thought was just my mind perceiving me, turned into a reality. As I escaped deep into the woods, I stopped to rest when something arrived just behind me.
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
THE CRESCOGRAPH
As the delimbers, harvesters and fellers went into overtime, cutting the huge trees in the forest as easily as a knife cuts through butter; the crescograph kept at the nearby research laboratory went crazy.
In truth, the readings were Mother Earth’s dire warning to humanity, “Prepare for my upcoming wrath.”
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
THE CRIES
Whenever he tries to sleep, the cries keep John awake. They lament the dead soul inside John. They are not of any humans. Rather, they are of the countless dead cows, pigs, sheep and chickens he has slaughtered all these years.
John’s profession is his curse. He is a butcher.
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
PLASTIC WORLD
He had escaped the nuclear holocaust but found himself washed up on an island. A stone plaque told him where he was: Midway Island, in the middle of nowhere. There was not another human soul in sight. But wherever he looked, there was only plastic: bottles, toothbrushes, cigarette lighters etcetera.
nicholas says
The Second Personality
It is a dark night where Jake is going to kill Doug, but Jake is fighting against John his second personality. BOOM!! Jake hits Doug with a metal pipe. Jake drags Doug to the corner, and raises his knife and stops. John says what is this and he runs off.
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
HUNTER HUNTED
Ben ran for his life, through the jungle, unarmed and outnumbered. A troop of Mountain Gorillas was after him, baring their sharp fangs, hankering for his blood. The experiment had gone horribly wrong. The serum had increased their aggression. It had become a virus. The hunter was now the hunted.
Tooni says
Mother Knows Best?
Shivers scurried up my spine as I headed for the door.
PLONK!
My heart sank as the echoing sound accentuated the hollowness of the night. Instinctively, I looked to the left only to see—all bloodied and mangled, yet grinning—
“Mum?” I whispered.
Was that her heart coming for me?
Subhodeep Mukherjee says
HYDROPHOBIA, ALTERED
The sun blazes overhead. I stagger on like a zombie, struggling to hold myself up. I am severely dehydrated.
I …
have to …
find water.
I awake with a jolt.
I get up and go to the washroom. I turn on the tap and find…
…no water coming out.
Bridget C says
Nothing good happens at night
In city of Prairie Village, stood Claire, and Erin. Night grew, the chill breeze made the kids shiver. Claire felt something staring at her, she took a fast turn, someone was there. Erin screeched in the lit road a dark shadowy figure approached them. The horror grew in them both.
Melorra Arthur says
The Cage
I have been avoiding being chosen for years, but it was my turn now. The general unlocked the cage, I ran as fast as I could, but he was faster. He jumped and landed on me. He took out a knife and slit my throat. I woke up. “Ready to die?”
Zakkery castine says
The Dead Body
Five of us sitting by a fire,”All of a sudden”, a clown runs out of the woods with a knife , We ran into this abandoned house. Roof falling in on us. We started running out the house and found a dead body bleeding out in the ground twitching dead.