During the month of October - usually my favorite time of the year - I put a challenge to myself with some awesome support from my friend Meredith. The challenge for us both was to write 2-sentence horror stories, one a day for the entire month. Meredith is AMAZING and had such vivid stories. Here are my stories.
10/1/2014
The flame flickered and struggled briefly before dying. Her shallow breaths were soon to follow.
10/2/2014
He shrugged his shoulders as he responded to her query,
“because you were beautiful and I needed to know what your heart felt like.” Barely
a moan when the blade pierced her side.
10/3/2014
It was comforting to feel his embrace, like a phantom limb,
like it was never taken from her. His hot breath tickled her ear as she kissed
his tombstone.
10/4/2014
As the sun rose high into the sky, Charlie could feel the
maggots squirming in his body. There was
no waking up this time.
10/5/2014
She thought he was nice and handsome and rugged. Cutting his
face off just reveled him to be like every other man.
10/6/2014
Something held her just below the crashing waves. It
whispered, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
10/7/2014
Coldness wrapped around her, enveloped her. It wasn’t the
air that brought the chill to her spine but his cold skull in her hands.
10/8/2014
Breathless they stopped running for one a second, one moment
and they heard it laughing. Laughing like it already won.
10/9/2014
He pulled that long drag from his cigarette like it had a
better answer.
“See, the problem is you’re going to die and I’m going to
enjoy it.”
10/10/2014
I just wanted to go out, you know, after the break up and
have a good time. I’ve been here for days, blind, numb all I hear are chains
dragging on the floor.
10/11/2014
The laughter, the all consuming laughter, ricocheted off the
walls and rained on me like the blood of my friend being slaughtered, right
next to me. Best Friends Forever.
10/12/2014
“You’re not hard to figure out,” she said. “Your blood’s red
like everyone else’s.”
10/13/2014
He was gasping, clawing trying to break free when he
realized he was never going to get out. With one final breath he screamed, but
no one could hear him six feet under.
10/14/2014
Pain was all he could feel before he opened his eyes to the
carnage of the wreck. She stood over him, “I told you not to try to leave me.”
10/15/2014
There was something clawing at her inside, she dismissed it
as guilt. The agony blossomed until she heard the voices.
10/16/2014
Fingers blistered long before he stopped digging up the
grave. The coffin was simple and intact and her voice came from it clear as a
bell.
10/17/2014
It wasn’t the blood Vanessa needed. It was the pain.
10/18/2014
“Beg for your life,” he said with a smirk. She flashed her
pearly whites as she brought her blade up to the hopeful rapists crotch, “No,
you beg for yours.”
10/19/2014
There are monsters in the light. They just take human form.
10/20/2014
Sara’s fingers gracefully touched the charm on her neck. For Protection, she thought as she
charged into the swirl of demons, mist, fire and brimstone.
10/21/2014
He stood there, contemplating, for the briefest moment then
The Grin possessed his face. They both knew no one was getting out alive.
10/22/2014
Deep down to her bones she could feel the change. Her marrow
cried for more death.
10/23/2014
“I thought you’d never come,” he said with a whisper of
surprise. “I’ve come to kill you with all I have within me,” she said with a
smile.
10/24/2014
It was a bloodbath. She arranged it 6 months in advance and
only virgin blood would suffice.
10/25/2014
He clawed at the maggots he felt burrowing in his guts.
Screaming he slashed open his belly and cried when there were no maggots to be
found.
10/26/2014
She was long dead, gone and buried but she sat in her chair,
in his house as though she had never left. He kneeled before her, put his head
on her lap and then he felt the bite.
10/27/2014
Walking down the street every person he bumped into took a
little bit of him. In the end, all that was left was bits of his heart.
10/28/2014
The blood poured out much faster now she felt like a child
trying to hold in such an unstoppable force. “It’ll be okay,” she purred but
her eyes flashed a smile.
10/29/2014
The thing to remember
is not who she was but what she became, he thought, as he used her skin as
a canvas.
10/30/2014
Moons rise and set on such a repetitive cycle. It only makes
sense that I would feel such a repetitive cycle to cut you little by little
until you stop bleeding.
10/31/2014
Dressed in only the most revealing of Halloween costumes, drunk off overly sweet mass-produced shots, Emily stumbled on the walk alone back to her apartment. When he grabbed her ankle, she didn’t even notice the fall.
Dressed in only the most revealing of Halloween costumes, drunk off overly sweet mass-produced shots, Emily stumbled on the walk alone back to her apartment. When he grabbed her ankle, she didn’t even notice the fall.
