Stories tagged “Halloween”
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The Gladiator's Keeper
Officer Agostino Rossi crossed the crowded lobby. Tonight of all nights, when he should be walking his kids around the neighborhood asking for candy corn, he still had the gladiator wannabe to deal with. He wished the guy would just give it up and star...
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Strangling Parrots
“What did you say to me?” Maya was angry with me again. No surprise there, really. All I had to do was walk into the room with my iPod playing too loudly and she’d find a reason to scream at me with that painfully shrill voice of hers...
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Autumn
Autumn Teens groaning with books again As leaves come tumbling Children tumbling in piles Hard work ruined, parents grumble While walking goblins and doctors Down the street, begging for one last stop Pumpkins grinning ear to ear. Jackets pulled out, h...
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The Haunted Hoopty of Hoodrat Hell(retro ficlet challenge)
Tyrone Biggum twitched in the dank alley greedily eyeing the burnt stem making the rotation. “I’m tellin’ you SON ! That hoopty was Haunted! It had a devil in it…sumpin’ wasn’t RIGHT !” he shrilled all the while holding in the precious sm...
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Halloween Domination
Sitting here, quivering in excitement. Waiting for the big day. I can barely breath. But I know my time will come. And I will get everything that I want. When I am set free, I’ll be lovingly prepared for my journey and my power will grow. I will...
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Psycopathic sycophants
She dreamt. An enormous spider had spun her into a cocoon. She whipped her body back and forth, fighting her way clear of the silky bonds. Somehow, dreamland crossed into reality. Fighting her way clear of the dream, she immediately realised that somet...
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Halloween Hell
When i was 13 years old i dressed up as a zombie bride and went trick or treating with my friends.We walked around my friends neihborhood, until we reached an eiry lane with fog everywhere. My friends thought it would be a great dare and to see who was...
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... Thinking how wierd it was that I still trick-or-treated
I walked into my History class and glared at the over head projector that was set up and cast a bluish glow on the wall. “Uhg, notes again,” I moaned, sitting next to Amy,“really?” “It’s better than a test!” S...
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The House
The house was a one-story bungalow with drab gray siding and a massive front porch. The lack of ambient light that night lent a dismally foreboding air to the house, which was only intensified by the front porch itself. The furniture looked as if it ha...
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Return of the Pumpkin Lord, episode 1, part 3, chapter 6
The fools! They were so sure of their victory, so sure they had defeated the mighty Pumpkin Lord. Death was merely a setback for a being such as itself. Halloween marked his return to the realm of mortals and with his full strength restored, the night ...
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Trick and Treat
Hers were the same words she spoke every year, neither habit nor ritual, but trained. “Will you accept the guidance of the Master?” she asked, reciting, her voice as empty of inflection as her face of expression. His were words never spoken...
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A.M.U. (Associated Monsters United)
“Welcome, I’m glad you could all be in attendance. Now about this year’s halloween…it’s not good, yes count?” Count Acula, “I am dissapointed with how my people are being portrayed. I mean sparkly emo teenagers...
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The Final Thoughts of a Murdered Infant
I don’t recall when my umbilical was cut; I think it was only a few days ago, when I was born. Not long ago I was safe in the nursery and the only home I had ever known. But now, I am with a stranger being slowly and methodically murdered. I̵...
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The Best of the Worst
It’s funny that when I look back on my childhood, I remember very little on my own. But, the simple waft of a freshly baked apple donut or the seductively simmering smell of apple cider creates short, film like flashes of memories in my mind. Whe...
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Time Is Up
Was it a wrathful ancient god? Some demonic entity? Or had our time simply run out? We’ll never know, now. Not that it makes much of a difference. It was cruel fate that this started the day after Halloween, the fun exhilirating terror of our myr...
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The Horror
An upset stomach woke Jack. Even at his tender age he knew if he went to his mom she would scold him for not listening when she said not to eat all his candy. So he lay in bed toughening it out until morning, like the cowboy he had been. Some time late...
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A Conversation
“I’ve been thinking about leaving,” he told me. His eyes stared into nothingness, straying from reality. his face was coated with filth he hadn’t bothered to clean off in weeks. I could tell he wasn’t well. I felt my heart...