OCTOBER TERROR 2018 Short Story Award – Entry #51 “A Bearer of Burdens” By Michael R Collins
As Jaime stepped out of the shower, his rail thin body dripping, he reached for a towel. The loose metal towel rack jangled as he [Read more…]
As Jaime stepped out of the shower, his rail thin body dripping, he reached for a towel. The loose metal towel rack jangled as he [Read more…]
Want to know what Evelyn’s two biggest fears are? Snakes and stumbling upon a dead body. Weird, right? Maybe not the fear of snakes, because [Read more…]
By the time he arrived at the window the attack had already begun. The afternoon sunlight gave the scene a frighteningly surreal quality, something [Read more…]
When it all finally went horribly wrong, nobody really understood. All her friends, meaning to be kind and sympathetic, only seemed to criticise. “He’s a [Read more…]
Markus cups his hands as far around the enormous tankard in front of him as he can manage and lowers his head towards the brim. [Read more…]
“I’m just a pretty girl who will soon be forgotten.” —Norma Jeane [Read more…]
George took a deep breath, trembled slightly as he held the air in his lungs, then exhaled slowly while relishing the vision of womanhood in [Read more…]
Dearest Julia, I am writing this under considerable mental strain since by tonight I shall be no more. At the end of my ability to [Read more…]
In an otherwise empty cinema, six seats in the front row contained occupants. They weren’t all sitting side by side; there was a vacant chair [Read more…]
CHAPTER ONE I lay on my back and gasped while I struggled to breathe. The stench of the sand dusted ground beneath me filled my [Read more…]
The mountain ash forest through which the adventurers had trekked was tall and majestic, the canopy sheltering them from the power of the sun as [Read more…]
“Why in the hell did you buy that picture, mom? That thing is creepy and it looks like that little girl is suffering.” I asked [Read more…]
This story is written by Toneye Eyenot, administrator of TBM, due to obvious reasons he is not entering the contest but —we wanted to gift [Read more…]
When we listen to scary stories around the campfire we tend to fill in a lot of the gaps ourselves. We have to picture the [Read more…]
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