Cheesy, by Amber Averay My cat has real cat-titude. While purring his heart out and relishing all the pats I could manage without any limbs falling off due to exhaustion, I cooed lovingly, ‘You’re so beautiful. You’re lovely. You put the “purr” in “purr-fect”.’ Well, the little shit froze, looked at me with such baldContinue reading “Spook-tober 2025, Day #2”
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Spook-tober 2025, Day #1
Dark and Stormy Night, by Amber Averay The windows rattle with each blast of thunder, and I jump like a scared little child. The lightning that flickers outside leaks around the curtains, splashing the darkened room in sprays of silver and white. I’ve hated storms since…well, since I was a little child. It was aContinue reading “Spook-tober 2025, Day #1”
Spook-tober 2024
Day #31 – by Amber Averay (continued from Day #30): Mocking laughter swirled about me, pressing in from every direction. The trees seemed to close in, the dirt path shrinking into a narrow ribbon that barely seemed wider than a tightrope. Dark clouds billowed over the horizon, slinking through the woods, filling the sky withContinue reading “Spook-tober 2024”
Spook-tober 2024
Day #29 – by Amber Averay (continued from Day #28): The bruised fog chased me, dogging my every faltering step, crawling about my ankles and licking up my calves. It toyed with me, trying to catch my feet, trip me up, send me sprawling to the ground. I’d fallen enough – in more ways thanContinue reading “Spook-tober 2024”
Spook-tober 2024
Day #27 – by Amber Averay (continued from Day #26): Legs pumping, feet stumbling over tufts of dry grass and ropey roots shooting through the earth, I questioned everything. Was this real? Could I really be racing along a dirt track, sucking fresh air into my lungs, or was I still back there, captive inContinue reading “Spook-tober 2024”
Spook-tober 2024
Day #25 – Amber (continued from Day #24): Floating, drifting, nestled in warmth and cocooned in the comforting scent of woodsmoke and earth, I was moving slowly, smoothly, a soothing beat throbbing in my ear. Tired, I was so tired, my eyelids heavy as if weighted down with bags of sand. The sour dryness ofContinue reading “Spook-tober 2024”
Spook-tober 2024
Day #23 – Amber (continued from Day #22): It was an odd sensation of deja-vu bleeding into new adrenaline-fuelled victory. I’d believed that I’d been running before; now, I truly was. But it wasn’t as sleek, as effortlessly athletic, as when I only imagined my desperate flight. Now I stumbled over my own feet, breathContinue reading “Spook-tober 2024”
Spook-tober 2024
Day #21 – by Amber Averay (continued from Day #20): My feet flew over the floor, my legs pumping like I was a sprinter bolting through the race of my life. The door swished shut behind me, but by the time the sound registered I was careening down another corridor and almost rebounding off theContinue reading “Spook-tober 2024”
Spook-tober 2024
Day #19 – by Amber Averay (continued from Day #18): Why did I have to be so nosy? So reckless? So… ‘Hey!’ I snapped, indignation and outrage sizzling through me as his taunt registered. ‘I am not gullible!’ The voice sniggered. ‘Then what would you call it? Perhaps you would prefer “naïve”? “Innocent”? “Stupid”?’ ‘There’sContinue reading “Spook-tober 2024”
Spook-tober 2024
Day #17 – by Amber Averay (continued from Day #16): ‘And don’t you know it’s rude to sneak up on people?’ I snapped, my heart thundering in my chest while my ears continued to ring with the deafening clatter of the weapon falling to the floor. My eyes darted around the room, skating from cornerContinue reading “Spook-tober 2024”
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