Unwanted Guest, by Amber Averay You know that old saying about house guests? About how they stink and are ugly and taste worse than they look? I can confirm all of the above. It’s not like I go out of my way to learn these things, but if an opportunity presents itself I will seizeContinue reading “Spook-tober 2025, Day #4”
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Spook-tober 2025: Day 3
Twisted Nostalgia Leo Driver 19 years. I have had this toy for 19 years. A simple plush dog that was once $5 that can now be sold for $50 on the internet. A toy that I have loved to death and more. Yet…do I really want to let it go? My friends say I should,Continue reading “Spook-tober 2025: Day 3”
Spook-tober 2025: Day 3
Twisted Nostalgia I watched as the flames licked the dry timbers of what used to be my childhood home. My stomach filled with sadness, not for the loss of the building, but for the fact that it had taken so long to happen. I was forever jumping at shadows full of fear and shame. NoContinue reading “Spook-tober 2025: Day 3”
Spook-tober 2025, Day #3
Twisted Nostalgia, by Amber Averay Why is it that the more we have, the unhappier we are? Is it the build up of pressure that comes with every achievement reached? The need to have more, to push ourselves harder, to never accept what we have as the best for us? I see people who buyContinue reading “Spook-tober 2025, Day #3”
Spook-tober 2025: Day 2
Cheesy I got to my office before the sun was even up. I just knew today was the day some dame would sashay through my door needing my help with some heavy problem. The large leather chair creaked under my weight as the sun began to brighten the room. The clock was tick…tick…ticking behind me,Continue reading “Spook-tober 2025: Day 2”
Spook-tober 2025: Day 2
Cheesy Leo Driver SEPTEMBER 28th, 2023 I love, love, LOVE slasher films! Especially from the 80s! They’re just so goofy and bloody that it just inspires me! I’m gonna be my own slasher protagonist! Yes! I am going to try my hand at movie making! It can’t be that hard, right? I just gotta writeContinue reading “Spook-tober 2025: Day 2”
Spook-tober 2025, Day #2
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”
Spook-tober 2025: Day 1
Dark and Stormy Night A violent storm raged outside for the third night in a row. The trees were whipping back and forth ravaged by the gale, and the moon peeked through the clouds for mere moments before being whisked away from sight once more behind leaden clouds. Wren wrenched the curtains tight against theContinue reading “Spook-tober 2025: Day 1”
Spook-tober 2025: Day 1
Dark and Stormy Night Leo Driver “It was a Dark and Stormy Night… Ah, phoey! I don’t know what to do with that! It’s so cliche! I need somethibg better than the most overused line in the history of writing, I really do! But, what COULD I do? Rewrite it to sound better? Edgier? UGH!Continue reading “Spook-tober 2025: Day 1”
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”
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