His Reflection

The Story

He glimpsed his reflection. It turned and ran in fear.

Behind the Story

I’ve always been fascinated by horror stories that are super short. I don’t know who wrote it or when I read it, but one, in particular, stuck with me;

“The last man on Earth heard a knock at the door.”

Even now, this single sentence story gives me the creeps.

Anyway, a friend shared a writing competition on Facebook and when I saw it was to write a horror story in ten words or less, I had to come up with something.

What do you think of micro stories?

Word Categories:

Horror, Short Stories

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There was a squiggle in the garden yestersomething and I noticed it skipping through the squiggloop next to the golden-blue porange herbs and it stood

A Place Within the Dark

Darkness enshrouded her. The kind of dark she could lose her entire sense of self in.

Touched by God

High above the earth, a single passenger on a plane, lost in a storm, confronts the infinite abyss of death.

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