Tag: 5 Minutes Of Horror

  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Similar Senses – A Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Similar Senses – A Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2021

    “D-Did you s-see it?” Salomon stammers as he looks back over to Debbie with wide wild eyes before looking back over to the doorway. “I-I-It’s t-t-there!” he adds as he points to the floorboards then looks back at Debbie once more.

    She looks at him and smiles nervously as she shakes her head. “N-No, I don’t see anything, because nothings there.”

    He leaps to his feet and thrusts his hands towards the vacant space before the doorway, glaring at her with a dumbfounded look upon his face. “Are you telling me you didn’t see t-t-that thing j-j-just then? I-It was r-right THERE, as plain a-as day!”

    She shrugs her shoulders and twists her face as she squeezes her left eye closed. “Nope, sorry I didn’t see a thing, because nothing was there.”

    He clenches his teeth and squeezes his hands into tightly bound fists, “BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!” he bellows as his face turns a bright shade of red seconds before he starts stamping his feet loudly into the floorboards. “HOW COULD YOU NOT FUCKING SEE IT! HOW COULD YOU NOT FUCKING NOTICE! IT WAS RIGHT FUCKING THERE!”

    She holds her hands up in a semi defensive position, “Sal please, take a FUCKING chill pill dude. Whatever you saw, you were the only one to see it. So why don’t you sit the FUCK back down, and take a few moments to gather yourself, before I have to take matters into my own hand and slap some sense back into that thick head of yours!” she says sternly, digging her eyes into his. Seconds spawn into minutes as they stand locked in their interwoven contest, until Salomon eventually tears his eyes away, and casts a wayward glance towards the empty floorboards, before tossing himself back into his seat, gruffly crossing his arms across his chest as he does.

    “Thank you,” she says with a soft smile.

    “Whatever,” he quips back quickly.

    “Is this how you’re going to be now? Because I’m still happy to give you a slap if you want one?”

    “Isn’t it enough I SAT FUCKING DOWN? What do you want from me now? Do you want me to bow and curtsy? IS THAT IT!” he roars with a renewed vigour as he launches himself from his seat once again.

    She puckers her lips up and lets out a stuttered sigh. “This is about your little imaginary friend, isn’t it?”

    He stares at her with ever growing wide eyes while a tremor of uncontainable anger surges through him. “YES!” he roars.

    “Fine,” she says as she throws her hands in the air, and stares at him intently.

    For several seconds they sit in silence before he shrugs his shoulders and holds out his hands in confusion. “Fine what?”

    She rolls her eyes in their sockets and sighs loudly once again. “I mean FINE, tell me about your BLOODY imaginary friend. But,” she says as she thrusts a pointing finger at him. “Once you tell me, you SHUT the FUCK up about it, Understood?”

    His right eye twitches, and he sucks his cheeks in as he casts one final glance towards the doorway. “DONE!” he says with a nod of his head, as he holds out his hand to shake.

    “Get that out of my face, and just tell me about your invisible mate!”

    Salomon looks at his open hand, then wipes it down his front and awkwardly kneads the back of his neck. “I-It was right there, j-just sitting there watching us like some little voyeur. A-At first I-I didn’t know it was there, b-but then I saw it move in the corner of my eye. W-When I looked towards it, without looking, that’s when I saw it. B-But when I really looked, like REALLY looked, it wasn’t there, and that’s when I called out to you.” he says as he turns to the now pale Debbie. Beads of sweat pour from her brow, and as she stares at him with wide eyes, she awkwardly motions to her right, towards the rooms corner.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Trigger Finger – A Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Trigger Finger – A Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2021

    The ball falls awkwardly from his hand and hits the ground with several loud, unmissable clangs and bangs, bringing all eyes upon the small group. At first they all stare without recognition of what they are staring at, but as they slowly process the sounds made by the falling ball, things form, things that fumble and tingle within their decaying minds, minds that start to build a shape of recognition, a recognition that explodes into fact as they surge forward as one towards them.

    Corey casts a final fleeting glance towards Sally and Paul as he is swallowed whole by the horde. Without thought or focus, without care or comprehension, Sally lets out a stuttered cry of terror as the horde tear Corey limb from limb, feasting on him like a pack of wild animals. Then once more they stop in their very tracks, and all eyes shoot across the school ground, across the overgrown and unpopulated car park towards where she crouches. As their silence cuts the air like a butcher’s knife would a carcass, tears cascade down her cheeks as the sea of dead eyes stare at the petrified Sally while their diluted, watery brains try to comprehend what she is.

    She screams in fright as Paul grips her by her jacket collar and tosses her behind him as he proudly steps forward, taking the stance of a rock and roll god who is in the mists of playing a powerful solo, raising his gatling gun towards the frozen field of decaying humanoids like it was his guitar. Then with a smarmy smile he gives Sally a wink and tightens his finger around the trigger, only to find nothing happening. He squeezes the trigger again and again without a result, as the horde begin to charge forward.

    “LEAVE IT!” Sally screams as she grabs him by the arm, and tries to drag him away, but he twists and turns in all manner of direction, eventually freeing himself of her grip.

    “Go, we don’t both have to die!” he says with a clumsily displayed smile.

    “P-Please,” she sobs softly.

    “GO!” he screams, desperation written over every square inch of his face as he shakes the gun around violently, hoping to somehow knock some semblance of sense into the idled weapon. He lets out a primeval scream, as he stares at the weapon with a panicked disbelief, as the horde draw ever closer. Suddenly his brow rises and the smile that had left his lips some moments ago, returns as he flips a switch.

    “It was the fucking safety,” he says jovially as he turns towards the sea of crazed faces as they finally descend upon him, just as he tightens his fingers around the trigger once more. Like Moses parting the red sea, the gatling gun rips through the horde, but it is all too late, as he is engulfed by a thousand hands or more ripping at his flesh.

    Sally clutches herself tightly as she looks down the hill, watching as the scavengers that have inherited this world we once called our home, fight over pieces of those she called family.

    ***

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    Before you lies a piece of a puzzle far grander than you could ever know or imagine. For scrawled in blood upon the pages hidden within the above tome is stories twisted thirty-one in all, soaked in the embers of my insanity. Five minutes to glimpse inside the eyes of someone new, five minutes to answer, five minutes to sin, five minutes to do almost anything. A god, a demon, a harlot, a whore. A fascist, a killer, a sinner, a door. Death and division, humanity askew. A belfry of bats, a sea of black cats, so many moments out there to see, so many things you could see with me. So take a seat beside me and call it voodoo, because now you ride with me too…

     

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Weathered Heather – A Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Weathered Heather – A Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2021

    “I can’t believe that’s what it truly is, I mean, if they’re real what else is?” he asks as he turns back and looks at the others in a perplexed manner.

    “Daddy said your imagination is only as strong as your belief, and if you believe enough, anything is possible.”

    Patrick rolls his eyes and sighs loudly. “Clare, don’t take this the wrong way, but your Daddy is a complete moron, and he’d say anything to keep you asking too many questions.”

    “W-W-What does that mean?” she cries as she turns to her father with wide doughy dog eyes.

    He casts a wayward glance over to Patrick, and sneers. “Yeah, little brother, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?”

    Patrick puts his hands in the air and smiles nervously. “Calm the FUCK down bro, I-I, I was just pulling your leg is all.” he says as he sheepishly turns back to Clare. “I was joking honey, your dad, your dad is one of the smartest men I know, and that’s why I like to joke about him every now and then, because it makes me feel smarter,” he says with a soft smile, as he throws his brother a quick glance and winks at him sarcastically.

    “Look, can we stop trying to win that coveted retarted family of the year award, and focus on the real problem at hand!” Selena spits from the doorway.

    “Why don’t you get over here and say that, instead of standing in the doorway like some loser with no friends,” Patrick says proudly.

    “I’d rather have no friends and be alive, than be you and dead.”

    “Ouch, I see your wife still dislikes me.”

    “No one likes you Patrick, it’s why I moved halfway around the world after mum and dad died, but you FUCKING followed me here, didn’t you?”

    “SHIT STANLEY! I suddenly feel like this has turned into a everyone hates Patrick party, and I’m the guest of honour who wasn’t invited!”

    “I don’t hate you Uncle Patrick, you’re the most bestest uncle in the whole entire world,” Clare says with a beaming smile across her face as she tugs on his shirt corner.

    He smiles softly and gives her a wink. “Thanks muffin top, I knew I could count on you, even if I am your only uncle.”

    “ARE WE DONE!” Selena bellows from the doorway once more. “ARE WE ALL HAPPY AND CONTENT NOW?”

    “I don’t know, are there blow jobs later on?”

    “What the FUCK?” Stanley seethes as he guides Clare out of the way and shapes himself up to his brother.

    “Hey big guy calm down, I’m only asking for a friend, honestly!” he says as he gives Stanley a wink while a sly smile draws itself across his face. Without hesitation Stanley drives a well-placed punch into Patrick’s kidney, sending him stumbling across the room.

    “GIVE ME ONE MORE REASON! JUST ONE AND I’LL GIVE YOU THAT BEATING I ALWAYS PROMISED YOU!” Stanley growls.

    “FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP FIGHTING AND LOOK AT THE WALL! SOMETHINGS MOVING!” Selena screams, as everyone’s attention turns back to the crudely constructed nest that sits up in the topmost corner of the wall.

    Clare’s eyes widen and a huge smile adorns her face. “SEE! SEE! I TOLD YOU IT WAS WHERE HEATHER LIVED!” she cries as the small toylike Christmas elf craws out of the hole and stares down at the group, then bares rows of razor-sharp teeth and leaps towards them, followed by several hundred smaller ones that crawl out of the nest behind her.

    ***

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    Before you lies a piece of a puzzle far grander than you could ever know or imagine. For scrawled in blood upon the pages hidden within the above tome is stories twisted thirty-one in all, soaked in the embers of my insanity. Five minutes to glimpse inside the eyes of someone new, five minutes to answer, five minutes to sin, five minutes to do almost anything. A god, a demon, a harlot, a whore. A fascist, a killer, a sinner, a door. Death and division, humanity askew. A belfry of bats, a sea of black cats, so many moments out there to see, so many things you could see with me. So take a seat beside me and call it voodoo, because now you ride with me too…

     

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Salvation Written Backwards – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Salvation Written Backwards – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    “Concur, a word that means to agree with or equal,” Andrew announces proudly as he stands spiffingly up, his head wobbling about as if he was a bobble headed statue and a smile that draws itself across his lips like a bolt of lightning.

    “And what do you concur with, cunt?” William snarls as he takes a bite from the leg of raw mutton he waves around like a stick.

    Andrew straightens up and pulls his head back with pensive inquisition.

    “I-I-I, I don’t understand,” Andrew asks with a strained smile across his withered lips.

    William draws back a stoic breath and laughs foolhardily, slapping his leg with delight before tearing more flesh from the lambs severed leg. He chews loudly, with a bravado earned through blood, sweat and fear.

    “Satisfaction ain’t nothing to not understand child, it’s a gift of expectations. I’ve killed many, more of I’d truly taken the time, and in all the lives I’ve owned,” he snarls as he takes another mouthful of flesh and tears it from the bone. “I’ve made sure they understand why we’re both here, you and me,” he says gesturing to himself and then to Andrew. “So save the lies and fallacies, for tonight we fuck, and tomorrow one dies.”

    “F-F-Fuck?” Andrew stammers nervously as his eyes try to lock with those of William’s many servants, but they all look away before he can.

    “I mean what I mean,” William says as he throws back his robe to reveal a throbbing erection. “You do me, and then I’ll do you, or vice versa, it matters little who starts and who finishes.”

    “B-B-But, I-I-I-I’m not gay.”

    William laughs loudly, and slaps his leg once more. “Nor am I, but for tonight, for the importance of all things being fair, we will be whatever the other requires, and I require my throbbing cock to be drained of all its seed. If you cannot bring yourself to satisfy the carnal desires of this mortal flesh, you should just throw yourself onto my sword, and allow my pleasure to become yours,” he slurs sultry as he vigorously strokes his engorged penis.

    Andrew’s lips quiver as his eyes grow, and the outline of an ever hardening shape makes itself known in his pants. He looks into William’s eyes as his pace gains momentum, then quickly he is on him, slobbering over his pulsating cock. William grabs Andrew’s head and thrusts it down over his hardness, holding him tightly as he tries valiantly to free himself of his hold, with desperation he tries to bite down upon William, only for him to receive several numbing blows to the side of his skull.

    William rides Andrew harder and faster, picking up his pace while the world violently spins out of control for Andrew as he is struck again and again. Finally William pulls himself from Andrew’s mouth and vigorously jerks himself into completion, emptying his seed across Andrew’s pale motionless face.

    With a exhausted breath William falls back into his throne, and smiles proudly.

    “A fool will sell his soul, while the smart man will always empty his seed,” he scoffs proudly, as he gestures for Andrew’s remains be taken away.  

    ***

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    Before you lies a piece of a puzzle far grander than you could ever know or imagine. For scrawled in blood upon the pages hidden within the above tome is stories twisted thirty-one in all, soaked in the embers of my insanity. Five minutes to glimpse inside the eyes of someone new, five minutes to answer, five minutes to sin, five minutes to do almost anything. A god, a demon, a harlot, a whore. A fascist, a killer, a sinner, a door. Death and division, humanity askew. A belfry of bats, a sea of black cats, so many moments out there to see, so many things you could see with me. So take a seat beside me and call it voodoo, because now you ride with me too…

     

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Extracurricular Digestion – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Extracurricular Digestion – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    “Wisdom isn’t just a word children, it is also a way of life. Allowing yourself to be open to wisdom, allows the fortunes of tomorrow to be built upon the journeys of yesterday, and only then, in those moments can you fully appreciate the true aspects of wisdom and it’s touch,” Gunya says as he looks carefully into the eyes of each of his students before he bring his gaze back to the withering plant that lies on the ground.

    A frown draws itself across his lips as his eyes well up with emotions. “This is a clandestine moment, for words and faith have never meant more than they do now. This plant, this beautiful golden plant is dying because of the failures of yesterday, and in those futile failures come life lessons. Lessons that will show you what errors have been made, and how today can still save yesterday and tomorrow, how we can rise up and accomplish wonders while fighting diseases that have become burrowed in all that we are,” he says with energetic wonder as he looks up towards the crowd of eyes that stare at him still.

    “So tell me, what has happened, what stifling desertion have we placed upon our withered plant,” he says as he slaps his hands together. A flurry box hands shoot into the air and he smiles softly. “Peter,” he says as he points a bony finger at one of the only students without their hand up.

    Fergus looks around awkwardly before casting a nervous towards Gunya, he wets his quickly drying lips before blinking erratically as his vision focuses in and out.

    “Are you with us Mister Wilson?”

    Peter blinks several more times without answer, then opens his mouth and vomits a thick stream of congealed mucus over the edge of his desk and to the floor before him. He sits there dumbfounded, as does the rest of the room.

    “Once again we have before us causality at its best. Just like our little friend here the plant that was not cared for, the plant that was not watered, Mister Wilson has gotten himself intertwined into a mess that even he cannot dig himself out of, for foul play has already found it’s way too him, but to understand you must first be made aware. Mister Wilson, do you wish to divulge any impertinent information to the class so we can assist in identifying and if given the right circumstances, reverse the adverse effects created by the toxic cocktail you have ingested due to your extracurricular activities?” Gunya asks with a wicked grin sewn across his lips.

    Peter looks around the room once again, as his stomach swims in a sea of aggressive pulsations. He looks weary eyed at Gunya again as his mouth twitches and his brow furrows. “I-I-I-I…” he grips his stomach and tries to stop the explosion as it bursts up from his stomach and leaps from his mouth, once again spraying his desk and the floor before him. When Peter looks up, he stares into Gunya’s menacing grin as he places a pair of protective glasses on and strides commandingly over to him.

    He looks down at the bile and his grin broadens, then looks back up into Peter’s eyes. “Do you see the blood in your vomit? Can you feel the acid eat away at your insides?” he hisses as his eyes widen with terror. “Maybe next time you’ll check whose wife your cock fucks!”

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Twice Is A Charm – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Twice Is A Charm – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    “I CANT FUCKING BELIEVE THIS!” Marcus bellows, throwing his arms into the air as he launches himself to his feet. “DO YOU EVEN CARE ABOUT THE EFFECT THIS STUPID STUNT OF YOURS HAS CAUSED?”

    Carl shrugs his shoulders as he tilts his head to the side. “Sorta.”

    Marcus slaps him around the head with a blink and you’d miss it slap that echoes around the room.

    “What the FUCK was that for?” Carl cries as he grips his head tightly.

    “That was nothing but a starter, and if you don’t UNDERSTAND why you got it, you might need a couple more!” he spits as he raises his hand again.

    “OKAY! OKAY!” Carl screams as he holds his hands before him in a pathetic display of self-defence. “I get it okay, I GET IT! We did the wrong thing, and we acted like selfish little children! We didn’t think or even care about the ramifications our actions would have on the feelings of those around us, and I’m deeply sorry for the pain it caused to you.”

    Marcus stares down at him with hate filled eyes, his hand still held high ready to strike. “AND?” he growls.

    “A-A-And, I’ll pay yo…” he doesn’t get to finish as Marcus strikes him again.

    “The KIDS Carl, I’m TALKING about your FUCKING kids! The ones you left heartbroken and orphaned on our doorstep when you two FAKED your FUCKING deaths! Do you even remember THEM!” he snarls as he strikes him several more times before standing over the sobbing Carl, letting out several frustrated breaths before slapping him one last time.

    “OKAY YOU’VE MADE YOUR POINT! YOU’VE MADE YOUR POINT!” he cries loudly as he pushes Marcus away.

    “My point is far from being made you little PRICK!” Marcus seethes. “I had it all, a life lived by my rules, a sexy woman who put out, cash to spend whoever I wanted anything, the whole FUCKING shebang, and then YOU up and died, leaving me and Karen to care for your kids. Do you know how long it took her to stop putting out and leave me? Three FUCKING day! THREE FUCKING DAYS!”

    “LOOK IM SOERY OKAY! IM SORRY!”

    “You ain’t FUCKING sorry! You ain’t sorry one little bit. Why don’t you just stop lying, and tell me the real reason you’re here?”

    “I-I-I-I, I told you b-before, I-I’ve come home. I’ve come home to b-be a dad again, t-t…”

    “BULLSHIT!”

    “I-I, I swear to whatever you want me to swear to, I’m back for good, a-a-and I wanna make up for everything, t-t-to be a good dad, t…”

    Marcus grabs Carl by the collar and pulls him to his feet and trusts him away, sending him careering into the wall. “FUCK YOU CARL! FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON! YOU AIN’T NO DAD, YOU NEVER HAVE BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE, I’M THEIR DAD, AND YOU AIN’T GETTING NOWHERE NEAR THEM, NOT NOW, NOT EVER!”

    Carl snarls, and grins broadly. “They’re my kids, and I’m gonna take them one way or another, and ain’t nothing you can do about it, brother. So tell me now, how the FUCK are you gonna stop me?”

    Marcus smiles wryly, “I don’t need to stop you, because you’re already dead, I’ll just mask sure you stay that way.”

    “W-W-What the fuck, y-y-you wouldn’t dare?” Carl says as the blood drains from his cheeks as Marcus raises a revolver.

    “It’s crazy what a dad will do to protect his kids,” Marcus says as he fires.

    ***

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    Before you lies a piece of a puzzle far grander than you could ever know or imagine. For scrawled in blood upon the pages hidden within the above tome is stories twisted thirty-one in all, soaked in the embers of my insanity. Five minutes to glimpse inside the eyes of someone new, five minutes to answer, five minutes to sin, five minutes to do almost anything. A god, a demon, a harlot, a whore. A fascist, a killer, a sinner, a door. Death and division, humanity askew. A belfry of bats, a sea of black cats, so many moments out there to see, so many things you could see with me. So take a seat beside me and call it voodoo, because now you ride with me too…

     

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Lying Truths – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Lying Truths – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    Blake drops to his knees and lets out a stuttered sigh of exhaustion. He casts a wandering glance towards Sydney’s motionless form, allowing his eyes to follow the trail of blood as it runs down the uneven concrete floor, and slowly forms a puddle in the corner. His heart skips momentarily as the thrusting engines of cars as they make their way towards him can be heard in the distance, and he knows now through overwhelming desires that he must fabricate his own reflection of the truth, as no one else will believe him.

    “They m-might,” a voice says, as he stares back at Sydney with wide open eyes filled with fear, as she sits cross legged before him with a demented smile upon her face.

    “I-I-Is this p-part real?” he stammers nervously.

    “What is real anymore?”

    “S-S-Something has t-to be!”

    “Then decided which truth to choose!”

    “I-I-I, I CAN’T KEEP LYING!” he screams.

    She tilts her head as the demented smile cascades into a crude grin with her rotting teeth freely displayed. “Once you decided what the truth is you will no longer be lying, and then in that choice you will be free of anymore decisions for the pathway once made only require actions to be followed.”

    “B-B-But, I have no co-control over what others see as the truth, and they will know.”

    She laughs, “The truth is what we make, and they’ll know nothing more than what you tell them, for you are the only one.”

    “W-W-W-What about y-you?”

    He smile grows wider, as it tears the flesh of her cheeks apart. “I am of no danger to you, for WE are partners, you and I.”

    “P-P-Partners?”

    “Why else would I let you live? Why else would I offer you my protection?” she awkwardly gets to her feet and jerkily makes her way over to him, holding her hand out for him to take.

    He nervously looks up at her as the cars outside come to a screeching halt. “H-H-How can I t-trust you?”

    She laughs loudly as the car doors slam and unintelligible yelling filter into the room , “You can’t, but what choice do you have?”

    “I-I-I, I can’t.” he seethes with exhausted breath as he drops his head to the ground.

    “Then prepare to die! For that will be the case when they storm their way into this room, and see what you have done to their children!”

    “I-I’ll t-tell them the t-truth a-and they’ll u-understand, t-they’ll see h-how sick I am. T-They’ll help me.”he sobs desperately.

    “They won’t help YOU! They won’t see YOU! All they’ll see is a murderer, one they’ll know will escape punishment, and in that moment of doubt, I’ll offer them a solution,” she purrs as Blake looks up at her in terror.

    “Y-You would b-betray m-me like t-that?”

    Her smile tears further through her flesh as the buildings doors are knocked in and the sound of men charging into the building echo throughout the room. “He who throws the first stone, cannot throw the last,” she sings, extending her hand once again. “Now sweet prince, take my hand and lay your trust in me.”

    “P-Please,” he stammers as the rooms door explodes inward and a swam of armed officers spill in.

    “F-F-Fuck,” one of the officers stutter at the bloody site that greets them. He looks desperately around the room, meeting each of their wild glares with his own.

    “P-P-Please, you have t-to understand w-what h-h-happened. Y-Y-You h…” its then that his words get stuck in his throat, as he notices one of the officers listening intently to someone unseen. “P-P-P-PLEASE, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND!” he screams as he scrambles to his feet, only for gunfire to knock him back down.

    He sucks in desperate breath after desperate breath, as an unrelenting pain washes over him in wave after wave.

    ***

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    Before you lies a piece of a puzzle far grander than you could ever know or imagine. For scrawled in blood upon the pages hidden within the above tome is stories twisted thirty-one in all, soaked in the embers of my insanity. Five minutes to glimpse inside the eyes of someone new, five minutes to answer, five minutes to sin, five minutes to do almost anything. A god, a demon, a harlot, a whore. A fascist, a killer, a sinner, a door. Death and division, humanity askew. A belfry of bats, a sea of black cats, so many moments out there to see, so many things you could see with me. So take a seat beside me and call it voodoo, because now you ride with me too…

     

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Nightmares Covered In Fondant – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Nightmares Covered In Fondant – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    He places the phone on the bedside table and pushes his head into the pillow, sinking into it as if it was fluffy sand. For several seconds his eyelids flicker erratically before gently falling shut, and his world is swallowed into darkness. A sea of soft comfortable cushions engulf him while the rhythmic sounds of his wife snoring next to him drowns out the melodic music playing from the television that hangs perilously above the foot of the bed.

    Seconds, minutes, and hours mix in a spider-web like blender, drawing him further into a mix of sights seen and unseen. Then with a panicked startle, he leaps up in spot, sweat pouring from him in buckets. His heart pumps vigorously as he gasps desperately for breath after breath, while his wife continues to snore loudly.

    He looks around the room with wide awake eyes, searching the darkness for a sign that does not come.

    “H-H-Hello?” he stammers nervously, then waits unmoving. As minutes quickly pile up before him with no result, he grits his teeth and squeezes his lips together.

    “I-I-I, I know someone’s there, s-s-so STOP p-playing around!” he spits out as he leaps from his bed.

    A gentle clapping comes from the darkest corner of the room as he can make out the outline of a shrouded figure.

    “W-W-Who a-are YOU?”

    “Does it matter either way, the fact that we can see each other is all as need to know, for that is the thing of dreams.”

    “BULLSHIT!” he snarls sharply. “YOU TELL ME WHO THE FUCK YOU ARE, AND WHAT THE FUCKING HELL YOU WANT FROM ME NOW!”

    “Touchy aren’t we.”

    “Wouldn’t you be, if you woke up and found some stranger in you’re home?”

    “How can you be sure that I am the visitor and not you?”

    He laughs softly. “Seriously, are you gonna actually try and convince me that I’m the one shoes dead here?”

    “Of course not my friend, I’d never disrespect your journey over mine with lies just for the sake of manipulation, not when reality can do such much more than my simple side step can.”

    “What the FUCK does that mean?” he hisses through tightly clenched teeth.

    “It means exactly what it was meant to mean Matty! Judge not, or you will be judged. Anyway I could manipulate any and all to achieve my ends, but why do something for fun, when the magic of today can achieve all that and more,” he sniggers as the figure leans from out of the darkness, revealing his face to be empty. Matty takes a

     succession of quick breaths as a demented grin slowly draws itself across the blank face.

    “W-W-What’s s-so sp-special abo…” his nervous words find themselves caught in his throat as visions of calendar’s fill the air before him while the eerie voice cackles like a maniac.

    Matt’s eyes shoot open and he launches himself up, looking around the room in a heightened panic. As his heart thumps furiously in his chest, his lungs pump vigorously, ejecting breath after wasted breath while he desperately gasps for there replacement. As the morning rays of the sun cut through the rooms darkness like a knife, his breaths slow to a slow and steady rhythms, which in turn cools the fires of his heart and he collapses back, and stares with widening eyes into the long dead eyes of his lover, and before he can scream her decaying hand covers him mouth and punches him nose.

    He kicks and heaves, trying desperately to free himself from her long dead clutches, but her grip is too strong and he begins to feel his lungs burning as they call for air. He reaches out and grabs at his sleeping wife who thrusts his hands away, mumbling something incoherent at him before turning away and covering her head with the blanket.

    He looks back up into her empty eyes, while tears stream down his as the darkness slowly creeps in, and once again he hears the cackling laugh of his strange visitor.

    “Judge not, for thee will be judged yourself Matty me old mate!”

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – The Impairment Deal – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – The Impairment Deal – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    Luke looks down at the paper and awkwardly plays with the pen as he reads the words once again before looking back up at Damien with a nervous expression across his face.

    “What is it that trouble you?” Damien asks as he smiles and furrows his brow with concern. “Tell me and I will ease your quandary.”

    Luke bits his bottom lip as the words try to form inside his mind, but all he manages to do is drop the pen to the floor in spectacular fashion.

    Damien’s smile broadens and he laughs softly, “It is okay to be frightened, not everyone gets this experience, and those that have tread with the same trepidation you are now tasked with. So, ask away before you don’t have the opportunity to do so again.”

    Luke lets out a stuttered sigh and places his head in his hands. “W-W-Why me?” he asks nervously.

    “Why not you, that should be the question asked of the others, but not asked of it yourself.”

    “I-I-I, I don’t get it,” he says with raised brow.

    Damien laughs softly once again. “Tell me what part you don’t get, and I will try and fill in the holes.”

    “All of it, every single piece. I just don’t get it at all.”

    He laughs louder this time and casually sits on the corner of the table. “You’re going to need a little more structure to that question if you want some sort of answer, because there is the long version or the really, really, really condensed version, and neither of those answer the question you really want to ask. Take advantage of where we are, for here we have plenty of time, and there is no need to rush what does not move, so go back to the drawing board and ask again, ask again and I will answer.”

    Luke squelches his lips together and closes an eye as he searches his mind for the words he needs to structure the question he wants to ask, suddenly he sits up straight with a wide eyed wonder and tilts his head slightly to the side. “What doesn’t move?”

    Damien’s smile transitions into a wild grin. “Time Lucas, time does not move, not here anyway,” he says as he gestures around them.

    “W-W-What’s so special a-about h-here?”

    Damien leans in towards him. “I’ll tell you a secret,” he whispers as he looks around the room playfully before leaning back in towards Luke, “it’s not really HERE that’s so special.”

    Luke stares at him for a few moments as his brow furrows downward, then he jerks upward and smiles broadly. “Is it ME!” he asks excitedly. “Can I stop time?”

    Damien laughs hysterically, slapping his leg with delight. “YOU!” he roars gleefully. “HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TIME BEOFRE?”

    “N-N-N-No,” Luke stammers as his cheeks glow brightly. “B-B-But if y-y-your not talking a-about me, w-w-who are yo-you talking about?”

    “ME!” Damien bellows. “IT’S BLOODY WELL ME! I STOPPED TIME!”

    Luck smiles smugly, “Bullshit.”

    Damien’s brow conclaves into itself, and stares deathly at him. “Why the NOT can’t it be me?”

    “B-Because well, you’re you!” he says.

    Damien’s face twists up with rage as the very sky turns black. “DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHO I AM!” he screams as lightning plows from the skies and strikes the ground around then. “DO YOU…” and then Damien stops in his tracks and the skies clear as quickly as they darkened, and he stands before the quivering Luke with rosy red cheeks. “I-I-I’m sorry, I totally forget myself sometimes. You get used to people KNOWING who YOU are regardless of the clothes you wear, and you forget sometimes that not everyone can see your TRUE form,” he says as he unzips Damien like a suit, and steps out in all his glowing glory.

    “O-Oh m-my G-G-G-God,” Luke stammers as he falls to his knees.

    “Close enough,” Damien says with a wry smile upon his blackened lips.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – He Who Can Be King – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – He Who Can Be King – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    Bray drips to his knees and stretches his arms out wide as he arches his head backwards peering into the sky with eyes wild.

    “You call me home while I cannot be found, yet I see the doorway that should not be. Forsake a pathway beneath the sin, yet I regret nothing, slender hands around my flesh, thrusting upwards, my seed is planted in the moistness of thy lips,” he snarls with a wicked smile as he casts his deranged vision back to the bloody face of Sharon and Ikisa. “Harlots one and all, the devils work done and won, my sin aplenty, my beanies none.” he gyrates as he forces himself to his feet tall while still holding his arms out. His nakedness now fully on display, as his wasted seed drips from the end of his flaccid cock.

    “You fornicate without purpose, yet expect an army to surround you, what do you want from life if it is not to further your gene pools existence?” Heart prods as he looks down into the pit with stoic presence.

    Bray smiles and spins around as he slaps his hairy bare bosom. “You stand up there with a mouth dirty as sin, afraid to venture down because of what I would put in, maggot of virtue, prince of bed wetting liars, come down here and taste me, I’ll be gentle I promise,” he retorts with a wicked grin upon his lips.

    Heart points a thrusting finger towards him. “I will not grant you favour, and I will not be dragged into this ridiculous game. When dawn makes its mark on the area, you will be put to death. So run while you can gingerbread man, for running is all you ha…” he doesn’t get to finishing his words of larceny as a blade cuts his arm from his shoulder, as it drops into the pit below. Heart finds no scream able to escape his frozen throat as he moves his gaze from the jets of red that shoot from his arm to that of his attacker. His mouth drops open and his eyes widen as he locks eyes with his son Jacob.

    “M-M-My s-son w-what have you done?” he stammers.

    “I have done what must be done, for the betterment of my child,” Jacob says as Heart’s eyes move from his son’s eyes and down to his engorged stomach.

    “The seed planted in the many and the more, the fathers and sons, the mothers and daughters, the sin and the sun, I am more and I am wonderful.” Bray says proudly as he slaps his bosom once more, while his other hand strokes his erect penis.

    “M-M-May whatever d-devil hold j-judgment over y-y-you, s-see you in-unworthy w-w-when yo-your to…” he doesn’t get to finish his words as Jacob slices the blade through his neck, separating his head from his shoulders. The world spins violently as his head tumbles into the pit, followed quickly by his decapitated body. And as the darkness creeps in to drag him away he is pulled high into the air by the cackling Bray, before he thrusts his cock into Heart’s mouth. 

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Danny Long Legs – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Danny Long Legs – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    “Well I’ll be hogtied, it’s Danny Long Legs!” he says as a twinkle glimmers in his eyes and a soft smile draws itself across his wrinkled lips as he looks over the photograph that Clare passed him.

    “D-D-Danny Long Legs?”

    “Yup! We used to sing songs about him when we were kids, not that D-Danny Long Legs w-was his real name, it’s just what we called him back in the day on account of his long legs.” Harry says as he hands the photo back to Marilyn with a shaking hand. “To be true I don’t think I ever knew his real name, but he can’t be your guy because Danny’d be dead by now, so I’m sorry you made the trip all the way up here.”

    Clare looks down at the photo and bites her bottom lip, then looks up at Harry once again. “What if I told you this photo was taken last week.”

    Harry looks at her a chuckles softly, “I’d still say it’s not Danny, he looked like that when I was a kid, so maybe he’s a grand child, or some close cousin, but there’s no way it’d be Danny for that to be him, he’d need to be at least a hundred and fifty years old, and lady time I heard that’s impossible, not looking like that anyway.”

    “B-But what if it was him, what he was even older than one-hundred and fifty years, or even two-hundred! What then?”

    “Then I’d be telling you that you’re the one that needs to be in one of these places instead of me.” he scoffs as he thrusts a thumb over his shoulder with a playful wink.

    “T-Tell me about the song you used to s-sing as a k-kid?” she asks nervously.

    “It was just a song, the kind kids sing to make fun of other kids.” he grunts as he forces himself to his feet uneasily. ”It won’t solve any mysteries for you Clare, it’ll just open new ones, so stop looking for answers in the past, because they ain’t there. Now if you don’t mind, I-I-I, I have to have my afternoon nap, you’ll understand you’re my age,” he says as he turns and shuffles away.

    “Danny, Danny, crawling on the wall. Danny, Danny, taller than tall. Danny, Danny, under your bed. Danny, Danny, he’ll make you dead!” Clare coarsely sings off-key. Harry stops in his tracks and slowly turns back to her, his eyes bright and alive once more as they dance with energy.

    “I knew he’d come back one day! I-I-I, I told Duncan, I told him that he was just sleeping, that he wasn’t really dead.” Harry says excitedly as he scrambles back and snatches the photo from her hands. “Was this taken down at the old mill, or at the toy factory?”

    She stares at him for a few moments, almost dumb founded by the questions as her bottom lip trembles and her gaze moves past him.

    He slaps her across the arm with the photo, “Come on girl, don’t come all this way and get my hopes up just to clam up in the end game. Where is the devil?”

    “I-I-I, I never sh-should’ve c-come, I-I-I, I led him to you,” she says as she looks at Harry, terror written across her face. “T-T-The so-song, I-it wasn’t the k-kids who sang it, w-was it?” she asks nervously, but she needed wait for Harry to answer as the light flicker and a raspy voice starts singing. “Danny, Danny, crawling on the wall. Danny, Danny, taller than tall. Danny, Danny, under your bed. Danny, Danny, he’ll make you dead!”

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Deadman’s Grip – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Deadman’s Grip – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    “And they say to this day, in the dead of night when the moon is at its highest peak, you can still here his cries, and some have even told stories of meetings made between them and the Baron himself,” Stolzen says with a wry smile across his lips, as he looks around the campfire at the others, until his eyes fall upon as set his is unfamiliar with. He pulls his head back and twists his jaw in contemplation.

    “A charming story I must say, but you left out so many juicy pieces of the overall puzzle that what you hold before us is a bland colourless version instead of the utopia we sought and were promised,” the man says with a stony gaze, and chiseled jaw.

    Stolzen laughs nervously as he breaks out in a cold sweat, “Y-Y-You come for t-the smile b-but e-end up staying f-f-for the r-r-roast beef.” he stammers as he looks around at the sea of eyes that stare towards the interloper with curious intent .

    “I’m not going to even pretend to understand what you just said, as it makes little to no sense on any level. All I will say on any matter that is left to discuss is how epic this all feels, and poignant it seems that you were to discuss such fancifully things while introducing everyone to my land.” he says with a confidence that oozes from each word.

    “T-T-This land b-belong to no one, and th-the stories I j-just told are on-onl…” his words find themselves lost in his throat as the stranger smiles broadly seconds before the campfire is swallowed by the very ground itself.

    “This land, is MY LAND! AND MY REACH IS FAR GRANDER THAN THAT OF STORIES, FOR I AM THE HYRDA AND THE OMEGA!” he roars as the very earth beneath them trembles while the others scream in terror.

    Stolzen thrusts himself quickly to his feet a pulls his revolver free as week as a torch, shining it to where the strange sat moments ago, only to now find the bloody corpse of one of his men. He arches up and forwards, sweeping the area before him with the torches light, passing over body after body of his soldiers until he finally comes to a stop upon the huddled mass of the stranger as he crouched over a withering captive. Without a moment of contemplation her squeezes the trigger and drills do shots into the figures back, but it fields no results.

    He squeezes again, emptying the remainder of the guns clip into the strangers back, but it still doesn’t persuade him to leave, in fact it only seemed to encourage his attack, as he drops the lifeless corpse and roses slowly to his feet.

    As he turns to face Stolzen he wipes the sea of red that is painted across his face, and smiles a mouth full of pointy white teeth while proudly striding towards him.

    “The tales tell of so many things, so many deeds done without remorse, so many lives drained away and taken proudly. All these stories and all these deaths, yet you seem to have learnt nothing but ignorance from the source material. No valued piece of information, no nugget of gold that houses my undoing. You are an…” He stops in his tracks as his brow furrows and his lips twitch. “Why do you smile when faced with defeat?” he asks curiously of the smiling Stolzen.

    “Because it is you who has underestimated me, for there is no life worth rise of my family, not even my own, especially when it has already began to expire.” he says with a nervous grin as he proudly raises his hand to reveal a dead man’s switch tightly under his grip.

    The strangers nose twitches and his eyes open wide with surprise. “I-I-I, I can smell your cancer from here.”

    “And I can smell your urine!” he says he releases his grip.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Black Tie And Cocktail Shoes – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Black Tie And Cocktail Shoes – A Short Story From A Twisted Halloween 2021

    Kiefer blinks several lazy times before his iris dilate in the darkness that grips at his sides. Suddenly his world heaves forward and arches upwards as it begins to spins in an uneasy twisting movement while the silence slowly finds itself drowned out by distorted reverberations of a guitar being strummed. With a whimsical expression on his face, his eyelids fall heavily over his glassy stare as the music sends him comfortably off to sleep, but as a smile softly grows across his lips a sharp note cuts through the peacefulness and his bloodshot eyes shoot open with abject horror.

    A woman grips his hand tightly, as he stares in disoriented rage around the room, staring into faces of people he knows he should somehow know, but their names and identities don’t reveal themselves to him.

    “K-Kiefer, i-it’s okay, we’re all here for you just like you wanted us to, just like a r-real family,” she says as she looks to the others and then back to him, tears streaming down her cheeks.

    “W-W-What’s bloody wrong with you!” he scoffs as he pulls his hand away from her, and stares with a twisted nose towards the others. “And w-what the BLOODY HELL a-a-are you all s-staring at! C-Can’t a man die alone in peace?”

    She reaches out for him again, trying to grab his hands while he tries in vain to avoid her. “You lost that right long ago old man, haven’t you heard the news?”

    “BAH TO THE NEWS!” he bellows as he throws his arms in the air and brushes her hands away once more. “C-Can’t you see the TRUTH! C-Can’t you see through their LIES! I’m already dead, they’re just keeping me alive until I haven’t any strength left to fight the demons away!” he spits with venomous intent, while a thick froth forms in the corners of his mouth.

    “P-Please, let u…”

    “AWAY WITH YOU!” he bellows.

    One of the men launches themselves  to their feet and sticks his chest out as a frown cuts itself across his lips. “SEE! SEE! I TOLD YOU THIS WAS A MISTAKE!” he shouts as he points a thrusting finger towards Kiefer. “I KNEW HE COULDN’T CHANGE, NOT EVEN ON HIS DEATH BED! NOT YOU! SHIT CAN BE COVERED AND BURIED, BUT IT’S STILL FUCKING SHIT!”

    “S-SEBASTIAN!” She snaps, as she casts a deathly glance towards him.”Remember why we’re here!” she hisses through clenched teeth as she turns back to Kiefer, and grips his hand tightly once more while Sebastian throws himself back into his seat, gruffly folding his arms across his chest.

    “I-I-I, I d-don’t k-know you p-people! W-W-Who in the g-god damn hell are y-you, and why a-are you s-stopping me from DYING!” he says with wide panicked eyes, as Fiona’s grip tightens and a wry grin slowly creeps onto her lips.

    “Look harder Kiefer. Look into the eyes of us all, and tell each one of us that you don’t know who we are! Tell us you have forgotten your victims, because we sure as SHIT haven’t forgotten you?” She snarls through rotten teeth.

    “F-Fiona?” he stammers as she gently nods her head.

    “There you go,” she says smugly.

    “B-B-But yo-you can’t be h-here, n-not now, I-I-I, I’m no-not ready to g-go yet.”

    “A minute ago you wanted to just die in peace, and now you’re not ready to go, make up your mind!” Sebastian playfully.

    “I-I-I, I wanna go back!” Kiefer quips quickly as tears well up in his eyes as he stares around the room at the all too familiar faces. “I DON’T WANNA DIE! I DON’T WANNA DIE!” he screams as he suddenly finds himself standing a few feet away from his motionless body as it lies strapped down on the execution table, as the warden fells once more for a pulse.

    “Time of death,” the warden says as he looks up at Kiefer and grins. “NOW!” he snarls as everything goes black.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Red Dead Rain – A Short Story From It’s Not A Normal Friday 13th 2021

    5 Minute Horror Story – Red Dead Rain – A Short Story From It’s Not A Normal Friday 13th 2021

    He attempts to swallow the tirade of spit and phlegm that sticks in his throat once again, only this time violently coughing as it grips his throat even fiercer, desperately he looks up at her with blood shot eyes, which only causes her smile to grow grander.

    “Look at you,” she says with salty words, each dripping with an elixir of spite and arrogance. “How the mighty have fallen,” she hisses as she grips his jaw and pulls him effortlessly to his feet, pirouetting around on the concrete floor in her roller-skates. She stares at him proudly as they spin, then kisses him, thrusting her tongue deep into his mouth. Like a hand searching for a lost item behind the couch, her tongue wraps itself around the ball of mucus that has attached itself to his throat and pulls it free. As she draws herself away, she leaves a spiderweb like trail of spit hanging between them, then smiles broadly, displaying a green jewel that was hiding within the mucus between her teeth, and as he drops to the floor she gently spits it into her hand.

    He takes desperate breath, after desperate breath, gasping as if every one was to be his last.

    “Back in the days before civilization, one such as you would’ve had your hands and your balls cut from your body.” she says as her eyes look over the jewel and down to him. “What words do you have for me child? What reasons do you have for stealing from my house?” she growls as she slowly begins to circle him like a shark does its prey. “Tell me why you dared to kidnap one of my children?”

    “Y-Y-Your children? I-I-I, I don’t k-k-know anything a-a-about your ki-kids. I-I-I, I needed th-the money, and I was promised a-a-a small f-f-fortune fo-for one of th-those jewels, n-n-no one said any-anything about ki-ki-kidnapping KIDS! I-I-I, I didn’t t-t-touch your kids.”

    The smile widens on her face, and her eyes glisten brightly as she slowly glides around the room bathed in its neon glow. “A tool is only as good as the user who uses it, and you have been used poorly Duncan. NOW stop your games and face me without this pathetic shell! Face ME like someone proud of their heritage, and not hiding in a snivelling animal that is about to DIE!”

    His face twists, and his teeth are bared in aggressive fashion. “I AM NO SNIVELLING ANIMAL WENCH, I WILL BE YOUR UNDOING!” he screams in a voice not his own.

    She slides to a grinding stop and grins broadly. “Welcome to the game, I was wondering when you were going to show yourself.”

    His brow furrows and a pulsating twitch cascades across his face. “I-I-I, I don’t know what you mea-mean, s-so stop playing these STUPID games with me and tell me WHAT the FUCK is going ON!”

    “You don’t know he’s in there, do you? He’s a passenger, riding along beneath your flesh like a stowaway would within the bowels of a ship, hiding himself why you risk all to do his bidding.”

    “W-W-What the fuck are you talking a-a-about WOMAN! Y-Y-Your no-not making sense.”

    “Yes I am, and you are starting to realise that aren’t you? Suddenly all the weird dreams, the lost moments in time, the talking to yourself that has been taking place, its making sense. All these things you thought were adverse reactions from the lack of drugs you’ve had in your body, are not uncountable moments, but signs of a traveller riding inside you, a spirit possessing the very flesh you so pathetically worship. Lay bare your sins and face me without the face of another!” she bellows, as a sword appears in her hand, and she quickly removes Duncan’s head from his shoulders. Wave after wave of blood spurts ever upwards, showering her in a red rain until he drops to the ground silent, and the beast stares back at her with pools of black in place of his eyes.

    “You’ve seen through my meat suit, but you w….” his words are cut short as she drives the blade into the beast’s chest.

    “I am no wench, I am a mother protecting her children! What are you?” she hisses as he melts away in a pile of ash.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – See It Shine – First Short Story From 2020 Book Eleven

    5 Minute Horror Story – See It Shine – First Short Story From 2020 Book Eleven

    The diamond spins without fault or fancy above them, capturing the essence of their stare within it.

    “D-D-Do you think it kn-knows?” she says softly, gripping his hand tightly.

    “Do I think it knows what?”

    She rolls her eyes and looks at him with a grizzly glare of frustration. “You know, what we did.”

    He smirks broadly and brings his gaze to meet hers. “We haven’t really done anything, yet anyway.” He says as he grips the back of his neck and kneads it like dough.

    She looks back up at it and purses her lips together as she wiggles her nose like a sixty’s genie would. “We won’t be doing anything more if you continue to act like that, and you know that’s not what I meant.”

    He laughs nervously, “I know, and I didn’t mean for it to sound the way it did.” he says as his gaze moves back to the diamond as well. “Do you think it knows?” he asks.

    Without hesitation she hooks a punch into his arm.

    “WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR!”

    “Because you’re a jerk!”

    “What?” he says with a wry smile upon his face. “You literally started it, I was just echoing your question.”

    “You mean repeating it, to be a jerk.”

    He laughs loudly and pushes her away gently. “If anyone here is a jerk, it’s you, not me.”

    “Why does it have to be me? Why can’t it be YOU?”

    “Because you’re the one who tried to sabotage the dig site, which in turn created that bloody thing that’s hovering in the sky. So you’re the one who started it all, and you’re the JERK!”

    She stands looking at him with clenched fists, grinding her teeth from side to side. She lets out a stuttered breath and turns back to the diamond object that spins high above them. “Doesn’t mean I’m the jerk here, and don’t you dare think I’m going down on my own, you helped, you were part of it all!”

    “I only wanted to get in your pants, that’s all. Anything that actually happened had nothing to do with me, I was just emotional support.”

    “You don’t have a dick,” she hisses.

    He stares at her with a confused scowl upon his face, then pulls down his pants, and grips his flaccid penis. “This look like nothing to you?”

    She furrows her brow, and grimaces. “Is it alive?”

    He looks down and then back up at her, “What the FUCK is that supposed to mean? OF COURSE IT’S ALIVE!”

    “Really? It doesn’t look alive right now.”

    His face glows bright red, and he quickly pulls his pants back up. “T-T-T-That’s because I’m not in the mood, okay!” he says through clenched teeth. As he zips up the zipper, he catches some of the extra skin from his penis in its teeth and lets out a silent scream while his left eye twitches uncontrollably.

    “What the fuck is wrong with you now?” she asks with a sigh of frustration.

    “M-M-M-MY COCK!” he screams as she pulls his hands away to reveal a flab of throbbing flesh ground in the zipper. Without a second’s hesitation she empties the contents of her stomach at his feet.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Hammer It Home – A Short Story From A Twisted Kiss On New Years Eve 2020

    5 Minute Horror Story – Hammer It Home – A Short Story From A Twisted Kiss On New Years Eve 2020

    She smiles, then picks up one of the small nails from the table and gently holds it against the bloody hand.

    “Now, I know I said I was going to stop, that I was going to leave you alone and move onto something entirely different from the little ecosystem we have created here, but…” She says as she brings a hammer down onto the head of the nail, driving it into his hand.

    He lets out a muffled scream, as he twists up his nose in defiance, staring at her with deathly remorse.

    Her smile broadens, and she giggles like a schoolgirl would when being wooed by the boy of their dreams. “Look at you! Look at you shine!” she says with exasperated breath. “I have spent a many a long moment priding myself on perfecting my skill set, not only to be the complete package I so desire myself to be, but also so I am truly a dread for all who come and sit before me. Of course, you know this, because it’s how I sold myself to you the day I walked into that little two-dime whore house you used to work out of. Do you remember that day like I do, or do you sit there regretting it now?” she asks with a slight tilt of her head, as she looks curiously into his hate filled eyes.

    He slowly opens his trembling lips, and twists his jaw around in a clockwise motion, then anti-clockwise, before licking his lips, never breaking eye contact. “I couldn’t care less for that day, it was not unlike any other day I had lived before, and it did nothing to change my path. I…”

    “LIAR!” she bellows, as she brings the hammer down on his hand, shattering two of his fingers in the process. She presses her lips together tightly and swallows a dry mouthful of air. “Liar,” she hisses.

    He forces a smile onto his lips, while his eyes berate her with a tirade of verbal abuse. “Y-Y-Y-You need to come to the realisation, my pretty little butterfly, that you are nothing in the wayward scheme of anyone else’s life, but your own, and when you come to that realisation, you may truly be great at this job. Until then, you will always be the little rich girl who begged me to teach her how to manipulate pain as a weapon, so she could teach Mummy and Daddy for not loving her enough.”

    She sneers, then brings the hammer down again, smashing the other fingers on the same hand, then in the same movement drives the head of the hammer into his right kneecap, causing him to scream out in agony. “THERE YOU ARE!” she roars with wide eyes.

    He rocks his lips across each other, tightly closing his eyes for a few moments as he forces his tongue around inside his mouth, forcing it up into the top corner, and dislodging one of his own teeth. A powder spills out onto his tongue, and he lets out a stuttered breath, before opening his eyes once more. He stares at her with a half-arsed smile, then lets out a sharp hiss. “W-W-When you look back on this, remember you failed,” he says as he starts convulsing violently.

    She grips him by the hair, and pulls his head back, snarling in his face like a rabid animal, “When you get to where you’re going, know it won’t be far enough!” she hisses, as she smashes him across the face with the hammer, firstly dislocating his jaw, then ripping it from his skull as she continues to hit him with the hammer repeatedly.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Thrice Upon A Mistake – First Short Story From A Twisted Kiss On New Years Eve 2018

    5 Minute Horror Story – Thrice Upon A Mistake – First Short Story From A Twisted Kiss On New Years Eve 2018

    “A facsimile of a lie is what you are Devon! Nothing more or less. Your existence began with a mistake, and so will that be your end!” Silas hisses, passion surging from his words.

    “Always you come back to the night you laid with mother. Always the same shit flows from within your failing husk. Throw away these words father. Embrace a new way of thinking and come with me to a world twisted to unyielding power that burns within our lineage. Turn this mistake, into an unquestionable release of the real truth!”

    “I’d rather burn at the stake than to cast my all in with you. I thought I’d made that clear the last time we met!” he hisses as he gestures towards where Devon’s left eye used to sit.

    He smiles, “like all good sons, I forgive my father without prejudice. For he is the one who’s seed gave me life.”

    “A mirror cracked. Blood splattered across the wall. A world crying out in agony. Seas of fire burning everything. These things I give care about, but your fate I do not. So go sing me a lullaby. go break the walls of reality down, just don’t expect me to be there by your side. Expect me at your throat with a blade pressing against your skin, slowly slicing it open to allow your life-giving blood freedom!”

    “And I love you too, father,” Devon says as he spreads his arms and lifts from the ground, the room shakes violently, and a volatile vortex of wind pushes itself around the small area. “HOW BITTER AN ENDING YOU MUST NOW FACE. BUT KNOW THIS, IT WAS YOUR DECISION NOT MINE!”

    “That’s where you’re wrong, it’s always been headed towards this moment since the day you escaped through your mother’s innards. Though your birth was a mistake, it was still for-told in the ancient text of your ancestors, as is your ending.”

    “Tell me father, in these so-called ancient texts you speak of, was your ending written as well? Please excuse my abruptness with the question, but I’m asking for a friend,” he says with a wicked smile upon his face.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – A Mouse Trap – First Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2020

    5 Minute Horror Story – A Mouse Trap – First Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2020

    “There is no happy fat man in my story, there is only Yuri, and he is neither fat nor jolly. So let me ask you one last time, and I beg of you to tell me words of wisdoms. The bag of toys that never runs out, the void that exists inside it, can one escape its clutches?” he says with a nervous sneer upon his lips, as he casts a fevered glance from the floor, to the red bag that sits in the corner. He pulls the phone from his ear, and stares at it with wide bewildered eyes, checking to see if it is still working, then thrusts it back again.

    “Little man, little man, answer my question!” he snarls down the receiver. “The sack of goodies, where does it go, and once you’re in there can you ever get out?”

    “H-H-He can find you, h-h-he always does,” a nervous voice stammers from the other end.

    He looks down at the pool of blood that continues to grow across the floorboards, catching a glimpse of his empty eyes as they stare out from within the decaying form.

    “HE IS NO MORE!” he spits venomously down the line. “HE PAID THE PRICE FOR HIS LISTS MADE OF CHILDREN, NAUGHTY AND NICE! NOW TELL ME THE TRUTH, AND TRY NOT TO LIE, BECAUSE NOW I CAN TELL WHEN YOU’RE LYING, WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPING AND WHEN YOU’RE NAUGHTY OR NICE!”

    The voice laughs softly on the other end.

    “WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT? DO YOU THINK I JOKE? HIS BODY LIES BEFORE ME, DECAYING AS I SPEAK!”

    “You will soon know that the spirit of Christmas is just that, a spirit.” the voice says with a jovial high. “One may even say it is more like a seasonal possession than a spiritual awakening, and now you are the mouse caught in the trap, and it’s cat is hiding beneath the hat.”

    “W-W-WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT!”

    The phone goes dead in his ear and he pulls it away again, staring at the empty screen that stares back at him. He catches a breath in his chest, as he spies his reflection in the phones screen and releases his hold. The phone tumbles to the floor and lands with a dull thud in the sea of red. He clutches slowly at his face at first, and then starts to tear at his hair and flesh.

    “T-T-This ca-can’t be HAPPENING!” he bellows as he starts to become more and more aware of the changes that have started to slowly take place across his body. And as his stomach grows, he screams in agony, pulling at his pants, trying desperately to undo them, finally after many a petrified scream he manages to pull them off. With heavy breaths he tosses his torn singlet to the ground, and stands naked, staring into his twisted reflection in the pool of blood before him.

    “W-W-What is happ-pp-ppening?” he stammers nervously, as he pulls and prods his now flabby flesh.

    “Ain’t you figured it out yet?” a voice says from the shadows, as several dozen miniature sized people dressed in brightly coloured clothing crawl from out of the shadows.

    “I-I-I, I’m Santa?” he says with a nervous smile across his face.

    “Almost right Bruno,” one of the elves says, as something else rushes from the shadows, and forces itself down his throat.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Be Thee In The Rain – First Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2018

    5 Minute Horror Story – Be Thee In The Rain – First Short Story From A Twistedly Jolly Christmas 2018

    “If what you say is true, then we must change the outcome!”

    Spider laughs loudly and wipes the tears that run down his face away from his eyes. “You are truly a man of faith, but that faith will not do today, nor will it do tomorrow. Can’t you see the hope you once brought, is now wasted. Forget them, they are on a collision course with extinction anyway. Allow their hand to be brought undone by another, instead of their own carelessness.”

    “I can’t do that, and you know that to be true. I am fabled by their stories, and in those fabled, given strength. Without them, I too am nothing but a husk of what you see before you. I must make haste, and save the day, if only to save myself.”

    Spider’s many eyes open wide and he laughs louder than before, “The great man is more concerned about his own existence, than the terror that strikes his so-called followers.”

    “THAT IS A LIE!”

    “But you just fucking said it, you just fucking said you will save the day, if only to save yourself. That is a glorious sign you care more for your own dumb existence, than their pittance.”

    “You mistake my words for their true meanings and twist them into something more for your own cruel jokes. I have nurtured their children from my breasts. I have brought joy to their lives, when they had no hope to look forward to. I deserve my existence, as do they. We are symbiotic counterparts, where you are a leech, sucking all life dry so you can survive another day.” he says as he lets out a fierce breath of fiery air from out of his nose. “I’ll admit, the yin and the yang is tiresome, and I have grown weary of their carelessness, but I love them, for they love me.” he says proudly, his cheeks glowing with pride.

    “Liar!”

    “YOU ARE THE LIAR! NOT ONLY TO YOURSELF, BUT TO OTHERS!” he bellows. “NOW RID YOURSELF FROM MY SIGHT, BEFORE YOU ARE THE FIRST TO BE GIVEN MY FINAL GIFT!”

    A sea of tongues spew from multiple mouths, as it lets out a low hiss. “You think you are capable of harming ME? I am a god, worshipped by many, and you, you are a fairy tale told to children by uneducated parents, as a tool to try and make them behave!”

    He tightens his hands into fists and clenches his teeth, once again letting out a fierce breath of air from his nose. “It’s the level of faith, and how it is given that makes us different.”

    Spider stops in his tracks, and hisses as his head tilts. “Those that worship me know I am true, and will do anything to meet my will, while your followers are children. Pathetic little children. What power can children give you?”

    “Wonder and dreams. Fairy tales and marshmallows. Joy and cheer. Children are magic, and their love gives me the power to be anything.” he says as he rises from the ground and is encased in a brilliant green glow. “I am Santa Claus! I am the power personified, and you spider, are no more!” he cries, as a blinding light burns through spider, until there is nothing left.

    ***

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  • 5 Minute Horror Story – Devouring Of A Moment – First Short Story From 2020 Book Ten

    5 Minute Horror Story – Devouring Of A Moment – First Short Story From 2020 Book Ten

    “A day in the light, a year in the dark, that is the curse you also now face.” he says as he wipes the blood from his lips and sneers at them with a sarcastic smugness.

    “You have CONDEMNED us all the hell foul demon! We….” he doesn’t get to finish his words, as he is quickly upon him, and grips him tightly by the throat.

    “I have saved you all! I have allowed you to live through the impossible. I am your saviour, and you should worship me as such,” he says as he snaps the man’s neck and tosses his lifeless corpse to the ground. From out of the darkest corners of the cavern they descend, devouring at first the light, and then the corpse.

    He growls, then leers at the others as he bares his teeth and levitates off the ground. “Does anyone else share his desires? Does anyone else wish to question what I have done to ensure our survival?”

    For many minutes silence is his only answer, until finally a young woman steps forward. “I don’t want to question what you have done, but I-I, I do want to know how long it will be before we can go back above, to see the sun again.”

    He smiles and gently comes back to the earth, landing in front of her. “You are a brave little girl to be asking someone as big and scary like me, such an important question.” he says as he kneels before her and places a hand on her shoulder, squeezing it softly. “Who put you up to this? Tell me and I promise it will be quick.”

    “N-N-No one put me up to anything. I-I, I asked the question, because I want to know how long it will be until I can go outside again, and you’re not big, or scary.” she says, he smiles softly as he tightens his grip.

    “I think you’ll find that I can be very scary,” he hisses.

    “S-S-She’s just a girl,” a voice calls out from the crowd that has slowly surrounded them.

    “Leave her alone, and pick on someone your own size,” another voice yells out.

    “Coward!”

    “Bully!”

    “Monster!”

    He lets out a scream, and spins around, baring his teeth once again. “DO YOU DARE DEFY WHAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU? DO YOU DARE CHALLENGE ME, YOUR SAVIOUR!”

    “You are no saviour, not to me,” the girl says.

    “Who are you? You’re not just a little girl, are you. You’re something entirely different, aren’t you?”

    She smiles, “Because I don’t bend to your will, you suspect me to be more than I am. How brazen an ego you have.”

    “My ego has nothing to do with this. I saved this town from a far greater evil than I, all I ask is the respect I deserve.”

    “You have condemned them to a lengthier death is all,” the girl says as her eyes become like pools of oil, and her smile tears across her face.

    “W-W-W-What are you?” he stammers, as he stumbles backwards.

    “I am the spider, and you have brought me all the flies,” she says as the darkness moves in once more, this time for him.

    ***

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