Fear

  • Daily Grind – Sleep

    I finally, after days, almost a week in fact, found the salvation of sleep. But, it did not come to me gently, honestly I regret it ever happening now. When I closed my eyes, and drifted off into that unknown bliss, I was taken on a journey, one that had no purpose, only to pry…

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  • Daily Grind – Firelight, Dull My Pain

    I had another visitor last night, someone new, it was 3am when I heard the banging on the door, I could see the flashing lights through the gap beneath the door frame. I was instantly charged, my whole body a mess of misfiring electrical impulses. As I gripped the door handle, a shot of pain ripped…

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  • Daily Grind – It’s Getting Personal

    He mocks me the bastard, trying to twist my pain, making light of my darkness, my falling. It arrived in my inbox this morning, the email address, fake, non-existent. Gareth, why? Why do you do this? What did I ever do to you?  

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  • A Glimpse, Into Tomorrow

    The room was dim, only lit by the light of the computer screen and the burning embers of his cigarette. His fingers move quickly over the keyboard, as the words drift from the depths of his imagination, or, from another’s. “You know what happens next,” a voice says from the darkness. “I know, you told me…

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  • 27 Days Until The End – Cranky – Daily Prompt- Wrapped In Words

    Cranky carnivorious beast, ripping, tearing, breaking its way in, chewing, biting, stuffing it all in, I freeze with fear, as I watch it feast, my god, how where does it find the room, and now we’re cursed, with a sugar high, I never knew being a parent, on Easter morning, was such a pain in…

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  • 28 Days Until The End – Committed – 50 Word Story Expanded

    “Bobby, are you sure this is the way he went?” She asks, as they slowly make their way down the deserted hallway, their torches tearing through the darkness like knives. “He ran in here, I swear I’m not lying Sofie, it was Lyndon James, as god is my witness, and all that other crap, he ran…

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  • 28 Days Until The End – Committed – 50 Word Story

    He grips Boddy by the hair, and drives the blade deep into his stomach, and then, for some time, they both freeze in place, staring at each other, until finally, he smiles, and pulls the blade free, leaving Bobby’s dying body to crash helplessly to the ground. “See me now?”

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  • 28 Days Until The End – Free – Daily Prompt – Wrapped In Words

    Close your eyes, and ignore the pain, sleep, the eternal sleep, rest, for you are free, released from this place,  from your pain, so close your eyes, go on, and go forth, step forward, step out, where you end up, heaven or hell, will be measured by your life lived, your payment, your final judgment,…

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  • 29 Days Until The End – Best Offer Accepted – 50 Word Story Expanded

    I don’t know when I first noticed it, the coldness, outside the air was warm, beautiful in fact, I could’ve stripped down to nothing, and still felt like I had too many clothes on, but, inside the house, it was cold, and I mean dead cold. Nothing I could do would make it anymore than…

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  • 29 Days Until The End – Best Offer Accepted – 50 Word Story 

    It was just a simple, off hand comment, one that didn’t mean anything at the time, simply, he said, ‘if I was you, I’d call a preacher, maybe it’s a ghost!’ As soon as he said it, we all laughed, but, as I shut the door, my mind ran wild.

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  • 55 Days Until The End – Escape – 50 Word Story Expanded 

    “Just put the fucking matches down, and let me help you!” She screams, his eyes nervously twitch, moving from the match stick in his hand, to the box in the other, and then to her, and back again, “Toby! For fuck sake, LISTEN to me! Whatever shit you’ve gotten yourself into, it’s not as bad as you…

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  • 55 Days Until The End – Escape – 50 Word Story 

    As the match falls into the gasoline, the room is engulfed with light, he feels the heat hit him, tearing at his flesh, wave after wave, his throat burns, his eyes explode, and then, nothing, the pain, gone, and he stands naked, in darkness, as it stares back at him.

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  • 55 Days Until The End – Whispers – Daily Prompt -Wrapped In Words

    I hear them, in the walls, talking to me, telling me their lies, stories of darkness, of controversy and death, I listen to them, I tired not to, but it’s better to give in, than to try and hide, for in the end, when it comes for me, I want it to know, I know its name, and,…

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  • Day 309 – Daily Prompt – True Horrors Await Me – Wrapped In Words

    And as the beast rised before me, I gazed upon it’s massive form, and I knew true horror, its teeth were many, its eyes were black, its skin was decaying, its hands clawed, and its stench, well, it was overwhelming, ano as it looked down at me, it smiled, how long I have waited it said,…

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  • Day 300 – My Name – 50 Word Story Expanded

    “Damn it Damien, let them go, they’re innocent!” “Never, no one is innocent, everyone of these fucks has sin on their souls, and they’ll all pay the price, so is my word, so, it shall be!” He says, gripping the blade tightly as he slashes it into the air violently, coming to a stop in…

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  • Day 265  – Frantic Motion – Short Story

    “You have to trust me,” he says, as he stares into her hopeless eyes, she nods her head, biting into her lip as she does. “With everything I have,” she says. He smiles, “Good, because, what we’re about to do, requires you to do exactly what I say, when I say it. You can’t stop…

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  • Day 247 – Ride, The Lie – Short Story

    Okay, so, last night, I told you about the not so normal drive home I had with my family, I know plenty of you doubted it, laughed off what I told you as another one of my crazy little short stories, and you know what, I don’t blame you, I would. But, don’t tell me…

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  • Day 246 – The Ride – Short Story

    I want to take this moment, the one we’re about to share, to tell you about a story that happened to me, just a few hours ago. I know, in all honesty, you’re not going to believe me, because, I don’t believe it myself, but it’s true, I swear to whatever higher being you believe…

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  • Day 218 – Market – Short Story

    “You seriously brought this piece of shit from there?” He says, holding up the unusual looking goblet, the rim of it cracked and chipped, the base, the same. “Fuck, it won’t even hold any liquid in it, how much did you pay?” “Two hundred,” she says quickly. He looks up at her, his eyes wide…

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  • Day 217 – Green Zoned – Short Story

    “What is, what is,” she says proudly, standing over the bloody and beaten man, who kneels before her. “P-Please, Aurora, can’t you see what you’ve become? There’s st-still time, we, we can still sa-save them,” he says weakly. “Don’t be a fool brother, it’s over. I’ve chosen my alliance, and, we have been victorious. Why…

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