By Dylan Manderlink “Looks like you’re ready for Halloween – that’s quite the realistic skeleton you have up there”, the electrician said climbing down the attic ladder. “I’ve never been up there. I just moved in…” 

By Joe The stranger was seriously stinky and my gag reflex kicked in. He glared and said, “Eat my shorts!”, and at the thought, I died.

By Kevin Jones The gumbo was authentic; Disney said so.  Why was there quinoa in it?

By Scott Graves She laughed and cried with joy as her dog smothered her with kisses. A week later she frenzied with fear as her face swelled, red and  puffy, with maggots oozing out of her nostrils and tear ducts.

“This is the police you can come out now, the intruder is gone,” the man’s voice said from behind my locked bathroom door. I was relieved until I remember that I hadn’t had time to call the cops.

By Gwyneth Geiger My food bowl is empty. I starved.

By Gwyneth Geiger My human turned on the vacuum. I ran.

By Natasha Webster As I walked down the aisle, I knew who’d be waiting for me in the end. It was the same person that held me captive and proposed my death just 2 short months prior to the ‘big day’.

By Sara Hinojosa My mother called for me from downstairs. When I walked down to respond, I heard the same voice whisper from behind a closed door: Don’t go down there—I heard it too.

By Raina Panarese The dusky air was heavy as I walked the stony beach on an island filled with ghosts.  I found my tent in the fading light and there, luring behind it, was the bear with the blood shot eyes.