Hello, fellow readers!
To help celebrate #Horrorweek on Goodreads, I decided to get in on the fun and use one of the writing prompts they offer to authors. I used the prompt "And they were hungry." Enjoy the story, ladies and gents.
My breath hitched in my throat as I dashed inside the abandoned house.
Slamming the door so hard that tiny splinters of wood broke off the
edges, I leaned against it and tried to calm my frantic heartbeat.
What were those things? Where exactly am I now?
I
had been running for far too long, caught up in the fear of being
found. I tried to convince myself that this was a nightmare. I pictured
myself waking up and laughing over such a silly dream. But my mind knew
better. I couldn't lie to myself. Those things had been real. Those
hideous monsters in the woods behind my house were not some figment of
my imagination or trick of the dim light of dusk.
They were real.
Their long ears and black skin. Their claw-like hands. Their huge blue
eyes that searched for new prey. The clicking sounds that emitted from
their puckered lips.
They were real, all right. And they were hungry.
What should I do? Where should I go?
How
would I ever be able to get back to the safety, however false, of my
own home when those things were still out there? Even as my mind reeled,
my body was still in the here and now. And I realized that I wasn't
alone in the old, dilapidated house. As my eyes focused in the dark
around me, the last rays of light coming through a broken window nearby
fading away, I saw something glimmer to my right.
It was almost like
eye-shine, from a cat or dog. A soft clicking sound to my left had me
whirling around to see what was there. More eyes near the window. As
full dark fell over me, the eyes began to emit a soft blue glow. The
same blue color as those freaky things outside.
And there were dozens of them, all low to the ground.
I
hadn't escaped into the safety of a temporary hiding place. I had run
right smack into the nesting ground of those monsters. These tiny,
clicking terrors all turned their eyes on me, as if smelling my fear.
And they were hungry, too.
What did you think? Let me know! Have a safe and enjoyable Halloween, everyone.
