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‘Too Many Candles’: Read my birthday-themed short horror story for this week’s Reedsy contest!

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Happy Friday! I hope you’re all well! It’s been a great week, right? New music from Tool and everything! Anyway, to maintain tradition, I’ve submitted another story for Reedsy’s weekly contest!

As this is Reedsy’s 150th weekly prompt, the theme was that of ‘birthday’. Rather appropriate, don’t you think? Initially, I wasn’t sure where to take the story, but thoughts of cakes and candles set me off in the right direction… The title of my short story is Too Many Candles. You can read it here!

Enjoy the short read! And remember: always take a gift to a birthday party… you never know what might happen!

Have a good weekend!

P.S. As usual, I’ll be skipping Bite-Sized Horror today as I’m already posting. Check back for more two-sentence chills tomorrow!

Have a read of my short horror story for the August 2019 #BlogBattle: ‘Foliage’!

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Hey everyone! Hope you’re all well! I’ve once again had a go at the Blog Battle. The prompt for this month is ‘intercept’. My story came together quite quickly, and I had an evil grin on my face as I frantically wrote.

You can read the short story here, the title is Foliage.

“The raindrops pitter-pattered overhead as the rich perfume of copper percolated throughout the tent.” Continue Reading

I hope you enjoy the short read. Please have a look at the other stories as well!

P.S. As before, as I’m sharing a short story, I’ll be pausing my Bite-Sized Horror series for today, so I’m not spamming your feeds! It’ll be back tomorrow!

‘I Like to Knit’: My short story for this week’s Reedsy contest!

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Hello! How are you today? I’ve had a go at the Reedsy weekly Short Story Contest again!

This week’s theme was Be-all and end-all. I chose prompt #4: “write a story that starts by presenting a highly unusual scene,” and I also included a bonus — prompt #5: “write a story that starts with the same line as it ends.”

So, I’ve written a quirky little comedy-horror titled I Like to Knit. You can read it on my Short Stories page over here!

“The second time I killed my husband was the hardest.” Continue Reading

I hope you enjoy it! I had one or two maniacal chuckles when I was making it up!

 

P.S. As I’m sharing my short story, I thought I’d skip today’s Bite-Sized Horror post, as I don’t want to clog up everyone’s feeds! But don’t worry, normal service will resume tomorrow!

‘House of Mirrors’: My entry for this week’s Reedsy Short Story Contest

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Hey, how’s it going? After a few months off, I decided to participate in Reedsy’s weekly Short Story Contest again, as I always have fun writing from a prompt (and to a short deadline!).

This week’s theme was Stranger Things. Out of the five available prompts, I chose : “write a story based on the theme of good vs. evil.”

Naturally, I wrote a little horror story, titled House of Mirrors. You can read the short story here.

“If you were to judge the scene purely by sight, you would have thought that Jerry was all alone in the house of mirrors.” Continue Reading

I hope you like it! I had an absolute blast writing it!