The pilots looked into each other’s eyes.
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It was too late to pull up.

The pilots looked into each other’s eyes.
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It was too late to pull up.

The ice on the lake was so thick, a car could drive over it.
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Where was the hole he’d fallen through?

The cleaner screamed at me to let him in.
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I could see him perfectly through the window of the aeroplane.

“I’m hungry!” whined my seven-year-old daughter.
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I tried my best to not look at the thing stood outside the window.

The leaves of the trees sighed in the wind.
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And then they began to scream.

She gave me butterflies in my stomach.
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I could feel the eggs beginning to hatch.

“Let’s flick on the lights, then,” I said to my co-pilot, as our two-man submarine reached the bottom.
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Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

Wow! How did we get to fifty of these things? This Bite-Sized Horror series started out as a means of filling out the space between my short stories, but they’ve kind of taken over… I hope you guys are enjoying them as much as I am! Here’s to fifty more!
P.S. If you have any prompts or ideas for a Bite-Sized Horror post, please share your thoughts in the comments — I love the challenge!
“Hang in there,” he said, before leaving.
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I swung back and forth on the butcher’s meat hook.

“Let’s hope this goes better than the last one.”
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The anaesthesia pulled me under before I could ask the surgeon what he meant.
