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.14: #WebAuthorsCafe 10/20-10/26: Show us your talent, share a spooky 100-word drabble. (exactly 100 words excluding the title, hashtags and any comments you make.
#百物語 #HyakuMonogatari: 15 Immortality 永遠
Only darkness and silence, except for the tap, tap, tap of Elderkin's held hands. A slow conversation passed from one to the next. A rhythm that kept the emptiness at bay. They shared memories from when there were suns, planets, and even further back, to when life existed. Memories of hunting warm blood and the promise of eternal life.
Now, only the perpetually tormented by a hunger that could no longer be fed remained, along with the tap, tap, tap.
Tap, tap, tap. The Founder said Myrien had uttered rebellion.
Hands let go.
Myrien spun off into entropy's eternal stasis.
Inspired by @HeliaXyana's post:
#Drabble #Horror #Halloween #NMPrompts #NMFic #NMWAC #MicroFiction #TootFic #Vampire #Spooktober #Drabbletober
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.12. #WebAuthorsCafe 10/06-10/12: Do you plan to write anything spooky this month? If so, can you give us a sneak peek?
Lots. I write lots and lots of spooky stories all the time and plan to do a bunch this month.
Follow #HyakuMonogatari for short spookies.
I also write for #Spooktober #Drabbletober and #百物語
[Note 1] Feel free to join in #Drabbletober (A spooky 100-word story a day.)
[Note 2] Or join in on #HayakuMongogatari. Number your submissions one higher than the last. If we reach 100, a spook is supposed to appear. An internet #youkai. Maybe Ernest Hemingway -
#百物語 #HyakuMonogatari: 14 Smile 微笑
#Fandom #AlfredHitchcock #Psycho
#DrabbleTober #Spooktober
#SundayLit (#Happy & #Sad) #Wss366 #WordWeavers 10.5 — Antagonist sadness?A smile touched his lips, like a frost bloom on iron-hard ground: brittle, cold, and easily erased.
His eyes focused on the decaying Victorian on the hill. Mother would be so proud of his cleverness.
She had been so upset when the sheriff came by to ask questions about the abandoned car on Ashcreek Lane. Her shrill voice—a searing, shrieking wind, orphaned sparrows #piping under eaves, and the whistle of a willow cane—blew the crystal away.
But he was cleverer now. His eyes followed the bubbles emerging from the muddy bog, and with them, a full smile welled.
[Note 1] Feel free to join in #Drabbletober (A spooky 100-word story a day.)
[Note 2] Or join in on #HayakuMongogatari. Number your submissions one higher than the last. If we reach 100, a spook is supposed to appear. An internet #youkai. Maybe the muskrat.
[Note 3] Image from Psycho, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock#NMV366 #Drabble #Horror #Halloween #Hitchcock #NMWW #NMPrompts #NMSL #MicroFiction #TootFic
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#百物語: #HyakuMonogatari: 13 Kaeru-chan 蛙ちゃん
#Fandom #Lovecraft
#Wss366 #DrabbleTober #Spooktober“If you hide in the library until after it closes, you’ll hear a #piping: 'Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!'” Kaeru-chan said. It was her contribution to the spooky stories they were exchanging.
No one knew who’d invited her to their party. She smelled of day-old fish, and her face was wrong: pale with round, bulging eyes. Rumors said she had webbed toes.
“They say they're played by worshipers of ancient Nyarlathotep. If you follow the sound to the fourth aisle, you can see them, but you'll never return.”
“How would you know?” a girl asked.
Kaeru just smiled with her round, puckered mouth.
#NMV366 #Drabble #Horror #Halloween #HPLovecraft #MicroFiction #TootFic
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#百物語: #HyakuMonogatari: 13 Kaeru-chan 蛙ちゃん
#Fandom #Lovecraft
#Wss366 #DrabbleTober #Spooktober“If you hide in the library until after it closes, you’ll hear a #piping: 'Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!'” Kaeru-chan said. It was her contribution to the spooky stories they were exchanging.
No one knew who’d invited her to their party. She smelled of day-old fish, and her face was wrong: pale with round, bulging eyes. Rumors said she had webbed toes.
“They say they're played by worshipers of ancient Nyarlathotep. If you follow the sound to the fourth aisle, you can see them, but you'll never return.”
“How would you know?” a girl asked.
Kaeru just smiled with her round, puckered mouth.
#NMV366 #Drabble #Horror #Halloween #HPLovecraft #MicroFiction #TootFic
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#百物語: #HyakuMonogatari: 11 #Square Peg
#Wss366 #Drabbletober #Spooktober
“Honey, that looks like a grave except it’s square.”
“Yep, exactly three by three feet and ten feet deep.”
“Wow. Why our backyard?”
“No one can see me digging. I’ll plant hydrangeas in it when I’m done.”
“Ten feet is awful deep.”
“I wouldn’t want anything sticking out the top. Except for the hydrangeas. Ha, ha. And before you ask why hydrangeas, they were on sale at Sky Nursery.”
“I don’t get it. Why here? Why so deep, and why square?”
Thump.
“Respect. You always loved blue and complained that you were a square peg forced into a round hole.”
[Note 1] Feel free to join in Drabbletober (A spooky 100-word story a day.)
[Note 2] Or join in on #HayakuMongogatari. Number your submissions one higher than the last. If we reach 100, a spook is supposed to appear. An internet #youkai. Maybe Nichol will return to us. -
#百物語: #HyakuMonogatari: 11 #Square Peg
#Wss366 #Drabbletober #Spooktober
“Honey, that looks like a grave except it’s square.”
“Yep, exactly three by three feet and ten feet deep.”
“Wow. Why our backyard?”
“No one can see me digging. I’ll plant hydrangeas in it when I’m done.”
“Ten feet is awful deep.”
“I wouldn’t want anything sticking out the top. Except for the hydrangeas. Ha, ha. And before you ask why hydrangeas, they were on sale at Sky Nursery.”
“I don’t get it. Why here? Why so deep, and why square?”
Thump.
“Respect. You always loved blue and complained that you were a square peg forced into a round hole.”
[Note 1] Feel free to join in Drabbletober (A spooky 100-word story a day.)
[Note 2] Or join in on #HayakuMongogatari. Number your submissions one higher than the last. If we reach 100, a spook is supposed to appear. An internet #youkai. Maybe Nichol will return to us. -
Is it October 18th? Yes, it is! So that is... <counts on fingers>... Episode 18 of the #drabbletober podcast.
Today's tiny story involves a terrified child and a talking puppet:
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Today's episode of Drabbletober is "Becalmed", a tiny nautical horror story.
You can read/listen to it here: https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode2 (or search "drabbletober" in podcastland to subscribe and catch a new story every day). -
Whew! It's the last day of October, so today's story is the final drabble of my 2023 #drabbletober run. Thank you to everyone who's read, shared, and commented along with me through the month!
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023-day-31(especial thanks to @bobfry and @NaraMoore for boosting posts throughout the month - much appreciated!)
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October 17th, my seventeenth drabble of #drabbletober!
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023-day-17 -
Day 16, and we're officially more than halfway through #drabbletober! Here is the sixteenth drabble (with a content note for death/dying).
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023-day-16 -
Friday 13th.... and day 13 of #drabbletober. Here is today's 100-word story!
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Day 11 of my drabble-a-day challenge for October... #drabbletober
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023-day-11 -
Hi, #WritingCommmunity! I'm now more than a week into my challenge to write (and post) a drabble every day during October. Do you fancy joining in and writing some tiny stories this month? Tag 'em #drabbletober if you do, I'd love to read them!
You can catch up with my drabbles so far this year, at:
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CW: 百物語 Hyaku Monogatari – 7 – (10/07/2023) - Bugs
“Are you Japonica or Americana or maybe Fuliginosa?” asked the Silverfish. “You’re big enough to be Surinamensis.”
“Pardon,” I said. “I’m Gregor Samsa.”
“With that accent, definitely Germanica.”
“Hello, Gegor Blattella.”
“No, Samsa.”
“Sorry, Samusu-san.”
This was a confusing conversation. “What are talking about?” I asked.
“If you climb the dresser, you can see in the mirror.” The silverfish said, waving its antenna at a tall brown pole.
“I can’t climb that!”
“Try.”
It was easier than it looked and once on top, I looked in the mirror.
“I’m a cockroach!”
“Germanica,” the silverfish added.
“Haven’t you read ‘The Metamorphosis.’”
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200#Spooktober #Drabble #Drabbletober #FlashFiction #Horror #HorrorFam #Creepypasta #FranzKafka #TheMetamorphosis #DieVerwandlung #HyakuMonogatari #百物語
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百物語 Hyaku Monogatari – 6 - (10/06/2023)
I follow idols on IG and was flipping through a fav idol’s images. First, OOTD pics. Then, gritter ones. Finally, a movie showing an unknown person’s photo being set on fire, Then dropped into a bucket of cigarette buttes. Followed by three more.
I sometimes see ghosts, but generally just feel their sadness. This was different, an actual curse. I watched again, then realized I shouldn’t. I’d become part of it. As each photo burned I thought, “Shine, Shine, Shine.” I didn’t want the person to die. It was automatic. I wonder how many people added energy to that curse.
#Spooktober #Drabble #Drabbletober #FlashFiction #Horror #HorrorFam #Creepypasta #HyakuMonogatari #百物語
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百物語 Hyaku Monogatari – 5 - (10/05/2023)
There’s a door. It is never where you look, but if you look long enough, you’ll find it. Those who go through it never return and soon all traces of them is erased: records, photos, written references, even memories. Those that tell you what is behind the door are lying. No one returns. I have cleverly kept a record of those that have found it. All that remains are blank entries. The absence of records is the proof they existed. If you wish for nothing, truly nothing, the void, absence, silence, you can find it.
Bye, I found the door
#Spooktober #Drabble #Drabbletober #FlashFiction #Horror #HorrorFam #Creepypasta #HyakuMonogatari #百物語
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百物語 Hyaku Monogatari – 4 - (10/04/2023)
It crawled onto the rocks, tentacles pulling it forward, slime easing its path.
The cliffs kept the deadly sun off and sea spray kept it moist.
A barrier of deadly air kept predators away.
Wind whistled over its gills, fanning proto-lungs, making a thin shrill piping noise. To the distant ear, it sounded like, “Tekeli-li! Teke-li!”
Dipping tentacles into the surging sea, it scooped out fat fish that went into its beaked mouth. Seagulls that thought it easy prey met a similar violent end.
Till the fishers came with nets and spears, saying, “We know how to deal with monsters.”
#Spooktober #Drabble #Drabbletober #FlashFiction #Horror #HorrorFam #Lovecraft #HyakuMonogatari #百物語
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It's day 3 of my drabble-a-day challenge! Here is today's tiny story: https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023-day-3
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@Lapizistik
#SoberOctober full support 👍
#inktober artsy, large participation = a bit random 🤏
#drabbletober 100 words, experimental, very few posts 👍
#spooktober ghosts, pumpkins, lame 👎 -
百物語 Hyaku Monogatari - 3
Yue: “Look, it’s a face in the frost.”
Sister: “Let me see. Let me see! Wow, it is.”
Father stood at the door, holding his head. “Keep it down. I don’t feel good.”
Yue: “It looks just like mom.”
Sister: “It does. It does. It’s mom!”
Dad: “Don’t say her name. That bitch left us. She is gone.” He winced, his fist hitting the door.
Yue: “No, it’s mom! She’s saying something.”
Dad: “Shut up you will join her!”
The two staring intently at the Jack Frost, ignored the threat.
Yue: “She says, the freezer.”
Sister: “Let’s go look.”
#Spooktober #Drabble #Drabbletober #FlashFiction #Horror #HorrorFam #HyakuMonogatari #百物語
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The second drabble of #drabbletober! I'm posting a brand new tiny story each day of October, and here is today's:
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023-day-2
If you'd also like to write and/or share 100-word stories this month, please tag 'em #drabbletober so I can read them :-) -
百物語 Hyaku Monogatari - 2
She had come. In the hills, the full moon shone silver, and the chosen heard her tremulous horn. The butcher’s apprentice, “divorced” woman, and outcast “witch”, raised their heads. Madame Defarge looked up from her knitting. The Jacquerie and Mau Mau listened. The pariah, the scorned, the forgotten, all heard and knew. She had come, the dark messiah their dreams had foretold. Soon all would know her name. Come fire, famine, and blood, they would be heard. Though the gallows and gibbet would be their reward, they would follow her. Hammer, maul, scythe, and sickle. She had come, their mistress.
#Spooktober #Drabble #Drabbletober #FlashFiction #Horror #HorrorFam #HyakuMonogatari #百物語 - 2
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First - 1
She came like a night mist, dew on the counterpane. I left my window open for just that reason. Evelyn, my girlfriend, lover, and wife. A year ago, a fever had laid everyone in the village out, and had entered the castle like a thief stealing my health. When I recovered, the doctor informed me Evelyn had “departed.” Such “sensitive” phrasing. Liar, I’d seen her. At night, I would see her in the fog by our lake. I heard her voice mingled with the sound of night swallows. On the floor laid scattered garlic, as she had asked. My Evelyn.
#Spooktober #Drabble #Drabbletober #FlashFiction #Horror #HorrorFam
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百物語 or Hyaku Monogatari
I invite you to play Hayaku Monogatari with me.
100 short spooky stores. When the last is told they say something will come visiting.
Just include the hashtags
#HyakuMonogatari #百物語
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#Spooktober #Drabble #Drabbletober #FlashFiction #Horror #HorrorFam #wordweavers #writerscoffeeclub #PennedPossibilities #writersofmastodon -
... and here is the first drabble of #drabbletober: https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023-day-1
Feeling somewhat rusty at this 100-word story malarkey! -
... and here is the first drabble of #drabbletober: https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023-day-1
Feeling somewhat rusty at this 100-word story malarkey! -
OK, #WritingCommunity... Drabbletober 2023 is officially go!
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023
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OK, #WritingCommunity... Drabbletober 2023 is officially go!
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/drabbletober-2023
#drabbletober -
Last year, I set myself a challenge: writing, and posting on my blog, a drabble (a story of exactly one hundred words) every day in October. I'm thinking of doing it again this year - anyone else fancy joining in? If so, #drabbletober for all your tagging needs!
Here's a link to my after-the-fact write up of how I felt it helped me last year, and all last October's drabbles: https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/tag/drabbletober22
#Writing #WritingCommunity -
Last year, I set myself a challenge: writing, and posting on my blog, a drabble (a story of exactly one hundred words) every day in October. I'm thinking of doing it again this year - anyone else fancy joining in? If so, #drabbletober for all your tagging needs!
Here's a link to my after-the-fact write up of how I felt it helped me last year, and all last October's drabbles: https://www.elizabethguilt.com/blog/tag/drabbletober22
#Writing #WritingCommunity