Overheard at Table 4: A Few Horrorprompts

 

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#horrorprompt 584 From Beneath You

 

You are sitting in your chair

at dinner time

with your wife, your children, then,

suddenly, from beneath you

hands and arms burst from the floor,

grab you, drag you down,

 

you scream,

 

your family continues eating.

 

 

 

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#horrorprompt 582 Earth

 

The Earth,

a dull dead

husk of ruin,

 

and your fellow human beings

continue lethargic in their

inveterate desiccation,

 

their spiritual decay

is the crumbling of this clay.

 

 

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#horrorprompt 581 Tired

 

She was tired, so tired,

but she couldn’t stop.

 

The thing behind her,

in the shadows, in the dark,

the thing was not tired.

 

Do

not

stop,

 

but her heart,

her muscles, her

bones,

she fell,

she shattered,

 

the untired thing

feasted.

 

 

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#horrorprompt 579 Lull

 

When there was a lull in the fighting,

Jerry turned to Zack, saying,

“If we can just hold out to morning.”

 

No answer.

Jerry looked, saw Zack’s half-gone

face, burnt hair, the blood

 

had been congealed for hours.