Challenge
October 2024 Drabble Challenge: Spooky
Halloween is upon us. Give me a spooky prose story in exactly 100 words using standard English, punctuation, and spelling. Stretch those flash-fiction claws and rake them across the screen with a gut-wrenching tale of woe and horror.
Please do not tag me, I'll read each entry and select a winner in early November. There is a HUGE CASH PRIZE of two hundred pennies for this amazing competition!
Ravenous
The stench hit first—rotting meat and iron. You crept down the basement stairs, flashlight trembling in your hand. There, in the flickering beam, was the source: a mangled body, limbs twisted at impossible angles, skin peeled back to expose muscle and bone.
A low groan echoed. The corpse moved, eyes snapping open, pupils wide and dark as a midnight abyss. Its mouth stretched into a gory grin, teeth stained with dried blood.
You turned to flee, He's Fast. His hand cold, slick with decay—wrapped around your ankle, yanking you down. It whispered, voice like shattered glass, "Stay… I’m so hungry."
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