In the dark, where you trick or treat.

There’s a witch that wants to eat.

Long hair, white dress.

Don’t come alone or there’ll be a mess.

Creeping, crawling, climbing and chase.

Don’t worry she does not like to waste.

She takes your eyes and peels skin;

No matter what you do, you won’t win.

She sings a song as she eats,

“Oh my lovely, you taste like sweets.”...

There was no going back.There wasn’t another way.

The dead branches swayed their welcome. The old swing beside the mansion creaked woth each swing.

A couple of steps lead me further away from all that i knew.

A prompt decision taken to heart.

My soul burned with fear and excitement for the unknown.

The crows circling me seems to cheer for my foolishness.

For who would be calm in such unfort...

I wasn’t supposed to be scared, I was a big girl, eight years old.

I was ready for my own room, mama said. We painted it together, blue with little white daisies in the corners. I hoped they would brighten up the dark places, I was wrong.

I lay in bed, listening to

the scuttering.

A new sound came, like short nails running over textured glass. My window is textured glass.

I held my breath and cou...

I used to watch horror movies.

When horror movies watch you… it’s a much different feeling…...

The crisp fall air turned cold and bitter as I rounded an unexpected path on a trail I’d hiked a dozen times. The trees seemed to arch in despair, their sparse dead leaves strewn about the forest floor, black and twitching in the wind as if to serve as a warning. The hairs on my back rose in response as my pace slowed and my icy breath thickened like visible spider webs crystallizing before me.

...

She felt the cold, wet fingertips grace her skin. She shivered at the feeling, and was too scared to look. She knew something evil was lurking. As she mustered the courage to open her eyes, so looked to her left. All she could see was darkness. But as she looked a little harder, she was able to make out a strange lengthy figure that had blood running down its entire body. It opened up its mouth an...

The lights went pitch black, and the movie on the big screen started. I heard sound effects coming from all around, I thought. The tap on my shoulder proved me wrong....

She sat alone in a room, everyone was gone. There was a knock at the door.

Who could that be, for everyone was gone? She was about to open the door when the person on the other end, though, opened it first.

A dripping face, scars, chunks of lips and ears missing, an unholy smile that spread from ear to ear.

“Hello.” She— no, it— said with a sharp but ancient voice that cracked at every note, “A...

I stand there, my eyes locked on the black cat.

She meows at something in the window, and I look.

I see a dark shadow rushing towards me and I let out a shriek of terror, and get slammed backward into a bookcase as it crouches over me.

I squint my eyes to see the strange figure peering at me.

“I’ve been feeling so alone, trapped in my mind. I’ve been dying inside, Kyla. I really need help.” It...

_So many years have passed, I’ve stopped keeping track. _

_I’ve waited so long for my true love, my price to rescue me. _

Too late.

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_I’ve slowly withered away._

_My ghostly figure looks down at the hollow shell of my former self. _

_I sit down on the concrete slab near where my body lies in a permanent slumber. _

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_Vines ordained with roses creep up the side of the slab. _

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_Ever since ...