Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror
My co-worker got into an accident today. It wasn’t bad, just enough to set off the air bag. He was in the van we got from Florida. Before we got a hold of it, it had been abandoned and became infested with rats. Well, when that airbag activated, it launched all those years of rat […]
MoreI’ll come right out and say it: even though I am an animal lover, moths are not high on my list. But in my defense, there is a story here. Years ago, when we came back from a family vacation in Sweden, we noticed when we finally collapsed on the couch after unpacking the family […]
MoreYou know where this is going, don’t you? Well, I’m not going to tell the story, but I will impart the lesson: If you ever find yourself with a bug in your ear, avoid the impulse to face that ear downward and try to shake it out. A bug’s instinct when in a dark place […]
MoreOk, here’s a real-life thing that happened to me. I went to this dive bar in Tucson called The Green Dolphin (it’s gone). I ordered a glass of Coors, took the first pull, and felt something wiggling against my front teeth. Reach in my mouth and pull out a live cockroach. I take it up […]
MoreI don’t remember when it happened, but it was cold, I know that. I was sleeping. My hair was long at the time and I had it in a sloppy pile on top of my head. As I slept, I kept feeling something. I didn’t want to wake up, so I tried to convince myself […]
MoreOut at the farm, you’ll get just about every kinda critter in your house. One night, laying in bed, I felt this, I don’t know, kind of rustling on my neck. I thought maybe it was a tick. I reached up to brush it off, but I wasn’t sure what I was feeling. I shot […]
MoreI awoke to a skittering across my back. After jumping around and swatting at my back, I noticed the strange quality of my cat’s insistent meow. She had caught something and was proud of it. I just knew it. I tore apart the room to find it and sure enough, there was a mouse cowering […]
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Spiders In My Bathtub 