Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror
Creepy Crawly
Mousy Brown Hair
I 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 […]
MoreStrange Bedfellows
Out 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 […]
MoreOne is Enough
I 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 […]
MoreNo Thanks for Dropping By
I was visiting my parents with my new puppy. The little bundle of fur wasn’t allowed anywhere except the basement until she was potty trained.Now, this wasn’t a finished basement. It was a giant cement room with bare rafters for a ceiling and piles of projects yet to be finished staked in every corner. There […]
MoreDon’t Bee Like That
I am not a fan of bees. Not anymore. My grandfather kept bees and I never had an issue besides occasionally one stuck in my hair. This time, though, one flew up my nose. It was on a tea towel and I flung the towel up to try to get the bee off. The bee flew […]
MoreBats in the Belfry, among other places
We were at the farm house. That’s what we called it at least, because that’s what it was, but it was more like a log cabin. Us girls would sleep up in the attic. One night I awoke to my older sister shrieking. She was running around, shaking her head, and waving her hands. It […]
MoreWhat Kind of Tea Did You Say This Was?
Where I live, we have these ringneck snakes. In the summer, their babies would be everywhere. These are tiny little things; they look like a worm on steroids. You’ll find them in just about every crevice. One time I saw one working its way up the grooves of the brick wall and I thought, “How […]
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