Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror
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 […]
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 […]
MoreI 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 […]
MoreI 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 […]
MoreWe 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 […]
MoreWhere 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 […]
MoreYou know how roaches* scurry to a dark place when the light gets flicked on? That dark place was up my pant leg. -Garry M. *This was in Florida, by the way. This “roach” was a palmetto bug, which can be the size of your thumb.
MoreGoing to bed, late on a weeknight, the slender snake showed their front half to me from under the bed. I froze, stared at it. I closed the door to the bedroom. Panic overtook my useless arms and legs. I open the door again and see its tail move through the closet opening, quickly losing […]
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Spiders In My Bathtub 