Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror
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 […]
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 […]
MoreI had toyed with the idea of collecting these stories, these Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror, for awhile. They are almost like urban legends, except these are things that have actually happened. I know this because I have personally collected these stories from people I know. One night, I noticed that the spider that had […]
MoreI was raised in the country so walking barefoot outside was just normal. One summer day, I was outside with my dog. One of her pastimes was chasing lizards. She never caught one, but it was always funny to watch. This particular afternoon, she was in pursuit of a deep almost purple colored one. I […]
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