Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror
I was at home eating edamame, placing the pod in my mouth between my teeth and pulling like a cartoon cat does with a fish. I must’ve been watching a movie because I wasn’t paying much attention. After a few pods, I looked down at the one I had just pulled between my teeth. There […]
MoreI went to go blow my nose. I grabbed a tissue from the box. As I brought the tissue to my nose, a spider fell out of it into the sink. Two thoughts came to my mind: I almost blew my nose with a spider and how many tissue boxes have spiders in them right […]
MoreI’m not a morning person, but it was extra hard to get out of bed after I put my bare foot down onto a live crab. -Janine E.
MoreThe next class was two and a half hours long and I knew I needed something quick to eat before it started. I grabbed a granola bar at a gas station on the way in. I was in a hurry and about to mindlessly take a bite when I dropped something, I don’t even remember […]
MoreOne morning, or possible afternoon, I awoke from a sleep. I was in my bedroom of the apartment we moved to after the hurricane. I had a daybed. It was white. The room was white. The blinds were white. The sun would stream in through the blinds magnifying the whiteness of this room. My memories […]
MoreDEFINITION OF TUB SPIDER noun tub spi·der \ ˈtəb ˈspī-dər \ Tales that create the feeling of said horror.
MoreDefinition of horror, as defined by Merriam Webster noun hor·ror | \ ˈhȯr-ər , ˈhär- \ 1a: painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay, b: intense aversion or repugnance. 2a: the quality of inspiring horror : repulsive, horrible, or dismal quality or character. b: something that inspires horror. 3: horrors plural: a state of extreme apprehension.
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Spiders In My Bathtub 