Spiders In My Bathtub
Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror
worse than a worm in your apple
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 […]
MoreJust had to bring it up
I was on a road trip with my family, you know. It was late at night and us kids were laying in the back of the station wagon to sleep. The road must have been just paved because it was so smooth and we seemed to just be going up and down, up and down. […]
More24 Carrot dinner
I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 13 years old. It’s more common now, so I don’t get as many, “then what do you eat questions?!”, which is nice. I was starting a new job and was getting to know a co-worker who invited me over one night. She was really excited to try her […]
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Sometimes, it’s not the quiet ones
I was socially awkward in college, but I was in an art program so we all were. There was this girl in a few of my classes who seemed to want to be friends. I talked to her a few times, but she never seemed to listen to what I was saying and kept telling […]
MoreBut what did the spider think?
I 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 prefer coffee
I’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.
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