Horror Prompts’ Gillian Church is hosting another horror drabble challenge: 31 prompts for 31 creepy tales throughout March. This time, we can decide on the length of the piece but I’m sticking to the 100-word default.
Can you do it?
The Prompt: Thaw
The Submission: “How th’fuck’d we miss this?!” Dawson growled, shaking his head.
The body contorted into an anguished scream; the eyes were hollow and dead, the fingers that remained clawing for purchase, the skin cracked and flaking. Ice had bleached the corpse a deathly pale blue and the officers were afraid to handle it in case his limbs snapped off.
“C’mon, Chief,” Teddy reasoned. “Y’know this place’s a graveyard until the ice thaws.”
Dawson grumbled, chipping a chunk off the corpse’s calf with a frustrated kick. “That’s th’third one this week! People need to be more careful where they dump their shit!”
What did you think to the prompt for today’s drabble challenge? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church to take part in her Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
Horror Prompts’ Gillian Church is hosting another horror drabble challenge: 31 prompts for 31 creepy tales throughout March. This time, we can decide on the length of the piece but I’m sticking to the 100-word default.
Can you do it?
The Prompt: Fledgling
The Submission: The commander observed the fledgling hunter with a stoic expression. The young one had showed promise in the past but hesitated once the blade was in his hand and the prey was cowering before him.
“Finish it,” he ordered, reading his staff to execute the youngling should he fail to comply.
The youth steeled himself and made a precision strike, spilling the prey’s insides over the cell floor, and the commander relaxed his shoulders. The youngsters were untested, but the bloodsport was undeniably innate. Even the most inexperienced would relish hunting live prey on that desolate mudball known as Earth.
What did you think to the prompt for today’s drabble challenge? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church to take part in her Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
Horror Prompts’ Gillian Church is hosting another horror drabble challenge: 31 prompts for 31 creepy tales throughout March. This time, we can decide on the length of the piece but I’m sticking to the 100-word default.
Can you do it?
The Prompt: Ruminant
The Submission: Iris couldn’t believe her ears; she couldn’t be dead. That was crazy! She still had so much life left to live, and to think she’d be snuffed out by Roger, of all people. But Grandma Beth had greeted her, told her what’s-what, and she’d been dead for fifteen years now.
Dejected, Iris lingered in the house she’d called home, unable to interact with anything or anyone save for a brief chill in the air. When she saw Roger bring another girl home, her rage boiled; in that moment, Iris rejected becoming a mere ruminant and vowed to make him pay.
What did you think to the prompt for today’s drabble challenge? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church to take part in her Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
Horror Prompts’ Gillian Church is hosting another horror drabble challenge: 31 prompts for 31 creepy tales throughout March. This time, we can decide on the length of the piece but I’m sticking to the 100-word default.
Can you do it?
The Prompt: Speech
The Submission: Ted awoke to find himself bound tightly to a chair; barbed wire chewed into his wrists and ankles and a piercing, numb pain throbbed from his left ear. Eyes blurry, he saw he was in a musty, filthy garden shed. An array of rusty tools were spread across the nearby workbench.
The door creaked open and Ted saw his captor enter. Ted tried to speak and half-gagged as a geyser of warm blood burst from his lips and something heavy and leathery dropped from his mouth. As his vision steadied, Ted heaved when he saw it was his severed tongue.
What did you think to the prompt for today’s drabble challenge? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church to take part in her Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
Horror Prompts’ Gillian Church is hosting another horror drabble challenge: 31 prompts for 31 creepy tales throughout March. This time, we can decide on the length of the piece but I’m sticking to the 100-word default.
Can you do it?
The Prompt: Grass
The Submission:
the GRASS keeps growing no one believes me but i swear i cut it everyday and it just GROWS right back i’ve been out there and ran the mower over it again and again and within seconds its back GROWING AND BLOSSOMING right under my feet i even put grass killer down but it just grew thicker i lay in bad last night and could HEAR it growing going now i can HEAR it growing laughing taunting at me even as i dump petrol over it sloshing around my feet and light the match to stop the grass growing evermore
What did you think to the prompt for today’s drabble challenge? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church to take part in her Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
Gillian Church posts Writing Prompts every week on her Horror Prompts Instagram account and I like to take part with a few snippets and pieces of flash fiction.
The Prompt: What did you do to my patient?
The Submission: “Johnson!” Dr. Janisse barked. “What did you do to my patient?!”
“Nothing” the intern blubbered. “He was in regression therapy and begging for his dool, so we brought him his doll.”
Dr. Janisse raised a surprised eyebrow and peered through the viewing glass, where Mr. LeBeau was sat staring at a small porcelain doll. “He’s never mentioned a doll before.”
Johnson nodded solemnly. “He seemed pretty insistent.”
Dr. Janisse rested his forearm on the glass and sighed deeply. Mr. LeBeau was brought to them five years ago, covered head to toe in blood and screaming bloody murder. Five years of therapy, counselling, and even hock treatments and he remained a babbling, incoherent wreck who had no idea of how brutally his mind had snapped.
Mr. LeBeau rocked back and forth in his chair, mumbling to the porcelain doll; its creamy-white cheeks were cracked, its rosy-red pouting lips faded, and its curly blonde locks were hanging in clumps. Suddenly, he gripped the doll tightly around the middle and started ranting; spittle flew from his lips, his teeth gnashed together so hard that he was practically chewing off his bottle lip, and his eyes bulged alarmingly.
“Shit!” Dr. Janisse spat. He pressed the call button to get some security in there but was fascinated by Mr. LeBeau’s sudden outrage. “Where did you say you got the doll from?”
Johnson, unable to tear his eyes away from the guards struggling to wrestle Mr. LeBeau to the ground, answered: “His mother brought it in.”
Dr. Janisse snapped his head around sharply. “His mother?! His mother’s been dead for five years!”
He gazed back through the glass and watched as Mr. LeBeau clawed at the guards, his face bulging with pulsating purple veins, his eyes wide and bloodshot, blood foaming around the remains of his mouth. He leapt at them, clutching and squeezing and ripping, chewing into the flesh of their necks and spraying geysers of blood over the padded walls.
The porcelain doll laid on its side in the corner of the room, watching on with a stoic approval.
What did you think to this week’s writing prompt? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church and Horror Prompts to take part in the Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
Horror Prompts’ Gillian Church is hosting another horror drabble challenge: 31 prompts for 31 creepy tales throughout March. This time, we can decide on the length of the piece but I’m sticking to the 100-word default.
Can you do it?
The Prompt: Teeth
The Submission: Paul sat at the water’s edge, sipping beer, a dull ache in his back. He was about to give up for the day when the line gave a sudden tug. Paul leapt into action and a pike, glistening and glaring, sprung from the water.
Delighted, Paul fumbled with the thirty-inch fish, and barked in pain as teeth, sharp and smooth, stabbed into his flesh. The fish wrenched with a desperate thrash, taking two of Paul’s fingers with it.
As Paul lay on the grass, weeping in agony, the pike lashed its tail and inched its way towards his anguished face…
What did you think to the prompt for today’s drabble challenge? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church to take part in her Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
Horror Prompts’ Gillian Church is hosting another horror drabble challenge: 31 prompts for 31 creepy tales throughout March. This time, we can decide on the length of the piece but I’m sticking to the 100-word default.
Can you do it?
The Prompt: Linen
The Submission: I swept open the cupboard and frantically spilled towels and bedsheets onto the floor, tears running down my trembling red cheeks.
“Oh God, oh Jesus,” I muttered over and over, realisation finally sinking in.
I finally grabbed a handful of linen; I wound it into a bundle to avoid tripping as I made my way downstairs on legs worse than jelly.
His lifeless body stared up at me with those accusing eyes. Bone, jagged and shining white, jutted from his mangled flesh and his head was half-twisted around on his neck.
I unravelled the linen and began wrapping the body.
What did you think to the prompt for today’s drabble challenge? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church to take part in her Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
Horror Prompts’ Gillian Church is hosting another horror drabble challenge: 31 prompts for 31 creepy tales throughout March. This time, we can decide on the length of the piece but I’m sticking to the 100-word default.
Can you do it?
The Prompt: Stubborn
The Submission:
He always was a pig-headed, stubborn brute of a man.
Everything had to be HIS way.
He ALWAYS had to have the last word.
He could NEVER be wrong.
At first, I could accept this; the sex was amazing, after all, and he brought in good money…but none of that matter when you’re constantly belittled.
Accused of everything under the sun, every little word or action or mistake criticised.
Something snapped that morning and I just went for him.
I can’t help but feel relived at the sight of his broken, twitching body lying at the bottom of the stairs.
What did you think to the prompt for today’s drabble challenge? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church to take part in her Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
Horror Prompts’ Gillian Church is hosting another horror drabble challenge: 31 prompts for 31 creepy tales throughout March. This time, we can decide on the length of the piece but I’m sticking to the 100-word default.
Can you do it?
The Prompt: Scooter
The Submission: Sally’s been bangin’ on about getting’ a scooter for her birthday since Christmas. Seven goddamn months of whinin’! It was enough t’drive a man t’drink…or worse. How could I tell her that I couldn’t afford the damn thing? Fuckin’ redundancies; it was all I could do just t’keep a roof over our heads an’ she’s crowin’ about a scooter! Well, I hope she’s fuckin’ happy! I had t’ gut two people to swipe it and I’ll never get the bloodstains out of the paintwork! Wish I could say it’s worth it t’see her smile but, honestly, I just want t’…
What did you think to the prompt for today’s drabble challenge? Did you submit anything for it? Have you ever written any flash fiction before? I’d love to know what you think to my snippets and writing prompts, so feel free to sign up and let me know what you think below or leave a comment on my Instagram page. You can also follow Gillian Church to take part in her Weekly Writing Prompt challenge.
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