.12. #WebAuthorsCafe 10/06-10/12: Do you plan to write anything spooky this month? If so, can you give us a sneak peek?

Lots. I write lots and lots of spooky stories all the time and plan to do a bunch this month.

Follow #HyakuMonogatari for short spookies.

I also write for #Spooktober #Drabbletober and #百物語

[Note 1] Feel free to join in #Drabbletober (A spooky 100-word story a day.)
[Note 2] Or join in on #HayakuMongogatari. Number your submissions one higher than the last. If we reach 100, a spook is supposed to appear. An internet #youkai. Maybe Ernest Hemingway

#NMWAC #NMPrompts

#百物語 #HyakuMonogatari: 14 Smile 微笑

#Fandom #AlfredHitchcock #Psycho
#DrabbleTober #Spooktober
#SundayLit (#Happy & #Sad) #Wss366 #WordWeavers 10.5 — Antagonist sadness?

A smile touched his lips, like a frost bloom on iron-hard ground: brittle, cold, and easily erased.

His eyes focused on the decaying Victorian on the hill. Mother would be so proud of his cleverness.

She had been so upset when the sheriff came by to ask questions about the abandoned car on Ashcreek Lane. Her shrill voice—a searing, shrieking wind, orphaned sparrows #piping under eaves, and the whistle of a willow cane—blew the crystal away.

But he was cleverer now. His eyes followed the bubbles emerging from the muddy bog, and with them, a full smile welled.

[Note 1] Feel free to join in #Drabbletober (A spooky 100-word story a day.)
[Note 2] Or join in on #HayakuMongogatari. Number your submissions one higher than the last. If we reach 100, a spook is supposed to appear. An internet #youkai. Maybe the muskrat.
[Note 3] Image from Psycho, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

#NMV366 #Drabble #Horror #Halloween #Hitchcock #NMWW #NMPrompts #NMSL #MicroFiction #TootFic

#百物語: #HyakuMonogatari: 11 #Square Peg

#Wss366 #Drabbletober #Spooktober

“Honey, that looks like a grave except it’s square.”

“Yep, exactly three by three feet and ten feet deep.”

“Wow. Why our backyard?”

“No one can see me digging. I’ll plant hydrangeas in it when I’m done.”

“Ten feet is awful deep.”

“I wouldn’t want anything sticking out the top. Except for the hydrangeas. Ha, ha. And before you ask why hydrangeas, they were on sale at Sky Nursery.”

“I don’t get it. Why here? Why so deep, and why square?”

Thump.

“Respect. You always loved blue and complained that you were a square peg forced into a round hole.”

[Note 1] Feel free to join in Drabbletober (A spooky 100-word story a day.)
[Note 2] Or join in on #HayakuMongogatari. Number your submissions one higher than the last. If we reach 100, a spook is supposed to appear. An internet #youkai. Maybe Nichol will return to us.

#NMV366 #Drabble #Horror #Halloween #MicroFiction #TootFic