.14: #WebAuthorsCafe 10/20-10/26: Show us your talent, share a spooky 100-word drabble. (exactly 100 words excluding the title, hashtags and any comments you make.

#百物語 #HyakuMonogatari: 15 Immortality 永遠

Only darkness and silence, except for the tap, tap, tap of Elderkin's held hands. A slow conversation passed from one to the next. A rhythm that kept the emptiness at bay. They shared memories from when there were suns, planets, and even further back, to when life existed. Memories of hunting warm blood and the promise of eternal life.

Now, only the perpetually tormented by a hunger that could no longer be fed remained, along with the tap, tap, tap.

Tap, tap, tap. The Founder said Myrien had uttered rebellion.

Hands let go.

Myrien spun off into entropy's eternal stasis.

Inspired by @HeliaXyana's post:

#Drabble #Horror #Halloween #NMPrompts #NMFic #NMWAC #MicroFiction #TootFic #Vampire #Spooktober #Drabbletober

.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: 13 Kaeru-chan 蛙ちゃん

#Fandom #Lovecraft
#Wss366 #DrabbleTober #Spooktober

“If you hide in the library until after it closes, you’ll hear a #piping: 'Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!'” Kaeru-chan said. It was her contribution to the spooky stories they were exchanging.

No one knew who’d invited her to their party. She smelled of day-old fish, and her face was wrong: pale with round, bulging eyes. Rumors said she had webbed toes.

“They say they're played by worshipers of ancient Nyarlathotep. If you follow the sound to the fourth aisle, you can see them, but you'll never return.”

“How would you know?” a girl asked.

Kaeru just smiled with her round, puckered mouth.

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

#百物語: #HyakuMonogatari 12: Foreign Devil

#Wss366 #MastoPrompt

The devil calmly examined the four students standing outside the pentagram. The #triangular lenses of his glasses reflected their astonished faces.

"I told you this was better than 'Hide and Go Seek by Yourself,'" the leader said.

The boy next to him shyly looked at the girl to his left. "I still would have preferred going to that ghost spot."

The fourth boy finally spoke up. "Who would have believed this would work in Japan? It's so much cooler than Kokkuri-san and easier than Hyaku Monogatari.”

"So, how can I help you?" the devil said in perfect Japanese. He didn’t seem very interested and was looking at his solid gold pocket watch, not the students. “It’s been a while since I could visit your fair land. There are some people I would like to visit while I’m here, so do hurry.”

"Oh, nothing," the leader said. "We're just doing a test of courage. We don't really want to sell our souls."

The devil smiled #amiably. "So funny. I don’t buy souls. Summoning me is enough. Did you really think the foreign Kami would forgive this act of blasphemy?"

He laughed as the shadows crept in.

#NMV366 #Horror #Halloween #Halloween2025

#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

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#Gathering of One #Hundred #Supernatural #Tales

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