.15. #WebAuthorsCafe 10/27-11/2: This is Halloween, This Halloween: Share something spooky, any length, new, old, excerpted. Anything goes.
#PennedPossibilities 825 — What are your favorite chilling scenarios to write, and how are you able to accomplish this? Through setting, emotion, dialogue, and / or buildup?
Snip from Konbini Idol
Now that I was standing at the barricade, I could see what had appeared to be snowdrifts were ash. Beyond Shiomi, I could see a man; He wore dull navy workmen’s overalls with a name tag of strange glyphs stitched to it. But what caught my attention was his face, or lack of it. Instead, there was a swirling vortex that seemed to suck the very color and essence out of the surrounding darkness. My consciousness seemed to leach, fragment…
a symphony…
into a cacophonic
tapestry of
nothingness.
I jerked my eyes away, and the fragmented whispers in my mind receded. What I had seen was horrific and utterly beyond my understanding.
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