“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Whenever an important event would happen in Camilla's life, music would start to play; Although, no one else seemed to hear it. She was relieved when the music was gentle and calming or even upbeat. It was the menacing melodies she had to look …
Tag: Horror
The Spookier Path
“Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.”― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth They had reached a crossroads. To the left there were old dead trees and thorny …
Morbid Curiosity
“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things TW: violence, murder, intrusive thoughts Jacob always thought he had a morbid sense of humor, but when his thoughts become out-of-control murder fantasies, he …
The Turn of the Shrew: A Review of The Haunting of Bly Manor
Disclaimer: The following critique includes spoilers for the new Netflix show The Haunting of Bly Manor, and a minor spoiler for the film Hush. TW: In my review, I use the word “queer” to be an all-encompassing term for LGBTQIA+ people. As a member of the community, I use this term as a reclamation of …
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Telling Fortunes
“No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!”― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw The witch had been telling prophecies for years, it was her main …
Window Screens
“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon She had never been allowed to leave the house. Her parents did everything for her. They bought groceries and picked up her prescriptions. They home schooled her and even let her friends come over, but she could never visit them. They even …
Prompt: The Islands
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”― H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu The Earth is made up of many islands. None of them bigger than what you know as "Texas." And on all of these islands, …
Prompt: Moving to Mars
“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world."― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle In a few hundred years humanity will have no choice but to die or relocate. Choosing the …
Prompt: Sneaking into Church
“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses Carrie hadn't gone to church since she was a kid, but recently, whenever her parents came home on Sunday mornings, they acted really weird. Like eyes-blank, sit-on-the-couch-doing-nothing-for-hours, weird. Once, she had even …
Prompt: Wishing Death
“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man Being just a kid, Charlie never thought that wishing someone dead would do the trick, but after getting grounded for the hundredth time, Charlie couldn't help but wish. He woke up the next morning to his parents lying …
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