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Bolts Bad Day

April 28, 2019 LittleFears13 Comments

“Hit me again, man!”

The old neon lights flickered annoyingly, giving a cheap stroboscopic feeling to every move the barman made, behind the counter. Bolt pushed his empty glass on the bar.

“If I keep the refills coming, you’ll get totally hammered. You know that, right?”

Bolt’s stare back was probably intended as a clear request to shut up and fill his glass, but since the bar tender didn’t show any intention of reaching for the scotch bottle, Bolt mumbled…

“That would be the plan. Unless you suddenly have scruples?”

The barman laughed, and his very white teeth blinked like a Cheshire Cat disco smile.

“And what is the occasion, if I may ask?”

Bolt frowned, still waiting for his booze.

“Remember the red head girl I offered a ride home, last Friday?” The barman nodded. “Well, I gave her a ride, home. I nailed her. “

The bar tender finally reached for the bottle on the shelf.

“Did your wife….?”

“Yup, she found out. I am a terrible liar.”

The man poured him a double and gave him a sympathetic look.

“Oh, Bolt… I am sorry.”

Bolt downed the drink, and handed his glass for another.

“Yup, I’m screwed.”

This week’s Sunday collab was written by Cyranny of Cyranny’s Cove. Pretty sure y’all know Cyranny by now. A long time Fears’erer, prolific blogger and scribbler of words.

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Brass

April 26, 2019 LittleFears4 Comments

The Little Fears presents, the complete story of Brass. The Fears seventh series.

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I lost two episodes during the WordPress 5.0 troubles. If they turn up, I’ll slot them in. Until then, I hope you enjoy Copper and Irons complete story.

Pony Deposit

April 26, 2019 LittleFears29 Comments

“What’s up?” asked Red.

“I got sacked from my job at Equine Bank,” grumbled Horse.

“Aww, I’m sorry to hear that,” said Red. “What happened?”

“Well, some old lady came in and asked me to check her balance,” grumbled Horse. “So I pushed her over.”

Now I know there’s a fear of horses! Equinophobia!

The only fear I have of ponies is that my hands getting sunburned and a pony mistakes my fingers for carrots. Shetland ponies are lovely until they see orange. Then all bets are off!

I wonder what that’s called… Carroponyfingerphobia?

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Pill Theft

April 25, 2019 LittleFears26 Comments

“Could someone give DCI Lily a call,” asked Reala.

“Sure,” replied Lucy. “Something up?”

“I think Sprite just stole my anti-depressants,” grumbled Reala.

“Darn,” said Fuen. “I hope he’s happy with himself.”

I didn’t find any particular phobias of pills, although there’s a lot of people with a fear of swallowing pills. I did discover there’s a medication phobia known as pharmacophobia. A fear of pharmacological treatments. That’s gotta be a bit of a bother to have.

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Crow Call

April 24, 2019 LittleFears12 Comments

The corvid sat in the tree outside. Peering through the window. Crows, ravens, rooks and magpies assembled underneath. They’d peer around the curtains, always looking for the televisions.

He left the curtains open and TV on to see if they’d get bored and leave him alone. They sat outside all night. Watching the static and listening to the white noise. Only moving on, when they’d received their instructions.

For all the Fuen’isms I’ve written on this website, she’s never been in a horror/weird fiction story. Funny thing. As a crow spirit, I have a lot of scope to shift her to the weird fiction side. It’s just never occurred to me to do it before.

Do you know what has occurred to me? Putting her on a t-shirt, and I’ve put her on loads over on my Threadless store. Need a link? littlefears.threadless.com

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Puddle Poke

April 23, 2019 LittleFears14 Comments

“You look upset,” said Pedestrian.

“Well,” sighed Puddle. “My nan just got scammed. 92 years old. They stole her credit card details and everything.”

“Darn,” replied Pedestrian. “Sounds bad!”

“It is,” sighed Puddle. “But hey, for just £25 I’ll teach you how not to get scammed.”

Hah, now that was a damp squib of a story. Do you know what isn’t a damp squib? The Little Fears tees on Threadless. You can nobble one here: littlefears.threadless.com

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Car Door

April 22, 2019 LittleFears31 Comments

“She hasn’t spoken to me all week,” sighed Lucy.

“Oh dear,” replied Yuffie. “What’s happened?”

“She got mad at me because I didn’t open the car door for her,” grumped Lucy.

“Is that all?” pondered Yuffie.

“Yeah,” said Lucy. “I just panicked and swam for the shore…”

If you’re going we’re going to go dark with a pun, we’ll go Lucy dark. If you love our Lucy, you might like to know her portraits available on the Little Fears Etsy store: littlefears.etsy.com

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Dark Paths

April 21, 2019 LittleFears8 Comments

Story by Lauren

How do you overcome the darkness on the path less traveled when there is no one around. You can see that this path is overgrown and not many would dare follow this path.

We all have our deamons to fight, we all have our memories to fall back on, nevertheless what happens when the path less traveled is so dark so overgrown that you can not see your memories or feel the deamons.

You can only feel the darkness seeping into your reality, into your mind and your thoughts.

This week’s Sunday collab was written by Lauren of Life Inside BDSM. A prolific writer of naughtiness. Thank you for the spookems, Lauren!

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Yellow Deer

April 20, 2019 LittleFears27 Comments

“Deer your puns are awful” cried Sprite.

“Hey,” said Deer, “there is a fine British art to telling a good groaner.”

At that moment, the past and the future approached from opposite directions. Their paths crossed right where Deer and Sprite were standing.

The future bumped into the past, they turned to face each other, growled and postured in a grumpy fashion, then walked away up different paths.

“Wow,” said Deer, “that was tense.”

Sprite whined.

Oh, I loved Deer. A callback to her first appearance and one of my fave esoteric puns. She was in a few stories from my very first series of stories (featured in January) and never really came back. Reckon she looks right against a sunburst of Lemon Yellow for this weeks #Colour_Collective.

Her portraits also available on the Little Fears Etsy store: littlefears.etsy.com

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TJOCD

April 19, 2019 LittleFears36 Comments

“What’s wrong now,” sighed Serpent.

“I can’t stop singing Tom Jones songs,” sighed Red. “The doctors said I had TJOCD.”

“What’s that?” asked Serpent.

“Tom Jones Obsessive Compulsive Disorder,” sighed Red.

“Oh dear,” replied Serpent. “Is that common?”

“Well,” grumbled Red. “It’s not unusual…”

Hah! Take that to the face, readers! A Tom Jones pun, direct from the 80’s!

The 1480’s of course… He’s that old right?…

Oh god, so am I…

Please excuse me while I have a minor crisis…

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