Tag: short story

“What is this living nightmare?” cried Meria.

“Exactly what we deserve,” replied Lucy. “Well, you deserve. I’m just on vacation here.”

“You came here by choice?” asked Meria.

“Kind of,” sighed Lucy. “Yuffie sent me here. I killed her ex-girlfriend. Well, I thought I did. Twins are a pain in the arse.”

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Morning came, and Lucy arrived at her usual time. “Where were you last night?” asked Meria.

“Home, of course,” replied Lucy.

“I swear there was someone in my house last night,” cried Meria.

“Funny, I thought someone was standing outside my window last night,” pondered Lucy. “Until I woke up and noticed the handprints on the inside of the glass…”

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The creak of floorboards awoke Meria. The rush of adrenaline had her scrambling for the door before her eyes had fully opened. The door to the next room slammed shut.

“Alexa, turn on the lights,” cried out Meria.

“No,” came the reply.

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“Don’t you think the Sprites dying on this beach are becoming darker somehow,” observed Jelly.

“Sprites used to be so fun,” sighed Cuttle. “I met one the other day that was slaughtered by a crochet hook wielding nutter.”

“Quango, the crochet killer,” chimed in Parrotfish. “A murderer who’d always follow a pattern.”

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“Help,” pleaded another Sprite emerging from the ocean. “I don’t know where I am.”

“The gap between the world of the living and the lands of the dead, yadda, yadda,” replied Cuttle. “What’s the last thing you remember?”

“Two pills,” sighed Sprite. “One would kill me and the other would make me forget my family.”

The trio watched another Sprite sink into the sand. “I had to swallow one,” it cried, “my child would have the other.”

Man, I need to dip back into horror more. I’m sure this idea was in a film or TV program. Possibly an old Twilight Zone? Be darned if I can remember where I’ve seen it though.

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“Well, then she suggested we get another parrotfish in for a threesome,” grumbled Parrotfish.

“Oooh, now I wouldn’t be up for that,” said Jelly.

“Threesomes?” asked Parrotfish.

“Yeah,” sighed Jelly. “If I wanted to disappoint two people at once, I’d have dinner with my parents…”

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“You look sexier than usual today,” observed Parrotfish.

“Yeah, I left my bra at home,” sighed Jelly.

“Well, you look just fine,” replied Parrotfish. “Hey, I noticed the last Sprite that came through had a wireless brazier.”

“Jeez, bras are enough of a pain in the arse, as is,” grumbled Jelly. “Now they need a wi-fi password?”

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“Do you know what’s odd?” asked Spectre. “Yuffie once said you and I are ideas, hopes or dreams of the same person. I’ve met thousands of Sprites, but I’m the only one of me.”

“That is odd,” sighed Sprite. “Do you know what else is odd?”

“Numbers that aren’t divisible by two,” replied Spectre.

They chuckled and looked up the road.

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“You’re thinking about it again,” sighed Sprite. “Walking up the road to the afterlife.”

“Everything ends, man,” said Spectre. “Even ideas like us.”

“Ideas of what?” asked Sprite. “We don’t even know what we are. For all you know we’re a memory of a circus that burned down.”

“Now that would be in-tents,” pondered Spectre.

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