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Write about a mysterious figure in one’s neighborhood.

Posted in Horror on Oct 26, 2022

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“The Abandoned house” by Olwethu Ntimbane

Submitted to Contest #102

The shingles were dark grey and the whole house seemed like it was a living horror movie. It's windows draped with spiderwebs and the glass had a thick permanent mist on it that reminded us of a fall leaf. The tree's gave an eerier feel to the house. It had been abandoned for almost thirty years. The old oak wood floor boards creeked when wind travelled on it and the wood seemed like it would collapse under the weight of a cat. The chimeny had moss on it from the moisture and dirt that had built up in the woods around the house and it s...

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“Marked” by Elle S

Submitted to Contest #102

Norwool Town, 2004 Tony's sister, Berka, regarded him as though he had just grown a second head. Her quick, small eyes surveyed his face attentively for a long time. He felt foolish, but he was not delusional. He wished that Berka would stop looking at him like that. Finally, Berka stood up, not removing her gaze from his face. "Well, you appear to be genuinely distressed," she noted. Berka would know. The two of them had a long history of playing practical jokes on each other. Tony had his fair share of success in throwing her into wild s...

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“Plastic Field” by Robert Ribbern

Submitted to Contest #102

Nights have been hard for me as of late. As my eyes closed, a few moments later it’ll buckle right on up, wide awake, such is a curse of growing older. I have been living in this town ever since I can remember, too long some might say. The longer you stay in a place, they said, the more you’ll get used to it, understand it. But I reckon, stay too long and the less and less you understand. I remember the summer of ‘45, back when the town was less crowded, back when I could make sense of everything and all. Used to love running around by the c...

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“The Gossip Train” by Samantha Daleo

Submitted to Contest #102

Olivia sat, barely awake, watching her cartoons. It was early and she was nervous about starting the seventh grade. Her childhood cartoons were making her giggle, as always, and the banana pancakes her mom made felt like a familiar warm hug. She was almost feeling brave enough to conquer her fears until her mom, yapping away on the phone, turned the volume down on the TV, because she couldn’t hear her gossip well enough. Now Olivia was left alone with her own thoughts, and all of her fears of her first day came rushing back. What if she di...

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“Two Stories Down” by Elizabeth Maxson

Submitted to Contest #102

“Boo Radley?”“Too isolated.”“Norman Bates?”“Too crazy.”“Miss Haversham?”“Too vengeful.”“Faulkner’s Emily?”“Wasn’t she a necrophiliac?”“Depends on your reading of the last scene in the attic.”“Then no.”“Gollum…the Grinch…Yoda…Willy Wonka?” My frustrations were starting to sarcastically seep into my responses. I had been thinking for about twenty minutes, but I couldn’t come up with a comparison to help Mira help identify the mysterious recluse who had moved in to the apartment below hers.”“Dina.” Mira’s agitation was palpable. She first ...

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“The House on the Corner” by Barbara Burgess

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The house on the corner was not always bright buttercup yellow. Once there were just plain red bricks. Then someone put up cladding and sprayed it grey.During the time I lived on the street, the occupier of the house on the corner, a tall slim man in his early forties, began to cover the outside walls with bright buttercup yellow paint.I say began, because the tall slim man took some time, and bits right at the top in the eves were left grey. The tall, slim man had a long ladder and reached out with the paintbrush as far as he could manage. ...

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“The Watchman” by Sasan Sedighi

Submitted to Contest #102

It was the third time in a row Martin saw the man. A stranger that didn’t belong to that small community. First, he saw him at the local news agency, wearing a dark suit and tie, browsing the magazines. Then, he picked up a camping and caravan magazine, The RV Great Escape, and casually flipped through the pages. The man’s dress and demeanor didn’t match with a nature lover. He was a city born and bred person who knew nothing about nature, camping, and so RVs. He looked like a law enforcement agent, an undercover police detective, or FBI age...

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“I Saw Something Weird in the Old Barn” by Teresa Renton

Submitted to Contest #102

She ignored the voices outside her window, taunting at first, then riddled with malice as she continued to ignore them. Click click clackety-clack went her needles as yarn, needle, and finger fused into one rhythmic dance. I was standing before this charming cottage, wondering whether I should intervene. To pass by would be the simpler option, however a sense of moral duty prevented me from doing so. Through the window, behind lace curtains, sat a silhouette of a lady knitting. The cottage was a vast improvement on the old run-down barn th...

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“The Figure In The Streets Of Oaktrunk” by Alex Popa

Submitted to Contest #102

This story starts in the quaint little town of Oaktrunk. The residents of Oaktrunk were mystical and extremely magical creatures, such as: Elves, Gnomes, Forest Pixies and Rock Pixies.They used to live in harmony until the gnomes and elves turned against their supposed friends and attacked the pixies, leading to the extinction of pixies.Until now!You walk into the town of Oaktrunk and look around to what used to be a quaint town and now looks like a earthquake had repeatedly hit. There were cracks in the houses and a large crack down the mid...

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“The Thing” by Ema Fancher

Submitted to Contest #102

Summer vacation ended and mother nature knew it. Rain dripped like a leaky faucet from the grey sky. The drops soothed my sunburnt skin as I parked my bike outside the red-bricked school. Usually, the yard teemed with students who refused to enter the stygian halls until the absolute last minute. Now, I saw the bright green grass completely devoid of teenage debauchery. I choked it up to the rain and gloom. Sure enough, soon as I entered the foyer, I found every living youth in the county reconnecting with their friends. I scanned the sea o...

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“Cul-de-sac Blues” by Ben Rounds

Submitted to Contest #102

“Lindsey… Lindsey! Can you hear me?”“Of course I can hear you, Betty, why are you whispering though? Are you okay?”“Someone came tearing through the cul-de-sac on a bicycle, or a motorcycle... or something, a minute ago, and just now I saw someone outside your house!”“Oh, my… okay dearie. Well, thanks for calling, I’ll have Frank take a look.”“You better, could be a murderer. I saw on CNN how-”“Frank!”“What, what? I just laid down.”“Betty’s stalking again.”“Oh sweet heavens... Well; least she warned ya’ this tim...

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“Opportunities: They can shape your heart” by Chacha Jaramillo

Submitted to Contest #102

It was unexpected to have an early summer season. The misty foggy mist alerted the early deer foraging the unusual stopping by travellers on their way to reality. Mona and Aaron, always enjoyed the early morning walks through the wilderness hat their Muskoka woods innocently brought them together. They met thru a king of a meeting site. Aaron a music writer and composer, met Mona through a close friend that introduced Aaron at a Christmas party. At the time, they just introduced themselves as usual, drank a couple of drinks together, he norm...

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“KUMARS GHOST” by Swapnil Kamble

Submitted to Contest #102

It had been raining for the last two weekends consistently. That night electricity in the chawl went off. It had been two days since the electricity went off. Chawl slept into the darkness conundrum. It was a pitch-dark night. The chirping of birds and the sound of wall clock tickling heard in the room. Night kites were whistling and chirping also heard. Frogs cloaking sound also mixed into it. Perspiration rolled over the body. A dark cloud hovered overnight. No signal of electricity arrival was to be seen. But still, there is a hope whic...

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“A Mysterious Figure” by Kir Fowler

Submitted to Contest #102

I blew out a puff of air that made my bangs fly up and then take their place again, impeding my vision. I'd been sitting at my window staring down at the park and street view. Lately, there had been reports of a teenage male around sixteen wandering the streets at night. But anytime someone tried to talk to him, to tell him to go home, he would disappear. I'd been hoping to see him tonight. I looked over at my clock, 12:45am. I looked out at the street. It was a suburb so there were pretty two-car garage houses with their automatic porch lig...

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“Not Who We Thought She Was” by Samantha Brooks

Submitted to Contest #102

TW: Mentions death/murderI won't ever forget Winnie Baumann.It was the summer of '92, I was thirteen at the time. Winnie Baumann just moved into the big, yellow bricked home three houses down from mine.She was a small, plump old lady, not even reaching my 5'4 frame. With grey hair, and beady brown eyes hidden behind thick brown glasses, I'd guess she was well into her sixties, though you'd never know with how energized she was all the time.There was always a smile on her face, and she greeted the new neighbours like they were already her fri...

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