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Weekly Contest #376
Urgitt was bored. Not bored as in Rainy-Day-Nothing-to-Do bored, but Bored-With-My-Whole-Fucking-Existence bored. He actually had plenty to occupy his time. Scraping together enough food to sustain his hulking, eldritch body, while NOT eating the child in whose closet one resided, was a full-time job in itself, but also having to maintain a fine balance of fear in that child’s mind, with enough shame about that fear, was mentally very taxing. There needed to be just enough doubt in the mind of the boy (his name was Jeff) as to Urgitt’s exi...
Weekly Contest #372
Jessy had what was surely the most embarrassing phobia ever. To have a debilitating fear of spiders, say, or snakes, or elevators, was pretty commonplace. It was understandable. Fear of clowns, mimes, or dolls was not unusual, and certainly reasonable, given the plethora of movies about murderous clowns or possessed dolls. But Jessy’s great, crippling, (and embarrassing) fear was .... pumpkins. Cucurbitophobia. She had an overwhelming, irrational fear of benign, silly-looking round fruits, that as autumn approached, were absolutely everywh...
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