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Submitted to Contest #275
This doesn’t look like the kind of house that would be haunted. I chose it because it’s modern and bright: all clean lines and full-length windows. No gothic towers, cold stone or dark corners here. I’ve made the place quite cosy since I moved in a few months ago, but the throw rugs and potted plants can’t shake the indefinable sense of… I don’t know what. Melancholy? Restlessness? It was only a few days after I picked up the keys when I started to feel something was off. To begin with, it was nothing more than a feeling – a coldness, an unc...
Submitted to Contest #273
The brass plaque on the door informed me this was the library. I hadn’t been down to this level before, didn’t even realise hell had a library, but this seemed to be the place. I double-checked the note in my pocket. ‘Things can’t go on like this. Meet me in the library, 1pm Tuesday.’ Yes, this was right. I turned the handle and pushed open the heavy wooden door. The room looked as you would expect – much like the rest of hell. Whoever had decorated had gone a bundle on spikes, fire and mahogany. Satan had chosen an aesthetic and stuck to it...
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