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Submitted to Contest #272
I'm not like other men,’ said Dan. ‘I’m not even like other werewolves.’ ‘I don’t understand Mr Shaffer,’ the psychiatrist shuffled his papers and coughed. ‘…like other werewolves. There is no such thing as a werewolf or lycanthrope as it’s really called. It exists only in myths and legends. Please explain further.’ ‘I can do better than that,’ Dan was slowly sipping a blended cappuccino laced with sugary hazelnut syrup. ‘I can show you.’He licked some syrup off his designer stubble and bared his teeth. They seemed to be growing as he spoke....
Submitted to Contest #186
‘You know that thing.’ ‘What thing?’ ‘That big thing. The silver one.’ ‘No.’ ‘In the kitchen.’ ‘No.’ ‘It sits over the cooker.’ ‘Oh, that silver thing. The cooker hood. Yes.’ ‘Well, do you think it removes the smell of cooking?’ ‘What else is it there for?’ ‘Apparently to remove smells, grease and smoke…’ ‘What are you getting at?’ ‘I’m just wondering how efficiently it would remove the smell of…’ ‘You’ve done something haven’t you.’ ‘No I haven’t. Not yet anyway. I’m just thinking.’ ‘I know what your thinking means. It means you’re up to so...
Submitted to Contest #109
It’s not every day you stumble across a dead body. Actually, in my case it’s probably about once a week, but then I’m a vampire hunter so it’s my job. In this case, I literally stumbled across her. Tripped over her in the park where he’d left her and fell flat on my face. I say he because they usually are - the vampires not the victims. She was so pale with no visible injuries apart from the tell-tale two red marks on her neck. I knew what I had to do next. Find the killer before he found his next victim. In legend, the...
Submitted to Contest #100
July 2019 ‘So you had just started telling me Stan, whatever happened to Aunt Ada? She seemed so fit for 93.’ ‘She was. Good strong bones with plenty of meat still on them. You know how old people often get really skinny. Lose all muscle tone. But not Ada. She went to Pilates twice a week, right up until she was almost ninety. And she played tennis at Wimbledon when she was in her twenties. Hockey too. Taught PE at the local convent school. Received an MBE for services to sport after she retired.’ ‘Wow, she sounds like a remarkable lady,’ Je...
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