Creepy mini- fiction for Halloween mini-contest

[hwango]

There's a monster in my basement. On really quiet nights I can hear its claws clicking on the concrete as it paces back and forth. You might think the sounds were just the furnace, but you'd be wrong.

I worry about it breaking out, coming up here, and eating me. It's definitely the kind of monster that eats people.

At least, it eats the corpses that I throw down there. It snarls at me every time I open the door, though. You'd think it would be more grateful for the food.

Maybe it knows that I'm just fattening it up.

Comments

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Gaaahhhh Hwango... you ARE SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I shall not now be coming to tea! thank you for the invitation tho.

Teehee.

[hwango.livejournal.com]

Nonsense, you'd be perfectly safe! I already have a giant pile of corpses!

...wait, that might not have sounded as reassuring as I thought it would.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

Maybe my monster and your monster could meet...

[gunthersdncemix.livejournal.com]

Just saw this, but it was entertaining. :)

[jlly-coppercorn.livejournal.com]

Love the twist.
And you're twisted. Love that too.

So glad you could join us for Halloween.

[hwango.livejournal.com]

...and we could have a meal with multiple courses? = )

[hwango.livejournal.com]

And yet, for all that twisting, I still have screws loose. = )

[darlinleo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you'd think it would be more grateful! Wonder what the previous tenants fed it? Ick.

Well done, sir.

[fawatson]

Well done!