MARLOWE’S TINY TERRORS NOVEMBER 2023
Tiny Terrifying Tale of the Month
Visiting the doctor. Receptionist, shocked, “Oh, are you still alive?”
Silly Horror Stories I Want To Write Anyway
Thanks to a corrupted bar code installed by sentient AI bent on taking over the world, all purchases bought on Black Friday attain consciousness. At a signal from their AI controller, working through every smart speaker in the land, they all “go bad” in their own special way. Neck massagers tighten murderously. Roombas become ninja-swift trip hazards. And the drones? You don’t want to imagine…
It’s like Terminator masterminded by Amazon. And there’s no return slip.
FearBites: The Twilight of the Exams
Ellis lay, staring at the darkening sky where a full moon laboured up over spindled autumn trees… The others sprawled on coats and car rugs around a makeshift bonfire, its damp, windfall branches spitting and crackling. The leaping flames threw crazed shadows on the abbey’s ruined walls, making them flicker with phantom life.
The abbey’s walls conceal a dark secret, and Ellis is about to wish it had remained hidden.