The Halloween Project 2021 - Story 5: Six Word Horror

Six word story. Is it possible? Is it real? Oddly enough, it’s true and living in the world. Starting about ten years ago it’s been embraced in many corners, especially in schools where the hope is that every child has a six-word story within them.

So here is the shortest story I have ever written. If you’re game, write one now and send it back to me. But it must be horror. I have had a hundred ideas. I wonder what Stephen King might write.

Bloody carpet. Sidelong glance. They crouched.