The Batch of Micro-Spooks! #1
The special edition batch of spooky micro-fictions from all around Substack!
Welcome to the special edition of the Batch! I’ve just got home from my Scotland trip, and it was awesome. More on that in the future posts.
Before we get into recaping the week, I wanted to thank you for commenting on each others posts, sharing them and interacting in the comments. It really fills me with a lot of pride that this little project of mine is truly forming into a community of writers. I don’t want to name individuals because I would 100% forget someone and never forgive myself afterwards.
The first week of Spooktober was a banger! Great stories. Great prompts. Great people!
The regulars here know, that I don’t write stories in the batches anymore, since they’re supposed to highlight the community rather than me. However, a lot of people are doing their best to keep up with every single prompt, and it would be a shame to end their streak.
So for all October, every post will have it’s prompt, even if it’s going to be a non-fiction update!
Let’s kick it of with a story about Haunting. 👻
Also buckle up, this will be a long one.
Today on Microdosing our Spooktober prompt is HAUNTING!
🎃Write a story in 50 words!🎃
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The house grew dark. The kids were in bed, and the Jeffersons put on the Haunting of Hill House. I watched with them for a while; pretty funny show.
When they finally went to sleep. I stretched my ghastly limbs. Another night shift of creaking floors shattered mugs, and smashing doors began.
Sort of like the Haunting of Jefferson House.
Friends
Our first prompt of this week was not yet filled with the air of spookiness. Yet it was one of my favorite prompts we did so far. So the friends we made along the way came from Mercedes Gloria Horton-Young Johnathan Dodson Keith Loser
Spider
Eight-legged monsters and sometimes also friends, came from Grim Flandango olivia s Arnaly Arriaga Blanco Shannon W Haynes svndavn
Necromancy
Raising the dead came from Simone D. Casadei Bernardi Lauren Salas Arnaly Arriaga Blanco Nick Winney Robert Garron Joseph Wiess Tania Tyler 🌿 Sean Thomas McDonnell Scott MacLeod Chris J. Franklin Mea Morrowheart
Asylum
Crazy or not crazy or crazy or insane? All of that by S.L. Stallings P.K Daze Logan the Lobotomizer Jess Mae Koen Mars Feasts and Fables
Void
Stories of deep void came from Kerry Sutherland Kathy Enriquez-Nguyen Sean Archer
Casket
Prepared to be burried in caskets of all sizes came stories from Ashley Felice Tiffany S. Sandy Shaller Snowyteller
Funeral Home
We have visited few funeral directors with Nicole Paton Rolando Andrade Richard Blaisdell and Lia
Thank you all for joining in on this adventure!
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THE PLANET
"Ghosts?" Admiral Kammond asked, puzzled. "Is that what you heard?"
"Voices, sir," replied Sgt. Aluud, "and we heard them all over the planet."
"And you corroborated this?"
"No doubt, sir."
Aluud gazed through the panoptic window of the base when the words calmly formed in his mind, 'I am with you.'
"Sir...I think this planet's alive!"
Thank you for including me!!!! I’m having fun with these prompts! And especially during the spooky season