Tiny Tales of Everyday Horror
My co-worker got into an accident today. It wasn’t bad, just enough to set off the air bag. He was in the van we got from Florida. Before we got a hold of it, it had been abandoned and became infested with rats. Well, when that airbag activated, it launched all those years of rat […]
MoreI’ll come right out and say it: even though I am an animal lover, moths are not high on my list. But in my defense, there is a story here. Years ago, when we came back from a family vacation in Sweden, we noticed when we finally collapsed on the couch after unpacking the family […]
MoreA co-worker told me a story of how her dad grabbed super glue instead of eye drops. It has made me extra vigilant any time I use them. That, however, did not stop me from using Clearasil to brush my teeth that time we were trying to use up the travel tubes of toothpaste. As […]
MoreI was at a hotel for a writers’ conference when the elevator stopped working. Down on the second floor, we could hear the screams coming from all the way on the seventh. It was the author Harlan Ellison, of all people. He was stuck in that elevator alone and in the dark for almost an […]
MoreYou know where this is going, don’t you? Well, I’m not going to tell the story, but I will impart the lesson: If you ever find yourself with a bug in your ear, avoid the impulse to face that ear downward and try to shake it out. A bug’s instinct when in a dark place […]
MoreI had found the waterfall. It was the highlight of my trip to Kyoto. It had taken too long, though. My phone was quickly dying, as the sun sank lower in the sky. I tried to remember the path back to the main road. I tried to call to mind the location of the nearest […]
MoreOk, here’s a real-life thing that happened to me. I went to this dive bar in Tucson called The Green Dolphin (it’s gone). I ordered a glass of Coors, took the first pull, and felt something wiggling against my front teeth. Reach in my mouth and pull out a live cockroach. I take it up […]
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Spiders In My Bathtub 