These Deadly Curses Showcase – The Midnight Society

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October 31, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: Twin Curses by Sandra Proudman

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! Twin Curses by Sandra Proudman The little brats I was babysitting sang, “Don’t step on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back…” They weren’t avoiding the cracks on the sidewalk but stepping straight on them and I imagined their poor mom, Jess, aching and grabbing at her back every single time their terrible littl[...]

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October 30, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: This guy by Mary Lamphere

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! This Guy by Mary Lamphere She couldn’t let it go. Let him go. Sure, he’d served his purpose. Quite nicely, indeed. Emily had selected well, her gift helping her to divine the perfect vessel. So why the nagging doubt? This one had seemed different from the beginning; their ‘meet cute’ actually a cute meet. She’d been dr[...]

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October 29, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: The Curse of the Witch’s Daughter by Josh Davis

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! THE CURSE OF THE WITCH’S DAUGHTER BY JOSH DAVIS Mom came home just after lunch with a car full of coffins. We were eagerly awaiting her return, me and Willa, my five year old sister. We sprinted out the door before she had a chance to turn off the engine. My dad followed, slower. “Can we see them? Can we see them?” we sho[...]

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October 28, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: soulmates by Jena Brown

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! Soulmates by Jena Brown I wait in the alley, tucked in the shadows. My stomach roils as rotting vegetables and decomposing cardboard wrap me in their stench. But I stay, choking down the bile crawling up my throat, swallowing the nausea churning in my guts, eyes stinging with hope that you got my note and will come. The cubicle ne[...]

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October 27, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: Dorian by Annalise Sullivan

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! DORIAN BY ANNALISE SULLIVAN Dorian by artist Annalise Sullivan About the Creator Annalise Sullivan is a Los Angeles based illustrator, author, and aspiring aesthete. Driven by a sympathetic curiosity towards the monstrous, she tells heartfelt stories about the dreadful in all of us. Her art is inspired by myth, magic, fashi[...]

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October 26, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: The Fall of the Tower of Babel by Andy Grieser

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! The Fall of the Tower of Babel by Andy Grieser “I am,” he said after a swig of brown ale, “cursed.” She laughed politely, and he felt a twinge. The bar was nice. The woman in front of him was nicer. When she bent to retrieve a bottle from under the bar, he looked away. He would do worse to her tonight than staring. He[...]

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October 25, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: Talabaster by Zebib K. A.

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! TALABASTER BY ZEBIB K. A. She was 7 years old when she first lashed out because of the curse, pushing Diane Cleaver down from the top of the red, green and blue jungle gym in the neighborhood park. Tallie, short for Talabaster (a name devised by her mother, probably under the prickly, mind-altering influence of that same cur[...]

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October 24, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: The Blade of Briars by Cait Greer

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! The Blade of Briars by Cait Greer “You don’t need a sword.” “I absolutely need a sword! Every good gay needs a sword!” Kensy ran her hand over the top of the glass display case, wishing it was actually the sword inside. “I mean, just look at it!” Alex sighed, knowing where this was going. “I am. It’s gorgeous,[...]

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October 23, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: Less Than Ashes by Nina Nouwens

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! Less Than Ashes by Nina Nouwens Less than Ashes It had been three weeks since they burned Eris at the stake. Just long enough for people to stop talking about it; for my baby sister’s name to fall out of the mouths of the kingdom, the horrifying townspeople that condemned her, spit on her, came to watch her die and laug[...]

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October 22, 2021

#SpookyShowcase: Sing Sweet by Tiffany Sanerd

Welcome to the 9th annual #SpookyShowcase, a Halloween artist and author showcase. A full schedule of submissions can be found here so you don't miss a single entry for THESE DEADLY CURSES. Now, on to today's submission! Sing Sweet by Tiffany Sanerd “Sing sweet,” Ma would say, and I’d stand from my stool in the corner and sing ethereal through the gaps in my teeth. Ma would look for the man that would cry, sit on his lap, and dry his tears with her bosom. “Sentimental gents is generous gents,” she’d tell me afterward, blowing smoke out a[...]