Three Short Horror Stories

Nakshatra Londhe

High School Senior

October 2023

Prompt: Write three separate two sentence horror stories that occur in the same universe/same idea (For example: When I smiled, she did not smile back. Something is very wrong with this mirror).

Mommy tells me to never go down into our basement as it is off limits. One day, I decided to venture downwards and saw a body of a child with no arms and legs, screaming “Help me!” I was grabbed thereafter.

After working a hard day, I came home to see my girlfriend cradling our child. I didn’t know which was more frightening, seeing my dead girlfriend and stillborn child, or knowing that someone broke into my apartment to place them there.

The longer I wore it the more it grew on me. She had such soft and pretty skin.