Lev Ermakov
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).
After buying a strange mirror from an old curio shop, I hung it in my bedroom as a cute aesthetic piece. As I caught my reflection late one night it smiled back at me -I froze, now trapped in the glass I followed the movements of a person who was no longer me.
I reached under the bed to grab a fallen pillow, but as my hand never found the floor, only an seemingly infinite abyss. Suddenly a cold hand grasped mine and started pulling me under, chants of “join us, join us, join us” grew louder until I was fully immersed in the pitch black void.
In the land of I-didn’t-give-it-much-thought, there lived an elephant who was all but distraught; He happily danced without a worry or doubt, refusing to leave any of his emotions out; He and all of his elephant friends, pranced around all day without any ends; They left their tasks, and went out to play, saying they will do it the very next day; Yet that day never came, but they all smiled, saying don’t worry, we aren’t that wild; They felt like they had an inner prestige, afterall, one of their fathers was a liege; They were entitled, not batting an eye, at the chaos and corruption, since they lived in Versailles. But in the land of misery-and-drought, not a single one of these individuals pout; these elephants had time for fun and games, but they decided to toil in flames; not one of them stopped, not one of them docked; you see they all had a vision, a vision of greed, they all wanted their children to succeed; they worked so hard, and the present became unpleasant; yet the day would arrive where their life was all play, while the land of I-didn’t-give-it-much-thought would only dull and decay; so now you make the choice, of whether to work and to toil, or to wait till your fun will murk and all spoil.
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